STATS 770 Introduction to Medical Statistics

Below description edited in year: 2013

Points: 15

For Advice: Roger Marshall (Email: rj.marshall@auckland.ac.nz | extn: 86363)

Taught: First Semester City

Website: STATS 770 website

STATS 770 provides a broad introduction to ideas of importance in medical statistics, such as measures of disease risk, types of disease, diagnosis, clinical and epidemiological studies, and reviews of common methodologies.

Topics studied include: Topics are covered under three general headings: treatment, risk and diagnosis. Treatment will cover clinical trial methodology; study design; sample size; and analysis. Risk will cover statistical measures of risk in epidemiology and their estimation; data sources; analysis of mortality data; epidemiological study designs. Diagnosis will cover ideas about the nature of disease, statistical and probabilistic approaches to diagnosis; diagnostic test theory; screening for disease; logistic and discriminant classifying models.

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