SUNY at Buffalo Immunology Questions

Read Cook NR, et al. 2009. Mammographic screening and risk factors for breast cancer. AmJ Epidemiol 170:1422-1432.This can be found at http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/kwp304v1 it is also attach as a pdf

Answer the following questions in the assignment space:

1. What was the hypothesis?

2. What type of study was done?

3. How was the size of the study population determined?

4. Could there have been bias in selection of subjects or in data collection?

5. What methods were used to control confounding bias?Were these methods valid/successful?

6. How was the stability of the statistical estimates measured?Were the methods used valid/successful?

7. What are the major results of the study?How might bias have affected these results?

8. Can these results be generalized?To whom?