Course Summary

Course

Introduction to Biostatistics for Clinical and Public Health Researchers

Convenor

Dr Baki Billah

Presenters

Dr Nazmul Zarim

Ms Rosanne Freak-Poli

Date

March 3 – 4 2008

Time

9:00am - 5:00pm daily

Venue

AMREP C3 (Glass Door near the IAN POTTER LIBRARY, Ground Floor, The Alfred Hospital)

Alfred Hospital, Melbourne

Suitable for

Those who are involved in medical, clinical and public health research

Aims

Provide basic statistical concepts required for clinical and public health research

Overview

Following materials will be covered:

• Some basic concepts.
• Descriptive statistics: histogram, bar-diagram, pie-chart, mean, median, mode, standard deviation (SD), range, quartile, box-plot.
• Probability, statistical distributions: normal, t and binomial.
• Sampling distributions, standard error (SE), difference between SD and SE.
• Confidence Intervals: for single mean and single proportion, for the difference in two means and two proportions.
• Test of Hypothesis: test for a single mean and proportion, test for difference in two means and two proportions, paired t-test, chi-squared test.

On attending of this two-day block students will have developed the ability to:

• Describe, summarise, and graph data appropriately.
• Analyse elementary data using a statistical computer package.
• Identify several probability distributions and their parameters.
• Quantify uncertainty in research results using biostatistical methods.
• Apply the appropriate statistical methods to basic research questions.
• Perform simple statistical analyses, report their findings and interpret their results.
• Critically appraise the statistical aspects of research publications in health care.

Fee

$800 (excl GST)