Ecological Study

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Step 7: Discussion Questions

Carefully consider the following questions related to your work above. Write down your answers and be prepared to discuss them in seminar.

  1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of ecological studies?
  2. What is meant by ecological fallacy? Give some examples.
  3. What is the difference between individual- and population-based studies? How is this reflected in the ecological study hypotheses?
  4. What are the limitations of using secondary data sources (i.e. disease registries, census data)?

Question for the Intellectually Curious

  1. What does it mean to refer to "correlation" between variables and what kind of relationship can be determined using this?
Learning
Objectives		   >   Introduction
to Study		   >   Student
Role		   >   Study
Design		   >   Data
Collection		   >   Data
Analysis		   >   Discussion
Questions
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