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1352 706 190Fax +44 (0) 1352 756 260Booklet 7 - Introduction to biostatistics concepts
This booklet is designed for people working in the pharmaceutical
industry who are not statisticians, but who need an understanding of
biostatistics in order to evaluate evidence and/or talk to their
customers effectively. We hope that you find this brief introduction
to biostatistics both informative and useful.
Some of the Topics Discussed
Basic Biostatistics
- Types of data: sample versus population
- Summarizing data using graphical methods
- Summarizing data using numerical methods
- Symmetric versus skewed data
- Percentiles
- Box-and-whisker plots
- Diagnostic tests
- Probability theory and probability distributions
Intermediate Biostatistics
- Descriptive statistics
- Testing the hypothesis
- Statistical errors in hypothesis testing
- Statistical power
- Statistical significance
- Confidence intervals
- Margin of error
- Parametric tests
- Non-parametric tests
- Chi-square (χ2) test
Advanced Biostatistics
- Correlation and linear regression
- Logistic regression
- Kaplan Meier estimates
- Cox regression
- Repeated measures analysis of variance
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