Universitat Internacional de Catalunya - BarcelonaBiostatistics
Module: Medicina social, habilidades de comunicación e iniciación a la investigación
Matter: Salud pública: Bioestadística
Main language of instruction: Spanish
Head instructor
Dra. Cristina LIDÓN - clidon@uic.es
Office hours
Dr. Cristina Lidón Moyano (clidon@uic.es)
Dr. Juan Carlos Martín Sánchez (jcmartin@uic.es)
This subject is oriented to prepare the students with the necessary tools to critically analyze research papers, which can be of interest in the field of biomedical sciences, published in scientific magazines. As well as, provide to the students instruments so that they can elaborate and carry out projects of investigation.
The methodology employed in this subject will consist in theoretical presentations (31%) and methods of the case and practical in laboratory with computer (69%).
No previous criteria are needed to take this subject.
• Understand the concepts and basic statistical and epidemiological methods in health sciences
• To enable the student to perform basic biostatistical techniques with a computer software specific for biostatistics.
• To train students for critical reading of scientific articles.
Block 1: Introduction to research
Introduction to research
Research in Medicine and Health Sciences
Statistical method
Types and description of variable
Block 2: Probability
Random experiment
Operations with events
Probability
Conditional probability
Total Probabilities Theorem
Bayes theorem
Discrete and continuous random variable
Block 3: Descriptive statistics
Univariate descriptive statistics:
Frequency distribution
Central tendency measures
Dispersion measures
Position measures
Graphic representation
Shape measures
Bivariate descriptive statistics:
Joint frequency distributions
Marginal frequencies
Conditional frequencies
Association & dependency measures
Regression line
Block 4: Statistical inference
Statistical inference (I):
Basic concepts of probability
Statistical Sampling
Introduction to the inference
Univariate statistical inference (II):
Point stimation
Confidence intervals
Hypothesis testing
Bivariate statistical inference:
Difference of two proportions
Differentiates of two means
Correlation and regression line
Block 5: Calculation of the sample size and types of sampling
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