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Clinical Biostatistics - BCA806
The aim of this unit is to enable students to use correctly 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. Unit content: Clinical agreement (kappa statistics, Bland-Altman agreement method, intraclass correlation); statistical process control (special and common causes of variation, quality control charts); meta-analysis estimating treatment effect, assessing heterogeneity, publication bias; application for randomized clinical trials, diagnostic tests and observational studies; advanced topics in clinical trials (cross-over trials, equivalence trials).
Because of the multi-institutional nature of the BCA units, there is an early cut-off for enrolment in this unit. These dates are:
Session 1: 20 February 2015
Session 2: 24 July 2015
| 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 and Engineering |
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