Epidemiology and statistics - STATISTICA MEDICA ED EPIDEMIOLOGIA
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Course organization
The course aims to provide some knowledge of the subject, in order to give to the student the capacity to calculate and interpret some descriptive and inferential statistics, including those most common in the scientific literature.
Probability distribution
Normal distribution
Standard normal distribution table for computing the area under the curve
Inferential statistic
Confidence intervals
Confidence intervals with small samples: the t distribution
Introduction to the hypothesis tests
Hypothesis test of a single mean
Paired sample t-test
One-tailed and two-tailed hypothesis test
Comparison of two means
Type I and Type II errors, power of test
Correlation: Pearson correlation coefficient.
The regression analysis.
| Reference books | |||||
| Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
| Daniel WW, Cross CL | Biostatistica (Edizione 3) | Edises | 2019 | ||
| Norman G, Streiner D | Biostatistica: quello che avreste voluto sapere... (Edizione 2) | Ambrosiana | 2015 | ||
| Verlato G, Zanolin ME | Esercizi di Statistica Medica, Informatica ed Epidemiologia | Libreria Cortina Editrice, Verona | 2000 | ||
| Swinscow TDV, Campbell MJ | Le basi della Statistica per scienze bio-mediche | Edizioni Minerva Medica S.p.A., Torino | 2004 | ||
The final evaluation of the profit will be made through a written test with exercises; if this test is passed, then an oral interview will be carried out.
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