Recommended prerequisite for participation in the module

Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Describe and understand advanced statistical methods
• Understand how clinical trial design affect statistical choices

Skills

• Explain the principles of decision-making for evidence-based healthcare
• Identify different types of data sources and apply appropriate statistical methods
• Write a statistical analysis plan (SAP) for a clinical trial
• Perform selected statistical tests including multi-factorial analysis
• Prepare a statistical report

Competences

• Develop appropriate designs for clinical research
• Select appropriate statistical analysis
• Critically discuss differences in outcomes using different clinical trial designs (case, cohort, parallel, un-controlled, RCT etc)

Type of instruction

• Teaching varies between lectures, workshops, (group) exercises and individual study

Exam

Exams

Additional information

Please consult the Moodle page for your semester and contact the semester coordinator if you have academic questions, or the study secretary if you have administrative questions.

All other enquiries may be directed to Helene Nørgaard, secretary of the Study Board.