Biostatistics Course

Date/Time
Date(s) - 17/11/2014 - 18/11/2014
8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Location
Computer Lab, KOM

Category(ies)


Date: 17 and 18 November 2014
Venue: Computer Lab, Level 2, Kulliyyah of Medicine
Objective: To provide the knowledge and skill to analyse research data using common basic and advanced statistic tests
Target participants: Postgraduates (IIUM or non-IIUM) and any interested researchers
Estimated number of participants: 30
Fee: RM200 for IIUM staff or students, RM400 for others, Postgraduates students who signed for Biostatistics course (STA6112) only need to pay RM50 for the food & notes

You registration is CONFIRMED only after payment made.
For payment, please visit our department. Payment by CASH.
Temporary receipt shall be issued. Official receipt will be given during the registration on 17th Nov 2014.

Poster

Day 1

Time Topic
8.30 am – 9.00 am Registration Sr. Hakimah
9.30 am – 10.30 am Basic concepts in biostatistics Dr Htike Myat Phyu
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)
10.30 am – 11.00 am Morning Break
11.00 am – 12.00 pm Descriptive Statistics Dr Htike Myat Phyu
Describe categorical & continuous data
Screening for missing values, outliers & extreme values
Checking for Normal Distribution
12.00 am – 1.00 pm Comparing means Dr Htike Myat Phyu
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 Dr Htike Myat Phyu
Chi-square test
2.30 pm – 3.00 pm Nom-parametric tests Dr Htike Myat Phyu
Mann-Whitney U test
Kruskall-Wallis test
3.00 pm – 4.30 pm Correlation Dr Htike Myat Phyu
Pearson correlation coefficient test
Spearman correlation coefficient test

Day 2

Time Topic
9.30 am – 10.30 am Basic concepts in multivariate analysis AP Dr Jamalludin Ab Rahman
Relationship between variables
Causation
Confounding bias
10.30 am – 11.00 am Morning Break
11.00 am – 12.00 pm Linear regression AP Dr Jamalludin Ab Rahman
12.00 pm – 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

Materials:

  1. Data 1 (NCD) – Dr Htike
  2. Data 2 (Advanced Biostat) – Dr Jamal

Bookings

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