MEDFL5130E – Introductory course in statistics
Course description
Course content
The aim of the course is to make the participants acquainted with basic statistical ideas and methods. No special previous knowledge of mathematics or statistics is assumed. The statistical software R and the RStudio environment will be used in many of the exercises. Analysis of examples from biomedical research will be emphasized.
Learning outcome
The participants shall get a basic understanding in the following areas:
- Elementary probability
- Probability distributions: binomial distribution and normal distribution
- Design of clinical trials and epidemiological studies
- Statistical theory of estimation
- Construction of confidence intervals
- Testing statistical hypotheses
- Analysis of paired data and comparison of two samples
- Analysis of tables
- Non-parametric statistics and bootstrap
- Linear regression analysis with one or several explanatory variables
- Logistic regression with one or several explanatory variables
- Survival analysis
Admission to the course
The course is reserved for students at the Medical Student Research Programme at the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Dentistry, UiO.
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