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Short course: Biostatistics for Health Care Providers

Course Description and Objectives

The Division of Biostatistics in the Department of Medicine will present a short course in biostatistics that is designed especially for health care providers and other researchers in the health sciences. This course will consist of three sessions. Sessions I and II will cover basic principles, design of medical research studies, standard statistical tests and data analyses, and data management. Session III will focus on more advanced topics, including multiple linear and logistic regression, survival analysis, longitudinal data and genetic analysis. Registrants may choose to attend Sessions I and II, II and III or I, II and III.

At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:

  • Recognize and understand statistical methods commonly seen in medical literature
  • Recognize common study designs used in medical research
  • Communicate with statisticians on complex study design and analysis
  • Understand basic concepts of data management
  • Identify appropriate use of statistical procedures when given a common study design
  • Perform simple statistical analyses under the guidance of a statistician
Register for the upcoming Short Course
  Spring 2008
    When:  
      May 6 - 8, 2008
    Where:
      Conference Room 1110
Health Information and Translational Science Building
410 W. 10th Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202
   
How to Register:
     
1. Download, print, fill out, and mail in the following registration form:
     
Registration Form
To view and print the registraton you will need Microsoft Word.

2.  Mail completed registration form and payment to:
     
Sheila Chadwick
Indiana University School of Medicine, Division of Biostatistics
410 W. 10th Street, Suite 3000
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3002, or fax to: (317) 274-2678.

  Additionally, you can fax your registration to
      (317) 274-2678
Attn: Sheila Chadwick

Syllabus:

SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL BOOK

Participants are encouraged to bring to the course a copy of the book:

Basic and Clinical Biostatistics, 4th edition, © 2004, by Dawson-Saunders and Trapp, ISBN# 0071410171.

The book will be available for $55.00 plus tax at:

IUPUI Medical and Law Bookstore
Student Union Building
620 Union Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46202
The bookstore phone number is (317) 274-7167

Session I
  Study Design - Types of study designs with emphasis on observational studies
  Hypothesis Testing & Confidence Interval Estimation - Hypothesis test, type I and type II errors, statistical significance vs. practical significance, confidence interval, sample size estimation
  Comparisons of Means - Paired T-test, group T-test, Wilcoxon, Mann Whitney, one-way ANOVA, multiple comparisons, non-parametric ANOVA, sample size estimation
  Analysis of Categorical Data - Estimation and testing of single proportions, two proportions, tests of association
Session II
  Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests - Sensitivity, specificity, ROC curves, measures of agreement
  Issues in Clinical Trials - Design, analysis, interim reviews, ethics, and reporting of clinical trials
  Correlation and Simple Linear Regression - Correlation (Spearman & Pearson), regression, prediction, model evaluation
  Basics of Data Management - Database design, form design, data entry
Session III
  Multiple Linear & Logistic Regression - Interpretation of coefficients, R2, odds ratios, logistic regression
  Analysis of Longitudinal Studies - Introduction, examples, efficiency and sample size, analysis, missing values
  Survival Analysis - Censoring vs. failure, Kaplan-Meier curves, log-rank test, proportional hazards model
  Design of Genetic Studies - Review of basic genetics, study designs for gene searching, linkage and association methods based on modern molecular laboratory techniques

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