Medicine and Surgery HT

Clinical research methodology. Evidence Based Medicine. Introduction to medical statistics. The art of reading numbers. Types of variables. Frequency distributions. Data synthesis and variability: indices of central tendency (analytical and position averages, quantiles) , dispersion indices (range of variation, variance, standard deviation, standard error, range, interquartile range, coefficient of variation). Graphic and analytical representation of phenomena: contingency tables and graphs (histograms and Cartesian diagrams, pie charts, bar charts, box plots) Demographic statistics. Indicators of the health status of a population, nosographic trends Standardized rates. Gaussian curve and use in medicine. Probability and main theorems, Bayes. Statistical inference: hypothesis testing.critical reading of scientific articles Confidence interval, critical reading of scientific articles Analysis of the relationship between variables: correlation and linear regression.

basic knowledge of mathematics

Bland M. Statistica Medica. APOGEO 2009. Norman GR, Streiner DL. Biostatistica. Tutto quello che avreste voluto sapere. Casa Editrice Ambrosiana 2015. Daniel WW, Cross CL. Biostatistica. Concetti di base per l'analisi statistica delle scienze dell'area medico-sanitaria. Edises 2019. Triola MM, Triola MF, Giraudo MT. Fondamenti di statistica. Per le discipline biomediche. Pearson 2013. teaching material on the moodle platform

mandatory

the test is evaluated out of 30, some questions may have different weights

teaching takes place frontally with the support of slides, students are encouraged to interact proactively