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Basic descriptive statistics and graphics
Slides accompanying session covering: concepts of descriptive statistics; the distribution of categorical and continuous data; describing a sample using appropriate descriptive statistics
Correlation and linear regression
Slides accompanying session covering: analysing data with two continuous variables; the concepts behind correlation; interpreting results from a correlation analysis
Diagnostic tests - comparing a measurement to a 'true' value or a 'Gold standard'
Slides accompanying session covering: diagnostic test methods; sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), likelihood ratios; ROC curve
How to read and critically appraise a paper
Slides accompanying session providing an overview of how to read a paper, applying critical appraisal to understand and evaluate its content
Hypothesis testing and confidence intervals
Slides accompanying session on significance tests and confidence intervals (CIs)
Introduction to medical statistics
Slides accompanying session covering: hypothesis, study designs and statistical inference; types of variable; data checking; choosing an appropriate statistical test; analysing, reporting and interpreting statistical results
Introduction to study types and designs - quantitative and qualitative studies
Slides accompanying session introducing health research, comparing quantitative and qualitative methods, and overviewing main quantitative study designs and their uses
Introduction to the Research Project - BM5 and BM(EU)
Slides accompanying session introducing the Year 3 research project
Qualitative studies in research and clinical practice
Slides accompanying session on qualitative research methods
Quantitative measures in cross-sectional, cohort and case-control studies
Slides accompanying session covering: Prevalence; Incidence proportion; Incidence rate; Absolute risk difference; Relative risk; Odds ratio
Randomised controlled trials and cohort studies: design issues and their role in clinical practice
Slides accompanying session on randomised controlled trials (RCTs)
Repeatability, reliability, validity: statistical methods for measurement studies
Slides accompanying session covering; validity; repeatability and reliability; statistical analysis; interpretation of results
Survival analysis and logistic regression
Slides accompanying session covering: survival methods; life tables; Kaplan-Meier curves; Cox regression; Logistic regression
Teaching and learning for RMH - session 1
Slides accompanying session on the theory of teaching and learning
Teaching and learning for RMH - session 2
Slides accompanying lecture on planning a teaching session
Tests for categorical outcome data
The Chi-squared test, Fisher's exact test, McNemar's test and Kappa
Tests for continuous outcome - parametric vs non-parametric methods
Slides accompanying session on tests for continuous outcome, including: one sample t test / Sign test or Wilcoxon signed ranks test; independent samples t test / Mann-Whitney U test; paired samples t test / Wilcoxon signed ranks test; analysis of variance (ANOVA) / Kruskal-Wallis test
Using information resources for evidence-based medicine
Resources from Medline, the Cochrane Library and NHS Evidence