Overview: Worksheet activities in this course are opportunities to practice course concepts and receive specific instructor feedback. These worksheet assignments will prepare you to complete the final project.
Prompt: For this assignment, you will complete the Module Two Worksheet. You will practice calculating factors in relation to measuring disease. Calculations include odds ratio, mortality rates, incidence, and prevalence. You will also be determining trends and patterns. In your worksheet, you will specifically address the following:
• Accurately calculate the proportion of cases that smoked. Be sure to show your calculations.
• Accurately calculate the proportion of controls that smoked. Be sure to show your calculations.
• Accurately calculate the odds ratio, with the correct equation. What do you infer from the odds ratio about the relationship between smoking and lung
cancer?
• Accurately calculate the odds ratio by category of daily cigarette consumption, comparing each category to nonsmokers. Be sure to show your
calculations.
• Interpret these results, and describe the trends or patterns you see in the data.
o Accurately calculate the incidence for lung cancer during the 10-year time period. Be sure to show your calculations.
o Accurately calculate the prevalence for lung cancer during this 10-year time period. Be sure to show your calculations.
o Accurately calculate the lung cancer mortality rates for each smoking category. Be sure to show your calculations.
o Describe the trends or patterns you see in the data about mortality, and explain what the trends or patterns mean.
Rubric
Guidelines for Submission: Submit the completed Module Two Worksheet.