Biostatistics and Study Design

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

 

Teaching Methods

Lecturing, discussing and resolving practical problems.

Learning Outcomes

The student is expected to be able to:

- define and distinguish between descriptive statistics, estimation and hypothesis testing

- learn the steps and requirements of a statistical analysis

- assess the adequacy of research questions and corresponding choice of main measures

- distinguish between different study designs and be able to select the adequate for each case

- place data in a format adequate for statistical analysis

- perform descriptive data analysis

- select the correct hypothesis test, given a research question

- perform simple inferential analysis

- report statistical results.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

- Identifying and discussing the adequacy of research questions

- Identifying the main outcome measure of a study. Understanding the consequences of this choice

- Study designs and their characteristics

- How to structure data for statistical analysis

- Identifying outliers and describing data

- Choice of the appropriate statistical tests

- Application of statistical thought

- How to report statistical results.

Head Lecturer(s)

Bárbara Cecília Bessa dos Santos Oliveiros Paiva

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 50.0%
Project: 50.0%

Bibliography

Análise Estatística, com utilização do SPSS; João Maroco, Edições Silabo;

Fundamentals of Biostatistics, Bernard Rosner, Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2006

Bioestatística descodificada - Bioestatística, Epidemiologia e Investigação, A. Gouveia de Oliveira, Lidel,

Métodos Quantitativos em Medicina, Massad, Menezes, Silveira & Ortega ed. Manole, 2004

R for Medicine and Biology, Paul D Lewis, Jones and Bartlett, 2010.