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1. What is meant by an intervention study as a type of experimental epidemiological study design? Provide at least one relevant example.
2. What is meant by a community trial as a type of experimental epidemiological study design? Provide at least one relevant example.
3. Discuss temporal differences in cohort designs for epidemiologic research. Why is this aspect important to consider?
4. Explain measures of interpretation in cohort studies, and provide at least one relevant example.
Research Paper Outline
For your second submission, you will need to submit a draft of your research paper with several components to ensure you are on the right track:
• An outline of your research and the intended direction of your argument,
• at least five scholarly resources you have found that contribute to your topic,
• a brief annotated bibliography of two scholarly resources, and
• an abstract outlining your topic and your subsequent findings.
5. Discuss the various options for sampling and cohort formation within epidemiologic cohort studies. As a practicing epidemiologist, how would you go about selecting the best sampling and cohort formation options for a particular study?