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1b - Statistical Methods

Statistics Index

Author: Professor Michael J Campbell, University of Sheffield

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  • Elementary Probability Theory
  • Methods for the Quantification of Uncertainty
  • Estimation of Confidence Intervals
  • Independence of Events
  • Conditional Probability
  • Statistical Distributions (e.g. Normal, Poisson, Binomial) and their uses
  • Sampling Distributions
  • Principles of Making Inferences from a Sample to a Population
  • Measures of Location and Dispersion and their appropriate uses
  • Graphical methods in Statistics
  • Hypothesis Testing
  • Type I and Type II errors
  • Problems of Multiple Comparisons
  • Parametric and Non-parametric tests for comparing two or more groups
  • Sample size and statistical power
  • Regression and correlation
  • The appropriate use, objective and value of multiple linear regression
  • Multiple logistic regression
  • Principles of life-tables and Cox regression
  • Comparisons of survival rates
  • Heterogeneity: funnel plots
  • The role of Bayes' theorem
  • Rates definitions
  • Glossary
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