Lesson 5 Objectives
Upon completion of this lesson, you should be able to:
- Recognize the case-control study design, and settings where it is useful
- Apply different methods for defining exposures
- Differentiate between direct and indirect methods for measuring exposure
- Be familiar with sources to use for defining cases
- Create the appropriate 2x2 table and calculate an odds ratio for data from a case-control study
- Distinguish between matching and non-matching methods to select controls