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Laurea magistrale a ciclo unico in Medicina e chirurgia - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
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Physics-Medical statistics - STATISTICA MEDICA (2019/2020)
Teaching code
4S02595
Credits
6
Coordinator
Not yet assigned
Language
Italian
Location
VERONA
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
MED/01 - MEDICAL STATISTICS
To show the organization of the course that includes this module, follow this link: Course organization
The teaching is organized as follows:
Esercitazioni di Statistica Medica
Lezioni di Statistica Medica
Learning outcomes
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MM: Esercitazioni di Statistica Medica
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Students will use a spreadsheet (Excel) to compute simple statistics.
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OBJECTIVES The course is aimed at presenting basic principles of medical statistics, necessary to study groups of individuals by taking into account inter-individual variability. In particular, the medical student will learn to: 1. Create and interpret a frequency table, starting from individual data 2. Represent data pertaining to a biological phenomenon with adequate graphics 3. Compute percentiles (or other quantiles) of a biological variable 4. Esitmate the relative risk associated with an exposure 5. Estimate sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values of a diagnostic procedure 6. Compute confidence intervals for means and proportions 7. Perform a statistical test to evaluate significance of differences between two means or two proportions. 8. Estimate the relation between two quantitative variables by a linear regression model
Program
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Practical exercises dealing with the theoretical program will be performed.
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SYLLABUS The following topics will be addressed: 1. Measurements performed in biomedicine: precision, accuracy, repeatability and validity. 2. Basic statistical methods to describe, interpret and present quantitative information collected on groups of individuals or other statistical units. 3. Probability: definitions, basic rules to compute probabilities and expected events. 4. Evaluation of a screening procedure when a gold standard is available: sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, positive and negative likelihood ratio. Intra-rater and inter-rater agreement. 5. Main probabilistic models, useful to approximate the distribution of a biological variables within a population (binomial and gaussian distributions). 6. Basic design in observational and experimental research: random sampling and randomization. 7. Main inferential methods: confidence intervals to estimate parameters, and hypothesis testing to base decisions on experimental/observational evidence. 8. Basic concepts of multivariable statistical analysis: multiple linear regression to study quantitative outcomes, logistic model to study dichotomous outcomes, and Cox model to study survival. 9. Evidence-Based Medicine; systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Bibliography
| Activity | Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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| Esercitazioni di Statistica Medica | Verlato G, Zanolin ME | Esercizi di Statistica Medica, Informatica ed Epidemiologia | Libreria Cortina Editrice, Verona | 2000 | ||
| Lezioni di Statistica Medica | Daniel WW, Cross CL | Biostatistica (Edizione 3) | Edises | 2019 | libro più adatto al corso di Statistica Medica most appropriate book for the course of Medical Statistics | |
| Lezioni di Statistica Medica | Norman G, Streiner D | Biostatistica: quello che avreste voluto sapere… (Edizione 2) | Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano | 2015 | ||
| Lezioni di Statistica Medica | Swinscow TDV, Campbell MJ | Le basi della Statistica per scienze bio-mediche | Edizioni Minerva Medica S.p.A., Torino | 2004 | libro sintetico | |
| Lezioni di Statistica Medica | Bland M | Statistica Medica | APOGEO, Milano | 2009 | 9788850327386 |
Examination Methods
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MM: Esercitazioni di Statistica Medica
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In the second part of the exam students will have to solve problems of inferential statistics, which will require to compute confidence intervals and/or to perform simple statistical tests. For this purpose, students will be enabled to use a computer equipped with a spreadsheet.
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TYPE OF EXAMS A written exam will be performed in the computer lab. In the first part, students will have to answer about 30 multiple choice questions with 5-8 possible answers.
