STATISTICS FOR CLINICIANS

 

Programme

 

 08.45 Registrations and Welcome 

 

 

Introduction [Measures of effect] - discusses means, medians, standard deviation, range, relative risks, odds ratios, risk and rate ratios and prevalence. It clarifies when each CAN be used. In summary, this gives you the currency for different types of research studies.

 

 

Exercise with abstracts - how to read abstracts, and move from this to the tables’ section.

 

           

The statistical basis of research - Frequentist and Bayesian statistics, samples and populations, basis of sample size, confidence intervals, law of large numbers, central limit theorems, different distributions, etc

 

 

Hierarchy of Study Designs and Evidence - systematic reviews, rcts, cohort studies, case control studies, cross-sectional studies - using published papers as illustrations for reading tables in published papers.

 

Coffee Break

  

How to read a paper [p values, confidence intervals] - bias, confounding, p-values, confidence intervals, methods section

  

LUNCH

  

Inference - t-test, chi-test, regression, ANOVA, confidence intervals etc

 

 

Sample size [size of effect, type 1 and type 2 errors, alpha and beta probabilities], Diagnostic [sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, likelihood ratios, diagnostic and screening].

 

 

Evaluation

 

 

17.00 Certificates and Close