Course Get ready to work with Biostatistics (Research Year)

The course C262/23 Get ready to work with Biostatistics (Research Year) is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, spring 2024.

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

Requirements for participation: None. We recommend that the participants use the statistical software GraphPad Prism for the course (free versions are available online).

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 around 20 hours (including homework).

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 analysis
• Presentation of data using different plots
• Regression analysis

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

Venue: Aarhus University

Participation in the course is without cost for:

• PhD students, Health Research Year students from Aarhus University
• PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration
• PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses

Course dates:

• 01 February 2024 08:15 - 15:00
• 23 February 2024 08:15 - 14:15