Learning objectives
Introduce the student to the logic of statistical thinking and its application to practical problems.
Course unit content
Review of general principles of statistical inference. Sampling distribution. Hypotheses and hypothesis tests. I and II type errors. Power of a test and operating curve. Parametric test : Student t-test, an overview of analysis of variance. Non-parametric test: Wilcoxon test, Mann-Whitney test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Friedman test, median test, Chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test.
Linear regression and correlation.
Overview of multivariate statistics: Main components. Discriminant analysis.Cluster analysis
Practical sessions with the statistical software R and SPSS on medical data.
Bibliography
1) Lecture notes
3) Sidney Siegel, N. John Castellan Jr. : Statistica non parametrica, ed. McGraw-Hill
4) 4) Internet resources and links