Reference no: EM133335939

Recall from the power point and readings that a population is a group of people who share at least one characteristic. One defines a population through inclusion and/or exclusion criteria, (those are two sides of the same coin-you can either EXCLUDE men or INCLUDE women). In this assignment, you will come up with a population, and then work through what the inclusion and exclusion criteria would be. Be sure to think it through. Ask yourself: "what about THIS person, with THESE characteristics? Is that person in the population?" Think about who you might be missing, given the list of inclusion/exclusion criteria.

For instance, if the population is "OSU students":

all students?
undergrads only?
full-time only?
Corvallis residents only?
dorm residents only?
are there age restrictions (i.e., "traditional" students only?)
What about faculty/staff who are taking a class through the tuition waiver program?
Etc.

In epidemiology, we want to say things about populations. But one cannot, logistically, study an entire population except in very rare instances. So instead we draw SAMPLES from the populations. Knowing this, how might you draw samples from the populations defined earlier? HOW, exactly, would you get OSU students to be in study?