Scuola di Specializzazione in Farmacologia e Tossicologia Clinica (D.I. 68/2015)

Medical statistics

Course code

4S00231

Name of lecturer

Alessandro Marcon

Number of ECTS credits allocated

1

Other available courses

• Postgraduate Specialisation in Radiodiagnosis
• Postgraduate Specialisation in Healthcare Statistics and Biometrics
• Postgraduate Specialisation in Paediatric Surgery
• Scuola di Specializzazione in Statistica Sanitaria e Biometria (accesso riservato ai "non medici" - D.I. 716/2016)

Academic sector

MED/01 - MEDICAL STATISTICS

Language of instruction

Italian

Site

VERONA

Period

not yet allocated

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide students with introductory knowledge of epidemiological methodology. The main sources of measurement error and the consequences of measurement error in scientific research will be discussed. An overview of observational and experimental study designs will be provided, and inference techniques and the interpretation of statistical significance will be illustrated.

Syllabus

- descriptive and analytical epidemiology
- experimental and observational research
- disease frequency measures and association estimates
- main observational and experimental study designs
- methods for analyzing binary outcomes
- measurement error (precision, accuracy and validity)
- tests of hypotheses and confidence intervals
- studies of superiority, non-inferiority and equivalence
- the logical pitfalls of threshold-based statistical significance
- the problem of multiple tests

Reference books

See the teaching bibliography

Assessment methods and criteria