PUBH 8035 EPIDEMOLOGY:DECODING THE SCIENCE OF PUBLIC HEALTH

• Question 1
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Selection bias is most likely to occur in which type of study?

Selected d.
Answer: Both retrospectiv e cohort and case-
control studies

• Question 2
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Interview er/recording bias can occur in

Selected d.
Answer: Any type of epidemiologic
study

• Question 3
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If a subjects’ willing ness to participate is related to both their exposure status and
disease status, the resulting bias is known as

Selected c.
Answer: Self-selection
bias

• Question 4
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Non-differential misclassification tends to bias study results in which direction?

Selected a.
Answer: Towards the
null

• Question 5
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Loss to follow-up bias is an important concern in which type of epidemiologic study?

Selected d.
Answer: Both cohort and
experimental studies

• Question 6
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Which of the following is a method for controlling confounding in the analys is
phase only of a study?

Selected b.
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Answer: Stratificati
on

• Question 7
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An analytic method that simultaneous ly adjusts for several variables (confounders)
is called:

Selected a.
Answer: Multivariate
modeling

• Question 8
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For a variable to be a confounder, it must be:

Selected c.
Answer: Both of the
abov e

• Question 9
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A study design method to control confounding involving the selection of study
subjects so that potential confounders are distributed identically is called:

Selected c.
Answer: Matchi
ng

• Question 10
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Residual confounding can result from:

Selected d.
Answer: All of the
above

• Question 11
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When chance, bias, and confounding have been ruled out as alternativ e
explanations for an association, we may conclude that the association is causal.

Selected Fals
Answer: e
• Question 12
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When the magnitu de of the associatio n betw ee n an expos u re and diseas e is

chang ed or modified by a third variable, this is known as:

Selected c.
Answer: Effect
modification

• Question 13
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Effect modification is an arbitrary statistical phenomenon that should be controlled
for and minimized in an analysis.

Selected Fals
Answer: e
• Question 14
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In effect modification, it is possible to have a relative risk associated with both
factors that is larger than the product of the relative risk associated with each factor
alone.

Selected Tru
Answer: e
• Question 15
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Effect modification is evaluated in stratified analys es throug h:

Selected d.
Answer: All of the
above