Attendance

1) Descriptive Statistics Classification of variables with particular reference to biomedical and clinical measurements Frequency distributions Graphical representations Measures of central tendency Measures of dispersion 2) Probability Definitions Basic formulas and fundamental theorems Bayes’ theorem Probability distributions: binomial, uniform, normal 3) Inferential Statistics (Estimation and Significance Testing) Sampling distributions Standard error of the sample mean Confidence intervals Standard error and confidence intervals for proportions Estimation of the difference between two means and two proportions Hypothesis testing Principles of significance testing Statistical, real, and clinical significance Tests for comparison between means and proportions Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and post-hoc comparison of means Regression and correlation Chi-squared test for association Odds, Odds Ratio, and introduction to logistic regression

Martin Bland: Statistica Medica, APOGEO