CONCEPTS OF MEASUREMENT IN MEDICAL PRACTICE:
1. Central tendency, normal distribution, variability 2. Probability 3. Incidence vs prevalence 4. Case fatality 5. Survival rate vs mortality rate 6. Relative risk, odds ratio, attributable risk 7. Sensitivity vs specificity of lab tests 8. Positive vs negative predictive values of lab tests
STUDY DESIGN, INTERPRETATION OF THE MEDICAL LITERATURE:
1. Cohort vs case control study (prospective vs retrospective) 2. Clinical trials vs community intervention trials 3. Cross-sectional case series 4. Community surveys 5. Subject eligibility and sampling 6. Sample size, randomize, self-select, and systematic assignment 7. Outcome assessment 8. Validity vs Reliability
STATISTICAL INFERENCE, INTERPRETATION OF THE MEDICAL LITERATURE:
1. Hypothesis generation and testing 2. t-test, analysis of variance, Chi squared 3. Statistical significance (p < .05 vs p < 0.01) 4. Type I vs type II error 5. Statistical power 6. Confidence intervals