STATS 770 Introduction to Medical Statistics

Below description edited in year: 2018

Points: 15

Prereqs: STATS 20x and 210

Textbooks: Notes distributed in class

For Advice: Yalu Wen (Email: y.wen@auckland.ac.nz | extn: 83214)

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 risk, basic types of medical study, causation, ethical issues, and censoring, together with a review of common methodologies. The goal is to go from questions about health to quantitative questions about data, and, potentially, to answers.

Topics studied include: summaries of risk and health and their implications, confounding and causation, screening and diagnostic testing, estimation and study design.

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