Biostatistics Course

Date/Time
Date(s) - 17/03/2015 - 18/03/2015
8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location
Computer Lab 1

Category(ies)


Poster

Programme

Day 1

8.00 am – 8.30 am Registration
8.30 am – 10.00 am Basic concepts in biostatistics
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
Describe categorical & continuous data
Screening for missing values, outliers & extreme values
Checking for Normal Distribution
12.00 am – 1.00 pm Comparing means
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
Chi-square test
2.30 pm – 3.00 pm Nom-parametric tests
Mann-Whitney U test
Kruskall-Wallis test
3.00 pm – 5.00 pm Correlation
Pearson correlation coefficient test
Spearman correlation coefficient test

Day 2

8.30 am – 10.00 am Basic concepts in multivariate analysis
Relationship between variables
Causation
Confounding bias
10.00 am – 10.30 am Morning Break
10.30 am – 12.00 pm Linear regression
12.00 pm – 1.00 pm Two-way ANOVA & ANCOVA
Univariate GLM
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm Afternoon Break
2.00 pm – 3.00 pm MANOVA & MANCOVA
Multivariate GLM
3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Repeated measures ANOVA
4.00 pm – 5.00 pm Logistic regression

Payment

Please pay CASH to confirm your registration
to Sr Nurhakimah at COMMED
09-570-4593

Bookings

Bookings are closed for this event.

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