Second part of our Biostatistics course begins March 12, 2010, at
statistics.com. This is an online introductory course of 4-week duration
with the following structure:
*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
Registration is $499 ($399 for academic). Required text for this course is
Medical Biostatistics, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Press). Further
details at http://www.statistics.com/ourcourses/biostat2/
<http://www.statistics.com/ourcourses/biostat2/>~A. Indrayan
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