William Weldon,
the 19th century British zoologist, was present at the creation of modern
biostatistics. In 1893 he served, with
Karl Pearson, on a Royal Committee "For the Purpose of Conducting
Statistical Inquiry into the Variability of Organisms." A year later, he spent considerable time
tossing a set of 12 dice more than 26,000 times and recording the results. Pearson used these data in his paper on the
chi-square.
The Institute for
Statistics Education at Statistics.com offers courses in a number of topics in
biostatistics throughout the year. Statistics.com offers an online courses “Biostatistics
2”. This course covers clinical trial designs including randomized
controlled trials, ROC curves, CI and tests for relative risk and odds ratio,
and an introduction to survival analysis, and is taught by Dr. Abhaya Indrayan. For
more details please visit at http://www.statistics.com/biostat2/.
Who Should Take
This Course:
This
non-mathematical course is specially designed for medical and health
professionals who deal with medical data and want to acquire some statistical
skills. These include nursing, pharmacy, laboratory technology and nutrition
professionals beside physicians, surgeons and dentists.
Course Program:
Course outline: The course
is structured as follows
SESSION
1: Introduction to Designs for Clinical Trials
- Control group
- Randomization and matching
- Blinding and masking
- One-way, two-way and repeated measures designs
- Cross-over design
SESSION
2: ROC Curves
- Review of sensitivity-specificity
- Serial and parallel tests
- ROC curve
- Predictivity-based ROC curve
- Clinical gains from a test
SESSION
3: Relative Risk (RR) and Odds Ratio (OR)
- Definitions and applicability of RR and OR
- CI and test of hypothesis for RR
- CI and test of hypothesis for attributable
risk
- CI and test of hypothesis for OR
SESSION
4: Introductory Survival Analysis
- Censored durations and need of special methods
- Life table method
- Kaplan-Meier method
Dr. Abhaya
Indrayan, author of "Medical Biostatistics" (3rd ed., CRC Press), has
also written a book on medical research methods. He is former Professor and
Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at Delhi
University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi. He has frequently provided
biostatistical consultation to the World Health Organization, the World Bank
and UNAIDS. Dr Indrayan has delivered the inaugural address at Biostatistics
Workshop at Institute of Cytology and Preventive Oncology, NOIDA, been a Guest
of Honor at Workshop on Designs and Sample Size at Postgraduate Institute of
Medical Sciences and Research, Chandigarh and presented papers in more than 20
international conferences.
You will be able to ask questions
and exchange comments with the Dr. Abhaya
Indrayan via
a private discussion board throughout the course. The courses take
place online at statistics.com in a series of 4 weekly lessons and assignments,
and require about 15 hours/week. Participate at your own convenience;
there are no set times when you must be online. You have the flexibility to
work a bit every day, if that is your preference, or concentrate your work in
just a couple of days.
For Indian participants
statistics.com accepts registration for its courses at special prices in Indian
Rupees through its partner, the Center for eLearning and Training (C-eLT),
Pune.
Call: 020 66009116
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