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METODOLOGIA DELLA RICERCA ED EPIDEMIOLOGIA

Teaching Staff

MASSIMO COSTANZO - Module STATISTICA MEDICA EPIDEMIOLOGICA - MED/01 - 4 CFU
FABIO ROBERTO VITELLO - Module Information processing system - ING-INF/05 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• Information processing system
  

  The course has as its aims as to reach a scientific-disciplinary set of skills related to the design and implementation of information processing systems, as well as their management and use in different application contexts.

  The course will be supplied the basics and technologies related to the different aspects of a system of information processing. Operating systems, Computers network and databases will be introduced. The usage of word processing and spreadsheet software will be explored.

Course Structure

• Information processing system
  

  Lectures

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Detailed Course Content

• STATISTICA MEDICA EPIDEMIOLOGICA
  

  .Brief introduction to epistemology of knowledge

  2. Scientific use

  3. Types of measurement scales: nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio scales

  4. Representation of data in graphs and tables

  5. Central indicators, variability indicators, asymmetry and kurtosis

  6. Probability, sum and product principle

  7. Probability application

  8. Diagnostic tests: sensitivity, specificity, predictive values

  9. Relative risk and odds ratio

  10. Probabiloity distributions: binomial, Poisson and normal

  11. Standardized Gaussian curve

  12. Inference: central limit theorem ,sample distribution of the mean and standard error

  13. Confidence interval for the mean and variance

  14. Hypothesis test: null and alternative hypotheses

  15. Significance tests between two groups: Sudent t test for dependent and independent groups

  16. Contingency tables and chi square test

  17. Brief description of linear correlation and regression

  18. Non parametric-tests

  19. Scientific paper

• Information processing system
  

  1 Fundamentals of Computer Science

  • Computer science and Information system
  • Computer: history
  • Analogic and digital signal, numbering systems, binary numeral system, the bit
  • Hardware and Software
  • Computer organization ad design
  • Algorithm

  2 Operating system, software for information processing, organization and management

  • The modern operating system
  • Computer network
  • Databases
  • Word processos
  • Spreadsheet

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Textbook Information

• STATISTICA MEDICA EPIDEMIOLOGICA
  

  Colton T (1991) Statistica Medica. Piccin: Padova. Armitage P, Berry G (1996) Statistica Medica - Metodi statistici per la ricerca in medicina. McGraw-Hill Libri Italia srl: Milano M. R. Costanzo, (2018). “Statistica sperimentale per le professioni sanitarie”, Createspace by Amazon

• Information processing system
  

  Dennis Curtin, Kim Foley, Kunal Sen, Cathy Morin, Agostino Marengo e Alessandro Pagan; INFORMATICA DI BASE 6/ED CON CONNECT E EBOOK; VI ed., McGraw-Hill.

  Daniele Bochicchio, Stefano Mostarda; HTML 5 con CSS e Javascript; Hoepli EAN: 9788820385255

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