Basic Biostatistics: Third-cycle courses: The Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences: Linköping University

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Basic Biostatistics, 4 credits (8FO0112)

Grundläggande biostatistik, 4 hp

Entries for Basic Biostatistics/Anmälan

Time: Weeks 3-5 2024

Course language: spring course is taught in Swedish

Next available course in English will be autumn 2024.

Number of participants: 30

The course deals with the most common statistical methods in biostatistics. The main focus of the course is that the students should be able to know when to use a certain test and correctly interpret the results from a statistical program. Some aspects of study design in experimental, clinical and observational studies are also discussed as well as aspects of validity, errors and power analysis.

Admission requirements

General requirements for studies on third-cycle education courses

Specific requirements:
Basic knowledge of statistical terms and concepts, and of descriptive statistics is required. To make sure that you have basic knowledge, perform the assessment provided below. If you have difficulties answering the questions we recommend that you prepare by reading some of the suggested literature or acquire knowledge using the link provided.

PhD students are admitted according to the following priority order:

PhD students registered at the Faculty of Health Sciences
PhD students registered at other faculties within Linköping University
PhD students registered at other universities

Participation in the course of other students than above is only possible if there are fewer applicants from the above groups than students to be admitted.

Course syllabus

Kursplan

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