The first week will focus on logistic regression, and the second on analysing longitudinal data. The course makes use of the Stata package throughout. The topics to be covered will include:

• Measures of disease frequency and exposure effects
• Confounding and interaction
• Classical methods of analysis for cohort studies
• Classical methods of analysis for case-control studies
• Likelihood
• Unconditional logistic regression
• Poisson regression for cohort studies
• Cox proportional hazards regression
• Conditional logistic regression for case-control studies
• Clustering of data in epidemiological studies
• Strategies of analysis

Comprehensive course notes will be given to participants at the beginning of the course.

There is no formal assessment, but at the conclusion of the course, a Certificate of Attendance will be provided on request. Approximately 45 participants will be accepted.