ECTS: 3.2
Course leader: Erik Thorlund Parner
Language: English
Graduate school: Faculty of Health
Graduate program: PH
Course fee: 3,840.00 DKK
Status: Course is open for application
Semester: Spring 2027
Application deadline: 03/12/2026
Cancellation deadline: 17/12/2026
Course type: Blended learning
Start date: 11/01/2027
Administrator: Anne Fabricius Søndergaard
Requirements for participation
Participants are expected to be familiar with their statistical package.
The course P1050/47 Basic Biostatistics Part 1 is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, 2027.
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).
Requirements for participation:
Participants are expected to be familiar (worked with data management) with their statistical package.
Aim:
The course provides the students with basic skills using the most common, simple statistical models and analyzes in medical research.
Learning outcomes:
- Document and handle data needed for a statistical analysis
- Chose a relevant statistical model for a given research question and evaluate the assumptions of the statistical analysis
- Perform a statistical analysis based on the chosen model
- Describe the results of the statistical analysis, and discuss the results in relation to the scientific question
- Make simple calculations of sample sizes for the planning of a comparative study
Workload:
The full workload of the course is expected to be 60 hours
Content:
Basic statistical concepts such as mean, standard deviation, model, estimate, test, p-value, and confidence interval. One and two sample problems, paired data. Non-parametric methods. The binomial distribution, and analysis of cross tabulated data. Model diagnostics. Power and sample size calculations. The course material illustrates the analysis using the statistical packages Stata and R.
Instructors:
Professor Erik Thorlund Parner and TBAs
Venue: Aarhus University, Aarhus (other)
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:
- 11 January 2027 08:00 - 15:00
- 18 January 2027 08:00 - 15:00
- 25 January 2027 08:00 - 15:00
- 01 February 2027 08:00 - 15:00