Overview

This module aims to provide the students with an overview of the basics of medical statistics (statistics applied to clinical epidemiology). It also equips them with the basic skills of identifying and interpreting scientific hypotheses and survival curves. By the end of this module, the students should be able to describe the different types of variables and inferential (analytical) tests, parameters of subjective clinical outcomes scales, and sources of bias in cohort studies for risk and prognosis.

Presentation

Please find the pre-seminar record below:

04. Medical Statistics (Record) 2023/24

04. Medical Statistics (Classroom) 2023/24

Resources

• Required Resources (compulsory)

1. Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials. Chapter 3: Abnormality
2. Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials. Chapter 8: Prognosis
   N.B. In case you are studying from the previous edition (fifth edition) of Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials, you should study Chapter 7:  Prognosis
3. Clinical Epidemiology: The Essentials. Chapter 11: Chance
   
4. Basic Epidemiology: Chapter 4: Basic biostatistics: concepts and tools (page 69 -73)

• Recommended Resources (optional)

1. Global Health with Greg Martin: Statistics made easy
2. Summary numbers of central tendency: mean, median and mode (StatisticsHowTo)
   
3. Summary numbers of variability: standard deviation (StatisticsHowTo)

Assignment