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Scientific method in epidemiology

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Scientific method in epidemiology

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- [Narrator] In this video, we will talk about the scientific method as it is seen by an epidemiologist. Think back, when was the last time you thought about the scientific method? For some people, you have to go all the way back to high school. I'll refresh your memory with a brief summary of the steps in the scientific method. So far, in this course, we've been focusing on formulating the hypothesis by identifying the components of the hypothesis. Of course, in order to formulate a well-informed hypothesis, you need to identify the issue first and then do some background research to see what other researchers have done. I'll cover this more in Chapter Four, but in the big picture our goal is to select a data set and formulate a hypothesis such so that we can answer it with that data set. Later, we'll reduce the data set to the set population we are studying. Then we'll do a regression equation with a dependent…

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