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Clinical Biostatistics - BCA806
The aim of this unit is to enable students to use statistical methods of particular relevance to evidence-based health care and to advise clinicians on the application of these methods and interpretation of the results. This unit comprises the following four topics: continuous quality improvement (special and common causes of variation, Shewhart, CUSUM and EWMA charts); clinical agreement (kappa statistics, Bland-Altman method, intra class correlation); diagnostic tests (sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, ROC curves, likelihood ratio); and systematic reviews (estimating effect, heterogeneity, publication bias). These topics are important for practising biostatisticians, especially those working in clinical epidemiology or, more generally, evidence-based health care.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| When Offered: | S1 External - Session 1, External (On-campus dates: None) |
| Staff Contact(s): | Associate Professor Gillian Heller |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Statistics Faculty of Science |
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