Learning Objectives

At the end of this activity, participants should be able to:

1. Apply knowledge of descriptive statistics to your jurisdiction’s health data;
2. Reflect on why variability matters in a population when examining substance use and abuse;
3. Chart the variability in one select health variable in your jurisdiction;
4. Distinguish between the use of dependent/independent ordinal/nominal variables, and continuous/discrete variables;
5. Differentiate between a representative sample and a population; and
6. Accurately identify the relationship between incidence and prevalence.

Your Instructor

Fadia T. Shaya, PhD, MPH
Professor and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs
Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
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Kimberly Stinchcomb, MPH, CPH
Project Coordinator
Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

Savyasachi Shah, MPH, BDS
Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

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