Epidemiology Exam I - Part 1

Which of the following is a purpose of the study of epidemiology?

What type of immunity involves colostrum and immunoglobulins?

What is described where the mean, median and mode are equal with the skewness/kurtosis at zero?

Which type of transmission would involve immediate proximity and often occurs by respiratory route or venereal disease?

What is the ability to transit infection either directly or indirectly?

What is an inanimate object that is capable of transmitting an infectious agent?

What is the probability that you will roll a snake eyes on a pair of dice?

What is the interval from effective exposure to a non-infectious agent and the onset of related disease?

A measurement is an assignment of numbers or names to objects/events according to a set of rules.

What is the ability of an agent to enter, survive, and multiply in the host?

Which of the following denotes a measurable numerical outcome?

What is the ability of an agent to produce clinical disease?

Odds can be described as ratios AND proportions.

The route of entry of the digestive tract is frequently via fecal-oral transmission.

Which of the following types of data is an ordered list where spacing between levels is not definable?

Risk is a deterministic model of causation and corresponds to ___________.

Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a route of entry when dealing with the skin?

Which of the following is NOT an epidemiological data classification?

What type of cases occur regularly with a predictable pattern?

What term is used to describe the potential development of disease in individuals?

What is the ability of an agent to produce severe disease?

What describes data with names, but no true order (e.g. nationality)?

Which of the following can also be defined as the sampling distribution of the statistic?

What is defined as the persistence of an infectious agent within the host without clinical signs or symptoms?

Which of the following is considered an indirect method for transfer of a disease to a new host?

Infectiousness relates to the ability of an animal to transmit an infection to a new susceptible host.

What potential problems could arise when collecting data for epidemiological purposes?

Which of the following denotes a description or subjective impression?

The epidemiology web of causation includes ___________.

What type of data has equal spacing between levels and can be quantified without a true zero point?

What do you classify an animal that is infectious, but does not have clinical signs of the disease?

What would be involved in the first step in determining factors associated with a disease occurrence?

Which of the following shows data with a single mode and appears relatively bell shaped?

Which of the following is NOT a part of the epidemiology triad?

What is an animate object (mechanical or biological) that is capable of spreading infection?

Which of the following is a potential route of entry for a disease/pathogen?

What describes gaps between possible values such as with birth order?

What is a sudden increase in the number of disease cases above what is normal expected in a population of an area?

Which of the following equations most accurately illustrates a ratio?

What is among the first things a veterinarian should consider when investigating a disease for epidemiological purposes?

What cases occur clustered in time and space, above what would be expected?

What is a sudden rise in incidence of disease that is limited in geographical distributions?

What type of data includes the highest level of measurement based on a true zero point?

What is the persistence of an infectious agent within the host without active replication/shedding?

What is expressed as the proportion of resistant animals in a herd?

What is an inanimate substance that serves to pass an infectious agent to susceptible individuals?

What is the odds of rolling snake eyes on a pair of dice?

Which of the following is a factor that can drive disease transmission?

Which of the following equations most accurately illustrates a proportion?

A dichotomous data point only involves two levels and can be typically be answered with a yes or no question?

A cluster is an aggregation of cases in place & time that are believed to be greater than expected.

Which type of common source epidemic would occur within a short period of time?

What is the interval from exposure to the infectious agent & the detection of the agent in tissues/secretions of host?

What is a random variable where its value will change from sample to sample?

A pandemic is an epidemic affecting many countries in the world?

What is the actual object from which an infection was acquired?

What is the biological niche that supports the infectious agent before "escaping" into the animal/human of interest?

Which type of cases occur irregularly without a discernable pattern?

What is a relative resistance of a herd of animals to invasion & spread of an infectious organism?

What is the interval from effective exposure to an infectious agent & the onset of related disease?

What type of immunity can occur due to a natural infection, vaccination, or purposeful infection?

Which type of immunity are animals born with?

Which of the following is important when studying a diseae?

Which of the following equations most accurately illustrates a rate?

Adequate contact WILL cause disease transmission in completely susceptible hosts.

What is the ability to transmit an infection through direct contact?

What factors were used in the Framingham Heart Study?

What method(s) can be used to evaluate the normality assumption?

What is a specialized database specializing in spatial data storage and presentation?

What is the true population value?

What describes data where no gaps occur between possible values?