STATISTICS APPLIED TO MEDICINE

Degree course: 
Corso di Long single cycle degree (6 years) in MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2016/2017
Year: 
6
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2021/2022
Course type: 
Supplementary compulsory subjects
Credits: 
1
Period: 
Second semester
Standard lectures hours: 
12
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (12 hours)
Requirements: 

Contents of the first year medical statistics course

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

Inferential statistics: resumption of the hypothesis test concept for mean and prevalence (2 hours)
Confusion and bias in clinical trials (2 hours)
Correlation, association, regression, causality (2 hours)
Absolute measures of disease: prevalence, odd, risk, and hazard. Relative measures of association: relative risk, odds ratio and hazard ratio. Point estimates and confidence intervals (4 hours)
Statistics for the meta-analysis of individual studies (2 hours)

Lecture notes on e-learning, and examples from scientific literature.

Lectures live or remotely (depending on the pandemic situation) with readings of scientific papers taken from the literature.