03848 - Medical Statistics

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Maria Letizia Bacchi Reggiani
  • Credits: 2
  • SSD: MED/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Physiotherapy (cod. 8476)

Course contents

Introduction to Epidemiology: prevalence, incidence, risk and odds. Diagnostic tests: sensitivity, specificity, predictive values. Descriptive statistics: numerical and graphical methods for organizing and summarizing data . Measures of central tendency and dispersion. Frequency distribution. The normal distribution. Estimate and confidence intervals. Comparison of proportions: chi-square test. Comparison of averages: Student's t test.

Readings/Bibliography

MM.Triola, MF Triola Fondamenti di statistica per le discipline biomediche, Editrice Pearson
M.Bland Statistica Medica, Editrice Apogeo
S.Glantz Statistica per Discipline Biomediche, Editrice McGrawHill

Teaching methods

lectures

Assessment methods

Multiple choice test

Teaching tools

PC, video projector

Office hours

See the website of Maria Letizia Bacchi Reggiani