Ateneo - UPO

Knowledge and understanding:
- basic notions of descriptive statistics and data presentation in the biostatistic field
- logic of statistical inference (frequentist approach, sampling distribution, confidence interval and hypothesis tests).

- epidemiological knowledge for the design of an epidemiological study
- knowledge to understand and measure the phenomena of health and disease.

Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
- ability to solve simple statistical problems using adequate analytical tools.
- ability to design a statistical analysis to address an epidemiological problem.
- ability to recognize and evaluate appropriate study designs to anserwquestions related to the causality of diseases, assessing possible errors, strengths and weaknesses based on the research question.
- ability to use statistical software for statistical and epidemiological analysis purposes

Autonomy of judgement:
-to be able to define the entire scientific reasoning from the research question to the formulation of the hypothesis
- to be able to express epidemiological judgments and evaluations starting from biological data.
- to acquire the tools to critically evaluate the results of a statistical analysis and epidemiological literature.

Communication skills:
- ability of arguing the principles of statistical inference and the reasons for choosing a specific statistical test.
- ability of explanation of the limitations and advantages of epidemiological study designs and their fields of application.
- ability of description of the stages of planning a scientific research, from the conception to the publication of the results
Learning ability:

-Gaining of ability to understand the differences between research and scientific research and specifically, the characteristics of epidemiological research from the perspective of evidence based practice (EBP).

Knowledge:
- knowledge of the principles of descriptive medical statistics and of the statistical terminology adopted in the scientific field in the description of populations and samples.
- knowledge of the probabilistic and inferential bases and of the methodological elements useful for the interpretation of the results of an epidemiological study.
- knowledge of the epidemiological relationship and its relationship with causality.
-knowledge of the main tools and methods to quantify the relationship between exposure and health outcomes.
- knowledge of the main designs of epidemiological studies and the measures of occurrence and association appropriate to the data and context.

Competences and Skills:
- correct and efficient selection of a statistical sample
- choice of valid and reliable tools to measure variables and appropriate analysis techniques according to the hypothesis.
-recognition of an epidemiological relationship in the components that determine it and the ability to reason on its causality
-identification of the design of an epidemiological study and evaluation of the possible advantages and disadvantages - interpretation of the results of quantitative methods for measuring health problems and the associations between risk factors and diseases.
-management of statistical analyzes in R / Stata relating to the main methods used in epidemiology
- reading of a scientific article, understanding the methods and learning how to critically evaluate the results