Chapter 7 Review Questions 

1. Chapter 7 uses the term rate to refer to prevalences, incidence proportions, and incidence rates, even though the latter is the only true rate. Why?
2. What does bias mean?
3. What is a crude rate?
4. What is a stratum-specific rate?
5. What is a reference population? 
6. What is a standard million?
7. What does it mean when we say a comparison is confounded?
8. What are the properties of a confounder? (Covered in .PPT presentation.)
9. This is the rate the reference population would experience if it were to have the age-specific rates of the study population.
10. What notational convention does the book use to denote values that come from the study population? 
11. What notational convention does the book use to denote a value from the reference population?
12. Explain in plain language why Florida has a much higher mortality rate than Alaska.

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