Mastering Experimental Studies in Biostatistics and Epidemiology
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Which type of study in Epidemiology involves randomly and simultaneously assigning patients to the experimental group or the control group?

  • Clinical Trials (correct)
  • Cluster Randomised Trials
  • Community Trials
  • Field Trials

What is the distinguishing feature between observational and experimental studies?

  • Ethical issues
  • Concealment of allocation
  • Sample size
  • Random assignment (correct)

Which method of randomisation involves assigning patients based on factors like next patient, day of the week, or date of birth?

  • Simple randomisation
  • Block randomisation
  • Quasi-randomisation (correct)
  • Stratified randomisation

Which type of study provides strong evidence of a causal relationship by randomly allocating experimental units to different exposures?

<p>Experimental studies (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the main features of clinical trials?

<p>Randomisation methods, use of masking, allocation of concealment, parallel or cross-over design and use of control group (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of trial involves non-randomized (quasi-experimental) population-based trials?

<p>Community trials (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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