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Find out the fist paper on association studies written in Spanish
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Scan through the online material mentioned in Lecture 1
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Learn the basics of R statistical package
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a tutorial: PDF (~ 100 pages) or
html
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how to get in and out
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how to add two numbers
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how to create a 2-by-2 table
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how to run Pearson's chi-square test (chisq.test)
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Re-calculate the p-values of the three 2-by-2 tables discussed in the
lecture using Fisher's exact test (fisher.test)
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Why can't relative risk be calculated exactly in the case-control
sample collection design?
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Read Sasieni (1997)'s paper
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Understand the difference between association "strength" (e.g. odd-ratio)
and association "significance" (e.g. p-value). If the sample size is
increased, which one will change and which one will not?
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A real example of case control data