January 5-7, 2012
The proposed workshop is going to explore the various research problems that require integrated support from medical-engineering experts. The hands on session on biostatistics will provide various methods to test the results and to relate its importance for clinical diagnosis.
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| DESCRIPTION |
| Introduction, descriptive statistics, diagnostic tests and method comparison, theoretical distributions and probability, point estimation and confidence interval, hypothesis tests, parameter and parameter free tests, comparing groups, correlation and regression, relation between several variables (ANOVA, multiple regression, logistic regression, factor analysis), analysis of survival times (Kaplan-Meier curves, cox regression, hazard ratio), experimental design, clinical trials, biological and medical literature, microarray analyses |
| TEXTBOOKS |
| Douglas G. Altman: Practical Statistics for Medical Research, Chapman&Hall/CRC Martin Bland: An Introduction to Medical Statistics, Oxford Medical Publications Harvey Motulsky: Intuitive Biostatistics, Oxford University Press Lothar Sachs, Jürgen Hedderich: Angewandte Statistik (Methodensammlung mit R), Springer John Verzani: Using R for Introductory Statistics, Chapman&Hall/CRC |
