Biostatistics Workshop No 2/2015

Date: 12-13 Oct 2015

Venue: Computer Lab, Level 2, KOM IIUM

Programme

Day 1

Time Topic
8.00 am – 8:30 am Registration Sr. Hakimah
8:30 am – 10:00 am Basic concepts in biostatistics AP Dr Jamalludin Ab Rahman
Type of statistic (descriptive vs. analytical, univariate vs. multivariate)  
Type of variable (dependent vs. independent)  
Type of data (continuous vs. categorical)  
Distribution of data  
Summarizing data  
Central tendency (mean, median & mode)  
Spread/dispersion (e.g. SD, interquartile range)  
Hypothesis testing (p-value & Confidence Interval)  
10:00 am – 10:30 am Morning Break
10.30 am – 12.00 pm Descriptive Statistics AP Dr Jamalludin Ab Rahman
Describe categorical & continuous data  
Screening for missing values, outliers & extreme values  
Checking for Normal Distribution  
12.00 am – 1.00 pm Comparing means AP Dr Jamalludin Ab Rahman
Independent sample t-test  
One-way ANOVA  
Paired t-test  
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm Afternoon Break
2.00 pm – 2.30 pm Comparing proportions AP Dr Jamalludin Ab Rahman
Chi-square test  
2.30 pm – 3.00 pm Nom-parametric tests AP Dr Jamalludin Ab Rahman
Mann-Whitney U test  
Kruskall-Wallis test  
3.00 pm – 5.00 pm Correlation AP Dr Jamalludin Ab Rahman
Pearson correlation coefficient test  
Spearman correlation coefficient test  

Day 2

Time Topic
8.30 am – 10.00 am Basic concepts in multivariate analysis AP Dr Jamalludin Ab Rahman
Relationship between variables  
Causation  
Confounding bias  
10.00 am – 10.30 am Morning Break
10.30 am – 11.30 pm Linear regression AP Dr Jamalludin Ab Rahman
11.30 am – 1.00 pm Two-way ANOVA & ANCOVA AP Dr Jamalludin Ab Rahman
Univariate GLM  
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm Afternoon Break
2.00 pm – 3.00 pm MANOVA & MANCOVA AP Dr Jamalludin Ab Rahman
Multivariate GLM  
3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Repeated measures ANOVA AP Dr Jamalludin Ab Rahman
4.00 pm – 5.00 pm Logistic regression AP Dr Jamalludin Ab Rahman

Material

  1. Dataset
  2. spss22

About the author

Jamal Rahman

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