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Assignment:
Why or why not are the majority of Hill's criteria difficult to apply to chronic disease epidemiology? Please be specific in your discussion of each of Hill's criteria.
Describe the three different types of systematic error that could occur in epidemiologic studies.
Explain how internal and external validity are often at odds with one another. (hint: use how study designs are designed to produce one or the other)
Describe how to limit selection and information bias in a PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY.
You are conducting a case-control study. You are interested to know whether people who are pre- diabetic have a greater odds of consuming sugar drinks than those who are not pre-diabetic.
1) From where can you recruit your cases? From where your controls?
2) How does this recruitment strategy limit selection bias?
3) In addition, how do you ask your survey questions to limit information bias? And lastly:
4) what is at least one confounder that should be considered by the researchers, and why?