96498 - FUNDAMENTALS OF STATISTICS FOR HEALTHCARE

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The course introduces the students to the essential concepts of statistical measurement, probability, and analysis in the healthcare domain. By attending this course students will be able to understand published research and to participate in more advanced courses in statistics and econometrics. Students will be acquainted with the fundamentals of statistical measurement with a specific focus on health-related data collection including qualitative data. The student will be introduced to the principles of probabilistic sampling and randomization. By the end of the course, students will learn to apply and interpret basic descriptive statistics using statistical software and will be introduced to the basics of inference and multivariate statistics.

Contenuti

• Descriptive statistics: measures of central tendency, measures of dispersions and graphical displays
• Random variables and probability distributions, the Normal Distribution, the Standard Normal Distribution, the Student’s T distribution
• Populations and samples, point estimation and confidence intervals for the population mean for the case of known and unknown variance
• Hypothesis testing for the mean and for the difference between two means

Testi/Bibliografia

• Rosner, B. (2016) “Fundamentals of Biostatistics”, Cengage.
  
• Agresti, A. (2018) "Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences", 5th edition. Pearson
• Plichta Kellar, S.B. and Kelvin, E.A. (2013) "Munro's statistical methods for health care research”. Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Metodi didattici

During the course theoretical and practical sessions will be held. During practical sessions empirical knowledge of the proposed methods will be reached through real-world case studies and exercises performed using Microsoft Excel.

The UNIBO e-learning platform (VIRTUALE) will be used to share teaching materials and to assign periodical home assignments to students.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

The course has a required cumulative final examination. You must take, and pass, the final examination to receive a passing grade in the course. The final exam will be a written test (computer based). Students are required to enrol using Almaesami.

The test consists in three sections:

1) multiple choice/short-answers section (35% of Exam Score, 6 questions);

2) free response section requiring interpretatin of statistical outputs (20% of Exam Score, 2 questions);

3) practical section with Excel (45% of Exam Score, 5 questions).

The test duration is 75 minutes.

(Please notice that the test structure might change; any modifications will be communicated in class).

The grading system is on a 0-30 range, the following grid applies:

• <18 failed
• 18-23 sufficient
• 24-27 good
• 28-30 very good
• 30 cum laude honors

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

The following tools will be available on the UNIBO e-learning platform (VIRTUALE)

• Slides/lecture notes: summarising theoretical concepts shown in class
  
• Exercises and Solutions which will be regularly proposed to students
• Miscellanea: exercises, focus notes, sample tests will be uploaded when needed

Orario di ricevimento

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