Medicine and Surgery

Data collection and preliminary checks. Frequency distribution: simple and multiple. Graphical representation of frequency distribution. Central tendency indicators: mode, median, arithmetic mean, percentiles Variability indicators: variance, standard deviation, inter-quartile range Shape of frequency distribution. Elements of probability. Sampling. Random variables and probability distribution: The Normal Distribution, Student t Distribution. Tabulated probability values for the Standardized Normal Distribution. Sampling Distribution: Sampling Distribution of Mean, Sampling Distribution of the difference of two means Parameter estimation. Confidence intervals. Statistical hypothesis testing. Statistical Tests: χ2, z-test, Student-t, zero-order correlations.

- NOTES FROM THE LESSONS (SLIDES) - HANDBOOK: Wayne W. Daniel, & Chad L. Cross (2018, 10th Ed.). Biostatistics: a foundation for analysis in the health sciences. John Wiley & Sons.