SCIENZE PROPEDEUTICHE
8 CFU - 1° Semester
Teaching Staff
LUCIA CALCAGNO - Module FISICA APPLICATA - FIS/07 - 3 CFU
TEACHER NOT YET ALLOCATED - Module INFORMATICA - INF/01 - 3 CFU
VINCENZO GUARDABASSO - Module Medical Statistics - MED/01 - 2 CFU
Detailed Course Content
- Medical Statistics
Introduction to statistics:
- descriptive and inferential statistics
- types of data: qualitative, ordinal, quantitative - discrete and continuous
- data collection and presentation; graphical representations
Descriptive Statistics:
- frequencies and proportions; frequency distributions
- quantiles and percentiles
- means and other central tendency measures
- standard deviation and other statistical dispersion measures
Probability and statistical inference
- probability distributions and probability density functions
- sampling, inference and hypothesis testing: confidence intervals
- false-positive and false-negative errors
- sensibility and specificity; predictive values.
Hypothesis testing
- "Student's" t-test for means; “chi squared” test for frequencies
- correlation and regression
- elements of ANOVA and non-parametric methods
Textbook Information
- Medical Statistics
Fowler, Jarvis, Chevannes - Practical statistics for nursing and health care, Wiley
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