Statistics Course - January 2010

Nemours Biomedical Research Statistics Course

January 2010

Overview

    This course is designed to teach participants about data analysis and the use of statistical methods in clinical research. Topics covered include descriptive statistics, test of hypothesis, correlation, regression analysis, analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, repeated measures, logistic regression, parametric and nonparametric tests and designing clinical studies. SPSS will be used for the purpose of data analysis. Participants will be expected to gain experience in designing clinical studies, data analysis, presentation, and interpretation of statistical analysis.

Course Founder

  • Stephen Lawless, M.D., M.B.A.

Course Coordinator

  • H. Timothy Bunnell, Ph.D.

Instructors

  • Jobayer Hossain, Ph.D. - Biostatistician
  • Tim Bunnell, Ph.D. - Psychologist

Assignments

  • 3 Take-home assignments
  • 1 Take-home final exam/assignment
    • Assigned in class 8
    • Return for final comments

Data sets


Schedule - Click on the class 'Date' for PowerPoint notes


Week
Date
Topics
1
01/13/2010 Course introduction, Getting started with SPSS, Initial statistics comments
2
01/20/2010 Descriptive statistics and data visualization:
Mean, median, coefficient of variation, variance, standard deviation, range, quartiles, percentiles, statistical graphs, etc
3
01/27/2010 Inferences, test of hypothesis, type I and type II error, level of significance, power, confidence interval, p-value, etc
4
02/03/2010 Common parametric and non-parametric tests:
Normal test, t-test, Chi-square test, F-test, sign test, signed rank test, rank test, Mann-Whitney U-test.
5
02/17/2010 Relationships among variables, Scatterplots, Correlation, and Regression analysis, Variable selection
6
02/24/2010 Regression analysis (continued), Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
7
03/03/2010 ANOVA (continued), Factorial and repeated measures
8
03/10/2010 Odds, Odds Ratios, Logits, Logistic Regression
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