APPLIED COMPUTING IN RESEARCH
Topics from the medical statistics class, year 1
Use of MS excel for organizing, collecting and cleaning data. Use of MS excel for descriptive statistics: sample distributions, measures of position and variability, correlation among two variables. Plots. Use of MS excel and other open-source web resources for hypothesis testing: parametric and non-parametric tests for comparing two or more continuous or discrete distributions (both paired and independent samples). Test p-value. Confidence intervals for location parameters (mean and proportions).
Lessons are held in the computer lab room; each lesson is organized as a mixture of theory and practical’s using students’ own data when available, or data provided by the teacher.
Lesson notes available by the teacher