Course Get ready to work with Biostatistics

ECTS: 0.8

Course leader: Eva Greibe

Language: English

Graduate school: Faculty of Health

Graduate program: ClinFO

Course fee: 960.00 DKK

Status: Course is finished

Semester: Spring 2023

Application deadline: 28/03/2023

Cancellation deadline: 11/04/2023

Course type: Classroom teaching

Start date: 25/04/2023

Administrator: Thilde Møller Risgaard

The course C262/20 Get ready to work with Biostatistics is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, spring 2023.

Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).

Aim: To achieve knowledge on data documentation, basic statistical tests and the assumptions for performing these tests.

Learning outcomes: 

  • How to test for assumptions for basic statistical tests
  • How to perform basic statistical tests
  • How to present results in tables
  • How to perform a sample size calculation

Workload: The full workload of the course is expected to be 19 hours

Content: The participant will gain knowledge on:

  • Different types of variables (continuous and categorical variables)
  • Descriptive statistics
  • Test for Gaussian distribution
  • Sample size calculation
  • Parametric statistics and non-parametric statistics - paired data - unpaired data
  • Chi2 tests and Fishers exact test
  • Repeated measurements: One-way analyses
  • Presentation of data using different plots
  • Regression analysis

Instructors: Ole Halfdan Larsen, Peter Henrik Nissen, Eva Greibe

Venue: Aarhus University, Aarhus

Participation in the course is without cost for:

PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses

Course dates:

  • 25 April 2023 08:15 - 15:00
  • 17 May 2023 08:15 - 14:15