39651 - Medical Statistic

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Docente: Elena Nardi
  • Credits: 2
  • SSD: MED/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Orthopaedics Techniques (cod. 5915)

Learning outcomes

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 Gaussian distribution. Excel practical exercises are provided.

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:16 items a correct answer provides 2 points, a wrong answer porvides 0 points

Teaching tools

The teaching material will be available electronically on : https://virtuale.unibo.it/

Office hours

See the website of Elena Nardi