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Epidemiology Congress 2018 & Tropical Medicine Congress 2018

Archives of General Internal Medicine

ISSN: 2591-7951

Volume 2

TROPICAL MEDICINE, INFECTIOUS DISEASES & PUBLIC HEALTH

International Conference on

EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH

World Congress on

Joint Event on

OF EXCELLENCE

IN INTERNATIONAL

MEETINGS

YEARS

Anil Chankaramangalam Mathew, Arch Gen Intern Med 2018, Volume 2 | DOI: 10.4066/2591-7951-C7-020

MODELLING MORBIDITY DATA USING

POISSON REGRESSION

his presentation addresses basic procedures for measuring morbidity,

commonly used measures of association in morbidity and the fundamen-

tal underlying statistical significance testing. Learning objectives of the work-

shop include differentiate between count, ratio and rate, difficulties involving

in measuring incidence and prevalence, make familiar with the concepts of cu-

mulative incidence, incidence density, attack rate and their inter relationships

and finally differentiate various measures of association include risk ratio, rate

ratio, hazard ratio, odds ratio and prevalence ratio.

Biography

Anil Chankaramangalam Mathew obtained his MSc

degree in Biostatistics (1988) from Christian Medical

College, Vellore affiliated to University of Madras, In-

dia under the guidance of Prof PSS Sundar Rao and

PhD in Biostatistics from Bharathiar University, Coim-

batore under the guidance of Prof S Krishna Moorthy.

He joined PSG Institute of Medical Sciences and Re-

search, Coimbatore, India as Assistant Professor in

1989, got promoted as Associate Professor in 2003

and as a Professor in 2008.

Anil Chankaramangalam Mathew

PSG Institute of Medical Sciences

and Research, India