Students will be required to undertake ONE piece of summative assessment for this module:

One 60 minute short answer examination, weighted at 100% (assessing all LO's)

Additional Assessment Details (include formative feedback / assessment):
Formative assessment will be given in the form of group tutorials and student will have the opportunity to practice exam questions

This module aims to enable you to understand and use different types of data and sampling techniques, plus the calculation, analysis and interpretation of relevant data using a variety of statistical techniques for a range of public health epidemiological studies.
You will critically and analytically study issues that are relevant to the basic concepts and methods of both statistics and epidemiology.

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities: (36 hours)
24 hours lectures
12 hours group work

Guided Independent Study: (114 hours)
54 hours preparation for the examination (including practice of exam questions)
60 hours reading and researching

SPSS

Bonita R, Beaglehole R, Kjellsrom T (2006). Basic epidemiology. WHO Geneva 2006, 2nd ed. ISBN: 9 789241 547 079 This book can either be purchased in paper form, or downloaded free of charge as a PDF file from: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2006/9241547073_eng.pdf

Campbell M (2009). Statistics at square one. Wiley-Blackwell, 11th ed. ISBN: 978-1405191005

Saracci, R (2010). A very short introduction. Oxford University Press . ISBN: 9780199543335

Stewart A (2010). Basic statistics and epidemiology: a practical guide. Radcliffe Publishing, 3rd ed. ISBN: 978 18461 94115