ECTS: 0.4
Course leader: Morten Schmidt
Language: English
Graduate school: Faculty of Health
Course fee: 480.00 DKK
Status: Course is finished
Semester: Fall 2022
Application deadline: 05/09/2022
Cancellation deadline: 05/09/2022
Course type: Classroom teaching
Start date: 13/09/2022
Administrator: Annette Poulsen
The course C312/01 Retire statistical significance: a world beyond p<0.05 is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, fall 2022.
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 understand what a p-value is and what it is not. Misconceptions in the use of p-values and statistical significance will be covered. Recommendations on how to report and interpretate research results will be provided.
Learning outcomes: By the end of the course the student will be able to understand the pitfalls of p-values and interpretate research results in light of random error.
Workload: The full workload of the course is expected to be 9,5 hours.
Content: The course will use a combination of lectures, examples, and discussions to cover the following topics:
- Elements of internal study validity (systematic and random errors)
- Statistical concepts: statistical inference, hypothesis testing, p-values, confidence intervals, and p-value function
- Clinical vs. statistical significance
- Misconceptions on p-values and statistical significance
- Key papers, persons, and arguments in the debate
- Exceptions where p-values are needed (multiple comparisons and test for trends)
- Recommendations on how to report and interpretate research results
- Practical approach to rejection of a reviewer's recommendations to add p-values
Instructors: Morten Schmidt and Erik Parner
Venue: Campus, building 1231, 8000 Aarhus C
Participation in the course is without cost for:
- PhD students, Health Research Year students and Health Research Honours Programme 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:
- 13 September 2022 08:00 - 16:00