Introduction to Biostatistics using Stata®Last update: November 28, 2007Organizer: Metrika ConsultingDate: Saturday March 1, 2008 Place: Stockholm Language: English Deadline: Sign up before February 25, 2008 Cancellation policy: If you have signed up and need to cancel, you do not need to pay any fee if you cancel more than 11 days before the course starts (the dead-line for signing up). You will need to pay half the fee if you cancel less than 11 days before the course starts. Price: 3000 SEK, excl. VAT. Registration: Just write an email to Metrika Consulting Instructor: Nicola Orsini The National Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Phone: +46 8 52487837 Course descriptionA course designed to provide the participant with an understanding of the foundations of biostatistics and how useful the discipline is in tackling problems in the health sciences. Students will be introduced to descriptive statistics, graphical techniques, confidence intervals, correlation, and regression. Topics include: comparison of two means, correlation, linear regression, comparison of two proportions, analysis of contingency tables, and logistic regression.ParticipantsThe course is intended for anyone who wishes or needs to use Stata. No previous knowledge of Stata or of statistics is required, although familiarity with Microsoft Windows will be assumed. Students will gain the familiarity with Stata by practicing.Preliminary outline of the courseMorning session
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9:00 - 12:00 Morning Session 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch 13:00 - 16:00 Afternoon Session The students will have their hands on a keyboard with Stata running troughout the learning sessions. Each learning session will give equal weight to tutorials and practical exercises. Course materialLecture notes, datasets, exercises, and solutions will be available here for the students. |