FINAL TAKE-HOME EXAM FOR NUTRITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY 1/15/2009
Department of Agricultural Chemistry, College of Agriculture Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health
National Taiwan University
By Professor Wen-Harn Pan Commenting a paper
1. What is the major question asked and tested by the authors?
2. Were all the comparison groups comparable? If not, how the authors handle this problem?
3. Did they use a valid measure of dietary component of interest? Explain.
4. Do you agree with the statistical analyses they carried out? Please make sure that you will have commented on the multivariate regression analysis.
5. What was the major conclusion?
6. Do you agree with their conclusion? If you obtained the same results, what conclusion would you make?
7. If you do not agree with their conclusion, state your refutation points one by one. 8. Write down any other comments you have about this paper.