Bioinformatics

The course has the objective to deepen the practical understanding of the use of probability and statistics in the context of epidemiological/biomedical research. In particular the students will learn the differences between the main epidemiological study designs, suitable measures of treatment/exposure effect , the concepts of bias, variability, confounding and causality in epidemiology. They will also learn the concept and application of linear regression and have an introduction to logistic regression. Furthermore they will learn how to manage data and apply statistical methods using the software Stata.