Disease Detectives B/C

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Re: Disease Detectives B/C

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The Disease Detectives Wiki is always a good place to start, as is the event page on soinc.org. Basically, this event focuses on epidemiology, so you should be able to examine various aspects of how diseases spread, etc. Can't say I've done this event myself, but plenty of people who have contributed to the Disease Detectives Wiki, and you can learn a lot from it.
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Flavorflav wrote:Maybe 25% of the teams can really handle the math we already had, in my experience. Now we have a bunch more math, so this year should be interesting.
Indeed so ;)
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3141592653589792 wrote:I do NOT Understand this event. Can someone help me? :D
Try taking a look at the 2014 training PowerPoint on the national website (link).
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Infinity Flat wrote:
3141592653589792 wrote:I do NOT Understand this event. Can someone help me? :D
Try taking a look at the 2014 training PowerPoint on the national website (link).
I am sorry, but the link does not seem to work. Can you please check if it is updated? :?:
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Re: Disease Detectives B/C

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3141592653589792 wrote:
Infinity Flat wrote:
3141592653589792 wrote:I do NOT Understand this event. Can someone help me? :D
Try taking a look at the 2014 training PowerPoint on the national website (link).
I am sorry, but the link does not seem to work. Can you please check if it is updated? :?:
Oh, it should work now. I apparently don't know how to copy-paste. :P
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Re: Disease Detectives B/C

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3141592653589792 wrote:
Infinity Flat wrote:
3141592653589792 wrote:I do NOT Understand this event. Can someone help me? :D
Try taking a look at the 2014 training PowerPoint on the national website (link).
I am sorry, but the link does not seem to work. Can you please check if it is updated? :?:
Oh, it should work now. I apparently don't know how to copy-paste. :P

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Re: Disease Detectives B/C

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3141592653589792 wrote: Not found again! :?:
So, my original post was edited to be correct, but forgot the quoted one.
Either way, here is the link unambiguously:
http://www.soinc.org/disease_detectives_c
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It worked! Thank you! :)
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Re: Disease Detectives B/C

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Here's some food for thought.

Q: Given a case-control study;

a=exposed case patients,b=control exposed,c=unexposed case patients,d=unexposed control

a=50
b=22
c=43
d=12

Complete the following:
-Calculate the odds ratio.

-What does the odds ratio suggest?
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How do you work through the relative risk equation and relative risk tells you how much more likely it is to to get a disease in a certain environment/situation relative to another right?
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