- 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.
- Collecting data: why and how?
- 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
- Parametric and non-parametric tests
Lecture 4.
- Regression models: linear and logistic regression
- Survival analysis: Kaplan-Meier estimates and Cox regression
- Epidemiology
Lecture 1.
- The fundamentals of epidemiology: concepts, definitions and measures
- Occurrence measures: incidence rate and prevalence
Lecture 2.
- Relations between occurrence measures.
- Effect measures: attributable risk, rates and fractions
- Analysing binary data: relative risks and odds ratios
Lecture 3.
Epidemiological study design: cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, RCT
Lecture 4.
- Evaluating the efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency of health care
- Effect size
- Sources of bias and confounding
Tutoring activities:
- How to create a database in Excel: a practical example with clinical data
- Introducing to statistical package Stata
- Developing a command syntax to run descriptive statistics
- Right and wrong graphical representations
- Developing a command syntax to run the most common statistical tests
Testi/Bibliografia
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
Tutorials on statistical packages
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
https://elearning-cds.unibo.it/mod/forum/view.php?f=21066
Strumenti a supporto della didattica
slides
stata syntax to run descriptive statistics and statistical tests
Link ad altre eventuali informazioni
https://elearning-cds.unibo.it/mod/forum/view.php?f=21066
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Paola Rucci