BMCI '06

Outline of Topics: Returning DCI/BMCI Teachers

  • Estimating sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic screening (e.g. cancer) and surveillance (e.g. bioterror) tests
  • Modeling an infectious disease outbreak
  • Bias in observational studies (population stratification in genetic association studies)
  • Estimating a gene-environment interaction effect in case-control studies
  • Modeling allele-sharing along a chromosome in pairs of affected relatives
    Last updated: June 9, 2006