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Università degli Studi di Parma Università degli Studi di Parma
Second cycle degree course in
Nursing and midwifery sciences
Università degli Studi di Parma
Department of Medicine and Surgery

INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS
cod. 19771

Academic year 2019/20
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Sistemi di elaborazione delle informazioni (ING-INF/05)
Field
Scienze informatiche applicate alla gestione sanitaria
Type of training activity
Characterising
24 hours
of face-to-face activities
3 credits
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course unit
in ITALIAN
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exam calls

Integrated course unit module: METHODS OFNURSING AND MIDWIFERY RESEARCH II

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Learning objectives

Introduce to the student the use of modern information processing systems and make it able to autonomously produce models and data elaborations of increasing complexity.

Prerequisites

basic knowledge of univariate statistics.

Course unit content

The course will cover the use of various types of software, particularly developed for Statistics and numerical calculation, and the elaboration of clinical and biological data.

Full programme

Introduction to R, Jasp, Jamovi,
IBM-SPSS.
Descriptive analysis. Exploring data with graphs.
Non-parametric methods and models.
Correlation and regression.
ANOVA, ANCOVA and Repeated measures ANOVA. Factor models.
Logistic Regression.
Survival analysis.

Bibliography

Notes and material of the lessons.
Internet resources

Some hopefully useful texts:
1) Field A.P., Miles J., Field Z. "Discovering Statistics using R", ed. SAGE
2) Field A. "Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS" ed. SAGE
3) Davies T.M. "The Book of R. A first course in programming and statistics" ed. No Starch Press

Teaching methods

Lectures with the aid of multimedia tools and practical exercises on the computer.

Assessment methods and criteria

The learning verification test will consist of the preparation of a database of clinical data and the production of an appropriate written report to be presented and discussed in the examination context.

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