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Bias, Confounding and the Role of Chance Principles of Epidemiology Lecture 5 Dona Schneider, PhD, MPH, FACE To Show Cause We Use Koch’s Postulates for Infectious Disease Hill’s Postulates for Chronic Disease and Complex Questions Strength of Association – Tonight’s entire lecture Biologic Credibility Specificity Consistency with Other Associations Time Sequence Dose-Response Relationship Analogy Experiment Coherence To Show a Valid Statistical Association We need to assess: Bias: whether systematic error has been built into the study design Confounding: whether an extraneous factor is relat