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Postgraduate Course: Medical Statistics - Uses and Abuses Part 2 (HEIN11029)

Course Outline
School School of Clinical Sciences and Community Health College College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Course type Standard Availability Not available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken) SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) Credits 10
Home subject area Health Information Other subject area None
Course website None Taught in Gaelic? No
Course description This course aims to equip students with knowledge of advanced quantitative methods (statistics) used in medical research, and develop a critical awareness of their use by themselves and others. Skills will be developed to enable students to use such techniques appropriately in their own research.

The course will consider; Power, effect size, and confidence intervals. The general linear model and ANOVA. ANCOVA. Latent variable methods: exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Factor rotation, path and structural models (sem). Multilevel modelling. Meta-analysis: measures of effect size, the combination of effect sizes and the File drawer problem. Survival analysis: Life tables, Kaplan-Meier survival curves, Logrank test, hazard ratio, Cox proportional hazard analysis. Re-samplying techniques. Bayesian approaches.

All topics with be considered within the context of the published research literature and statistical validity. Both knowledge and skills will be assessed, by critiquing an appropriate article and analysing a dataset.
Entry Requirements
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1) WebCT enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
No Classes have been defined for this Course
First Class First class information not currently available
No Exam Information
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
a. Judge the appropriateness of a range of advanced statistical techniques to diverse research questions
b. Apply a range of advance statistical techniques
c. Report results using agreed conventions
d. Interpret results and communicate conclusions with due regard to the level of expertise of the target audience
e. Appraise the assumptions underlying different statistical techniques and critically evaluate the regard given to them in the published literature
Assessment Information
Course assessments are aligned with the learning outcomes. Summative work will be approximately 3000 words in total and be approved by the Board of Examiners on the recommendation of the Course Leader. Combined with formative assessments, it may incorporate one or more of the following:
&· Essay style analysis or commentary
&· Scenario analysis
&· Critical/Significant incident analysis
&· Reflective practice accounts
&· Individual presentations
&· Multiple Choice Questions
&· Other relevant assessments
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
Keywords Medical Statistics
Contacts
Course organiser Course secretary Miss Ashley Stevenson
Tel: 0131-527-3410
Email: a.stevenson@rcsed.ac.uk
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