Course Get ready to work with biostatistics

The course, C262/13 Get ready to work with biostatistics, is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, autumn 2021.

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: At the end of the course, the PhD- or research-year student will be familiar with:

• 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

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

Recommended knowledge for participation: Basic knowledge on how to use Excel or GraphPad Prism

Instructors: Peter Nissen, Ole Halfdan Larsen, Eva Greibe

Venue: The Conference Centre, Fredrik Nielsens Vej 4, 8000 Aarhus C

• 15 September in Mogens Zieler Stuen
• 29 September in Preben Hornung Stuen

Participation in the course is without cost for:

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

Course dates:

• 15 September 2021 08:15 - 15:00
• 29 September 2021 08:15 - 14:15