- Docente: Paola Rucci
- Crediti formativi: 2
- SSD: MED/01
- Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Laurea Magistrale a Ciclo Unico in Medicine and surgery (cod. 9210)
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
Select, apply and interpret the most common statistical tests for descriptive and comparative analyses used in the biomedical literature and in the clinical setting. Contrast different study designs used in clinical epidemiology and research, and compute measures of treatment efficacy and risk factor impact.
Contenuti
Biostatistics
Lecture 1.
- The importance of medical statistics for research and clinical practice
- Developing a database: variable types and formats
Lecture 2.
- Descriptive statistics of categorical, ordinal and continuous variables
- Graphical representation of variables
Lecture 3.
- Hypothesis formulation and testing
- Confidence intervals
Lecture 4.
- Correlation and regression analysis
Epidemiology
Lecture 1.
- The fundamentals of epidemiology: concepts, definitions
- Occurrence measures: incidence rate and prevalence
Lecture 2.
- Relations between occurrence measures
- Effect measures: attributable risk, rates and fractions
Lecture 3.
- Measures of diagnostic accuracy
Lecture 4.
- Epidemiological study designs: cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, RCT
- Analysing binary data: relative risks and odds ratios
Testi/Bibliografia
Pagano, M., and K. Gauvreau. 2018. Principles of Biostatistics, 2nd ed. New York: Chapman and Hall/CRC.
Recommended chapters: 1-3, 9-13, 15, 17-21
Basic Epidemiology 2nd Edition by R. Bonita R. Beaglehole T. Kjellström, World Health Organization
free download at
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/43541/1/9241547073_eng.pdf
Metodi didattici
Lectures in person
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
Written test (for examination dates, see almaesami.unibo.it)
The test consists of 32 4-choice questions. Only one answer is correct. There are no penalties for wrong or blank answers.
The test must be completed in 45 minutes.
Module CFU Questions
History of Medicine 1 4
Ethics and Behavioural Sciences 2 8
Medical Statistics and Epidemiology 2 8
Scientific Research Methodology 1 4
Determinant of Health and Disease 2 8
Number of right answers
Marks
31/32 30L
30 30
29 29
28 28
27 27
26 26
25 25
24 24
23 23
22 22
21 21
20 20
19 19
18 18
<18 Fail
≥18 and 0 right answers in any module: Fail
The test must be completed in 45 minutes.
Grade acceptance/refusal
Grades are published within 3 days on AlmaEsami.
The student can refuse the grade within 5 days from publication by sending an e-mail to Prof. Rucci (paola.rucci2@unibo.it) and the Program coordinator (medicine.surgery@unibo.it).
All refusals must be sent from the institutional e-mail address @studio.unibo.it
After 6 days from publication, the acceptance will be taken for granted and the exam will be recorded.
Strumenti a supporto della didattica
slides
interactive tests
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Paola Rucci