The course aims to convey to the students the basics of Medical Statistics by theoretical explanation flanked by exercise practice starting with the necessary preliminary knowledge of mathematics.
Preliminary knowledge: variables, constants, measurement scales, summations, products of sequences, percentages, ratios.
Combinatorics.
Collecting and organizing data.
Indices of central tendency.
Indices of dispersion.
Graphical representation of data.
Probability.
Statistical correlation: Cramer’s index, Bravais’s index.
Rates and proportions.
Epidemiological statistics.
P. B. Lantieri, D. Risso, G. Ravera - Elementi di Statistica Medica - McGraw-Hill, 2007