Course Description

Applied medical statistics; foundation of medical statistics; probabilities, Hypothesis testing; statistical program STATA, and statistical tests in epidemiological studies; Chi-square test, logistic regression model, t-test and Linear regression model

Course Goals

The course goal is to improve statistical and analytical skills of students.

Course Objectives

At the end of this course, the student should be able to

1. To explain the concept and methodology of epidemiology; particularly for tropical infections diseases
2. To demonstrate calculation and translation of epidemiological parameters such as prevalence and incidence, analytical outputs and statistical pamameters; particularly for those having an impact to health system
3. To explain the cause and impact of bias and confounding factors in research, and explain how to avoid and take account of bias and confounding factors
4. To demonstrate calculation and tranlation of risk factors and size of effects in multiple types of research study designs
5. To explain the causal relationship and association between dependent factors and independent factors in multiple types of research study designs
6. To demonstrateand stimulate practice onhow to find additional information and publications
7. To demonstrate and stimulate discussion on how to critically appraiseresearch publications; particularly in the part of study design and statistical analysis

Course-level Learning Outcomes: CLOs

At the end of the course, the students should be able

CLO1: To understand the concept and methodology of researches in tropical infectious diseases
CLO2: To understand, avoid and take account of bias and confounding factors in researches in tropical infectious diseases
CLO3: To calculate and understand risk factors, size of effects, causal relationship in researches in tropical infectious diseases
CLO4: To applyand present researches in tropical infectious diseases with critical explanation on analytical and statistical approaches used