Description:

Developing skills for bio-tactician’s, biologists and pharmacists to be able to design their experiments, analyze the results’ significance and select most suitable statistical test.

Content:

1. Intro
• Introduction & definitions
• Population and samples
2. Variables
• Types of variables and scales of measurement
3. Description
• Measures of central tendency
• Measures of variability
4. Presentation
• Data presentation in tables
• Data presentation in graphs
5. Probability distribution
• Probability definitions
• Normal distribution
• Sampling distribution
6. Inferential statistics
• Estimation: Confidence intervals
• Hypotheses testing
7. Common test statistics
• Student t-test
• Paired t-test
8. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
9. Comparisons between proportions (Chi-square test)
10. Other tests
• Correlation and regression analysis
• Choice of statistical test
11. Study Designs
• Types of studies
• Clinical trials
12. Epidemiology
• Measure of association
• Screening tests