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| Responsible Department | Department of Large Animal Sciences
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| Course Dates | May 2012 |
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| Course Registration | To sign up for the course, please send an e-mail to Nils Toft at nt@life.ku.dk Please also remember to add the course to your PhD plan |
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| Deadline for Registration | April 2012 |
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| Credits | 3 (ECTS) |
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| Level of Course | PhD course |
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| Language of Instruction | English |
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| Course Content |
| Five days of plenary lectures, group work and exercises at KU LIFE followed by a project report (to be written at home) on own data or a dataset provided by the course responsible. Some preparation in terms of reading and data manipulation must be expected. The course uses R and OpenBUGS and will require that the course participant is familiar with R at introductory level before course start (instructions for a tutorial and preparation will be forwarded in due time). The course starts with an introduction to the underlying concepts. This will be done in form of a discussion of the underlying concepts based on literature provided prior to the course start and assumed familiar to the participant. |
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| Teaching and learning Methods |
| Five days of plenary lectures, group work and exercises at KU LIFE followed by a project report (to be written at home) on own data or a dataset provided by the course responsible. Some preparation in terms of reading and data manipulation must be expected. |
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| Learning Outcome |
| The course covers the epidemiological aspects of diagnostic test evaluation studies - from the technical aspects of planning, conducting and subsequently analyzing data from such studies, to the underlying assumptions regarding disease definitions, test characteristics and the implications of using a perfect reference tests vs. a latent class approach. |
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| Course Coordinator |
| Nils Toft, nt@life.ku.dk, Department of Large Animal Sciences/Populationsbiology, Phone: 353-33009 |
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| Type of Evaluation |
| Evalution of project report |
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| Work Load |
| preparation | 20 | | lectures | 35 | | project work | 35 |
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