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Propaedeutic Sciences - mod. STATISTICS
LUIGI FERRANTE

Seat Medicina e Chirurgia
A.A. 2013-2014
Credits 2
Hours 20
Period 1^ semestre
Language ENG
U-gov code MT09-11-11 MT432

Program

Descriptive statistics.  Summary of data and their representation by means of tables and frequency distributions. Graphical representation of data.

Elements of probability theory. Meaning of event and probability. Fundamental principles of probability theory. The Bayes’ theorem and its applications in biomedical field. Random variables and their trasformations. The binomial variable. The role of the normal distribution in statistics.

Inferential statistics. Population, sample and sampling distributions. Estimation of population parameters: point and interval estimations. Properties of estimators. Confidence interval for the mean of a population. Confidence interval for the variance of a population. Confidence interval for the difference between two means. Confidence interval for the difference between proportions.

All topics were used to analyze the database, even with the aid of the statistical program R.

Recommended reading

Sitology on data processing environment R. The official website of R where to find manuals and other information is "The R Project for Statistical Computing" whose internet address is: http://www.r-project.org/. To download freely from the Internet the statistical program R: http://cran.stat.unipd.it/. More information can be retrieved using the search engine GOOGLE using the keywords: r statistics.

Martin Bland, Statistica Medica, Ed. Apogeo.

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