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METODOLOGIA SCIENTIFICA E LINGUISTICA

Teaching Staff

MARIO FRANCESCO PAVONE - Module INFORMATICA - INF/01 - 5 CFU
LORENZO LUPO - Module Medical Statistics - MED/01 - 4 CFU
PAOLO GIUSEPPE CARUSO - Module LINGUA INGLESE - L-LIN/12 - 7 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• Medical Statistics
  

  The course will provide basic elements to let the student be able to describe individual and population based biological events through syntetic indeces. Moreover, the student should be able to identify and use elementary metodologies of analysis of numerical data.

Course Structure

• Medical Statistics
  

  Classroom lecturers using blackboard and tracing papers

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Detailed Course Content

• Medical Statistics
  

  1. Measurers: numerical, ordinal and nominal

  2. Descriptive measurers: central tendency and variability

  3. Probability and Bayes Theorem

  4. Probability distributions: binomial, Poisson and gaussian

  5. Hypothesis tests and their meaning

  6. Student t test, chi square

  7: Correlation and regression

  8. Epidemiology: sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, incidence and prevalence rates

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Textbook Information

• Medical Statistics
  

  BIOSTATISTICA

  M. Pagano, K. Gavreau

  Editor: Idelson Gnocchi

  Alternatively

  BIOSTATISTICA

  Wayne W. Daniel, Chad L. Cross

  Edizioni EdiSES

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