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Biostatistics Certification Training


Program/Course ID:BIOST
Enrollment Period:12 months.
Average Learning Time:~.
Additional Resources:Supplemental materials/activities.
Credit Hours:3 credits.
Method of Training:
Online, asynchronous, self-paced eLearning.
Accessibility:24/7 access to all program materials.
Demonstration:Four (4) free trial courses are available.
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Final Assessment:Multiple choice; unlimited attempts.
Certificate:Encrypted PDF with validation QR barcode.

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Outline:


INTRODUCTION
1. Course Information
2. Interface Tour
3. Course Overview

THE RESEARCH QUESTION
4. Objectives
5. Pre-test
6. The Empirical Cycle
7. Exploratory vs. Confirmatory Studies
8. The Research Hypothesis
9. Target Population vs. Study Population
10. Progress Check

STUDY DESIGN
11. Objectives
12. Pre-test
13. Casual Inference
14. Bias and Confounding
15. Cross-sectional studies
16. Case-control studies
17. Cohort studies
18. Randomized clinical trials
19. Meta-analysis
20. Progress Check

TYPES OF MEASUREMENTS
21. Objectives
22. Pre-test
23. Variation
24. Continuous
25. Categorical
26. Time-to-event
27. Diagnostic Testing
28. Progress Check

STATISTICAL INFERENCE
29. Objectives
30. Pre-test
31. Hypothesis Testing
32. Power and Sample Size
33. Confidence Intervals
34. Multiple Comparisons
35. Progress Check

STATISTICAL ANALYSES I
36. Objectives
37. Pre-test
38. Intention to treat Analysis
39. Predictors and Outcomes

STATISTICAL ANALYSES II
40. Analysis for Continuous Outcome
41. Analysis for Categorical Outcome
42. Analysis for Time-to-event Outcome
43. Progress Check

CONCLUSION
44. Summary

Objectives:


Describe the empirical cycle.
Differentiate between hypothesis-generating and hypothesis-testing studies.
Formulate a research hypothesis.
Identify the research hypothesis in a given study.
Identify the predictor and outcome in a given study.
Define target population, study population, and study sample.
Describe the different types of studies used in medical research.
Recognize the advantages and limitations of the different study designs.
Identify sources of bias in different study designs.
Describe the relative strength of each type of study design in establishing causality.
Describe sources of variation in medical data.
Differentiate between continuous and categorical data.
Define time-to-event data. Define mean and standard deviation.
Identify how data were measured in real studies.
Describe how diagnostic tests are evaluated.
Define and calculate sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value, and positive predictive value.
Describe sampling variation.
Formulate a null hypothesis.
Interpret a p-value.
Define type I and type II errors.
Differentiate between statistical and clinical significance.
Understand statistical power. Interpret a confidence interval.
Describe the problem of multiple comparisons.
Describe the intention-to-treat principle.
Explain last observation carried forward.
Calculate odds ratios and risk ratios.
Interpret odds ratios, risk ratios, and hazard ratios.
Understand the results of simple statistical tests.
Recognize the names of more advanced statistical tests.
Identify the appropriate statistical test for a given study design and type of data.
Understand common pitfalls in medical statistics.

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