IACOBELLI SIMONA
(programma)
Defining the objectives; Methods of randomisation; Laboratory experiments; Experimental units; Types of studies; Randomised studies; Cohort studies;
Case-control studies; Cross-sectional studies; Types of data; Frequency distributions; Histograms and other frequency graphs; Shapes; Of frequency
distributions; Cumulative distributions; Median and quantiles; The means (arithmetic, geometric…); Variance and standard deviation; Degrees of freedom;
Rates and proportions; Significant figures; Presenting tables; Pie chart; Bar charts; Scatter diagrams; Misleading graphs; Probability; Properties of
probabilities; Conditional probabilities; Bayes formula; Probability distributions and random variables; The binomial distribution; The Poisson distribution;
Probability for continuous variables; The normal distribution; Properties of the normal Distribution; The normal plot; P-P plot; Standardised normal table;
Sampling and sampling distributions; Standard error of a sample mean; Standard error; Of a proportion; Confidence intervals; The difference between two
means; The difference between two proportions; Testing a hypothesis; Principles of significance tests; The null hypothesis; Significance; Levels and types of
errors; The p-value; One and two sided tests; Comparing the means of large samples; Comparing two proportions; Comparing the means of small samples
(the t-distribution); Comparing two variances (the F-distribution); Scatter diagrams; Regression; Using the regression line for prediction; Analysis of
Residuals; Significance test for the regression coefficient; Correlation; Significance test for the correlation coefficient; The Mann Whitney U test; The
Wilcoxon matched pairs test; Spearman’s rankCorrelation coefficient; Kendall’s rank correlation coefficient; Parametric or non Parametric methods; The
chi-squared test for association; Tests for 2 by 2 tables; Yates continuity correction for the 2 by 2 table; The odds ratio; Standard error for the log odds ratio.
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