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Statistical Methods for Medical Research, vt 12

Course organizer
Jonas Björk, Jonas.Bjork@skane.se, associate professor, Competence Centre for Clinical Research (RSKC).
Pär-Ola Bendahl, Per-Ola.Bendahl@med.lu.se, associate professor, Department of Oncology.

Target group
Doctoral students at the Faculty of Medicine who are in the beginning of their doctoral studies.

Time 
February 6--10, 2012 between 9.15 and 16.00.

Place
Skåne University Hospital in Lund; exact location will be announced later.

Maximum Number of Participants 
20

Course Contents
After the course, the participant should have sufficient knowledge of statistical methodology in order to suggest appropriate methods for planning and evaluating common types of empirical studies within medical research.

• Introduction to medical statistics
• Descriptive statistics (averages, variation, graphical techniques)
• Introduction to statistical inference (confidence intervals, p-values, hypothesis testing)
• Comparisons between groups (parametric and non-parametric tests)
• Study design and its relation to statistical power, sample size
• Analysis of associations (correlation, regression)
• Evaluation of measurement and classification methods (agreement)
• Analysis of binary outcomes and data in cross-tables
• Survival analysis

Teaching forms 
The course is held in English. Active participation and access to laptop during the course week is required.

• Lectures
• Discussions in small groups
• Demonstrations and exercises using the statistical software package SPSS