Unit Medical Statistics with Elements of Computer Science
- Course
- Pharmacy
- Study-unit Code
- A003558
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Massimo Moretti
- Teachers
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- Massimo Moretti
- Hours
- 48 ore - Massimo Moretti
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Base
- Area
- Discipline matematiche, fisiche, informatiche e statistiche
- Academic discipline
- MED/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian.
- Contents
- General principles of statistics and epidemiology.
Risk analysis. - Reference texts
- Statistics:
Lecture notes are available on UniStudium.
Epidemiology:
Pontello M. & Auxilia F. "Igiene, Medicina Preventiva e salute Globale" - Piccin, Padova.
(Chapters: 3, 4, e 5; the book is also adopted for the course of Hygiene).
Or:
Lantieri P.B., Risso D., Ravera G. "Statistica Medica per le Professioni Sanitarie" - McGraw-Hill, 2004. - Educational objectives
- The learning experiences should help students in achieving attitudes and practices on common techniques used in statistics and epidemiology.
- Prerequisites
- None.
- Teaching methods
- Face-to-face lessons.
- Learning verification modality
- Written exam (closed-ended questions).
- Extended program
- Essentials of Medical Statistics:
Numerical/categorical variables.
Analysis of numerical outcomes: mean/median, standard deviation, standard error.
The normal distribution. Inferential statistics.
Comparison of two means: hypothesis tests and p-values. Student's t-test, ANOVA, Chi-square test.
Epidemiologic Methods:
Epidemiology: definition and scope. Rates of morbidity and mortality. Mortality tables. Population pyramids.
Study design: Observational and experimental epidemiology.
Ecological studies. Cross-sectional studies. Measures of disease frequency: prevalence and incidence.
Analytical epidemiology: cohort studies and case-control studies. Causal and/or noncausal association. Evaluation of relative risk (RR) and odds-ratio (OR); attributable risk.
Experimental epidemiology: preventive trials, randomized controlled trials.
Evidence-based medicine: systematic reviews and meta-analysis.
Risk Analysis:
IARC classification for carcinogenicity.