Monday 20 August 2012

Biostatistics 2


William Weldon, the 19th century British zoologist, was present at the creation of modern biostatistics.  In 1893 he served, with Karl Pearson, on a Royal Committee "For the Purpose of Conducting Statistical Inquiry into the Variability of Organisms."  A year later, he spent considerable time tossing a set of 12 dice more than 26,000 times and recording the results.  Pearson used these data in his paper on the chi-square.

The Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com offers courses in a number of topics in biostatistics throughout the year. Statistics.com offers an online courses “Biostatistics 2”. This course covers clinical trial designs including randomized controlled trials, ROC curves, CI and tests for relative risk and odds ratio, and an introduction to survival analysis, and is taught by Dr. Abhaya Indrayan. For more details please visit at http://www.statistics.com/biostat2/.

Who Should Take This Course:
This non-mathematical course is specially designed for medical and health professionals who deal with medical data and want to acquire some statistical skills. These include nursing, pharmacy, laboratory technology and nutrition professionals beside physicians, surgeons and dentists.

Course Program:

Course outline: The course is structured as follows

SESSION 1: Introduction to Designs for Clinical Trials
  • Control group
  • Randomization and matching
  • Blinding and masking
  • One-way, two-way and repeated measures designs
  • Cross-over design

SESSION 2: ROC Curves
  • Review of sensitivity-specificity
  • Serial and parallel tests
  • ROC curve
  • Predictivity-based ROC curve
  • Clinical gains from a test

SESSION 3: Relative Risk (RR) and Odds Ratio (OR)
  • Definitions and applicability of RR and OR
  • CI and test of hypothesis for RR
  • CI and test of hypothesis for attributable risk
  • CI and test of hypothesis for OR

SESSION 4: Introductory Survival Analysis
  • Censored durations and need of special methods
  • Life table method
  • Kaplan-Meier method


Dr. Abhaya Indrayan, author of "Medical Biostatistics" (3rd ed., CRC Press), has also written a book on medical research methods. He is former Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at Delhi University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi. He has frequently provided biostatistical consultation to the World Health Organization, the World Bank and UNAIDS. Dr Indrayan has delivered the inaugural address at Biostatistics Workshop at Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology, NOIDA, been a Guest of Honor at Workshop on Designs and Sample Size at Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Chandigarh and presented papers in more than 20 international conferences. 

You will be able to ask questions and exchange comments with the Dr. Abhaya Indrayan via a private discussion board throughout the course.   The courses take place online at statistics.com in a series of 4 weekly lessons and assignments, and require about 15 hours/week.  Participate at your own convenience; there are no set times when you must be online. You have the flexibility to work a bit every day, if that is your preference, or concentrate your work in just a couple of days.

For Indian participants statistics.com accepts registration for its courses at special prices in Indian Rupees through its partner, the Center for eLearning and Training (C-eLT), Pune.

For India Registration and pricing, please visit us at www.india.statistics.com.

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