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
