BIOSTATS 6016EX - Clinical Biostatistics

External - Semester 1 - 2015

The aim of this course is to enable students to use correctly statistical methods of particular relevance to evidence-based health care and to advise clinicians on the application of these methods and interpretation of the results. The content includes: clinical agreement (kappa statistics, Bland-Altman agreement method, intraclass correlation); statistical process control (special and common causes of variation, quality control charts); meta-analysis (estimating treatment effect, assessing heterogeneity, publication bias; application for randomized controlled trials, diagnostic tests and observational studies); advanced topics in clinical trials (cross-over trials, equivalence trials).

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