Ateneo - UPO

The course consists in a first part with topics related to descriptive statistics and in a second part that will concern the inferential statistics and the statistical hypothesis tests

Triola MM, Triola MF. Fondamenti di Statistica per le discipline
biomediche, Pearson

The course aims to: provide methodological issues related to descriptive and inferential statistics, select the appropriate statistical method to summarize study data, interpretation of the results

Basic knowledge in mathematics

Lectures, Classroom exercises, Self-assessment test in Moodle-DIR

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Written exam. The exam aims to verify knowledge and skills acquired by the students through the solution of exercises and open questions concerning the course programme

The frequency distribution
Measures of Central Tendency and dispersion
Properties of Probability
Probability distribution: the Binomial and normal distribution
Sampling distribution
Distribution of the sample mean
Confidence interval
Type I and type II error and the power of a test
Hypothesis testing: a single population mean

Knowledge and understanding: to go in depth of statistical methods for
the analysis of clinical data.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: translating theory into
practice by concretely working at the solutions to exercises.
Decision-making autonomy: acquiring autonomy in decision to conduct
the analysis of data obtained from surveys.
Communication skills: ability to communicate knowledge with clarity,
scientific and methodological rigour.
Learning skills: dealing with the information obtained from clinical studies
with the objective of collecting and organizing data and correctly
interpreting the information