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Slides accompanying session covering: concepts of descriptive statistics; the distribution of categorical and continuous data; describing a sample using appropriate descriptive statistics
Slides accompanying session covering: analysing data with two continuous variables; the concepts behind correlation; interpreting results from a correlation analysis
Slides accompanying session covering: diagnostic test methods; sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), likelihood ratios; ROC curve
Slides accompanying session providing an overview of how to read a paper, applying critical appraisal to understand and evaluate its content
Slides accompanying session on significance tests and confidence intervals (CIs)
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
Slides accompanying session introducing health research, comparing quantitative and qualitative methods, and overviewing main quantitative study designs and their uses
Slides accompanying session introducing the Year 3 research project
Slides accompanying session on qualitative research methods
Slides accompanying session covering: Prevalence; Incidence proportion; Incidence rate; Absolute risk difference; Relative risk; Odds ratio
Slides accompanying session on randomised controlled trials (RCTs)
Slides accompanying session covering; validity; repeatability and reliability; statistical analysis; interpretation of results
Slides accompanying session covering: survival methods; life tables; Kaplan-Meier curves; Cox regression; Logistic regression
Slides accompanying session on the theory of teaching and learning
Slides accompanying lecture on planning a teaching session
The Chi-squared test, Fisher's exact test, McNemar's test and Kappa
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
Resources from Medline, the Cochrane Library and NHS Evidence