The statistics part of the course assumes that you have (had, at least) some familiarity with basic statistical concepts:
- Descriptive statistics (means, standard deviations, standard errors)
- Hypothesis testing and p-values (specifically t-test)
- Confidence intervals
- Simple linear regression
If you have passed the exam for the course Biostatistics (1BI009) in T4 of the Biomedicine program, you should be good to go. But even if you have not, these subjects will be covered in almost any introductory statistics course or module.
In the same manner, if you want to do extra reading on the side to refresh your memory, almost any text will do, but you could do much worse than one of the following ones:
- M. Bland: An introduction to medical statistics, 3rd ed. Oxford University Press, 2000.
- D. Altman: Practical statistics for medical research, 2nd ed. Chapman & Hall, 1999.
There is also a couple of useful statistical texts avaiable from KI's collection of electronic texts, e.g. look for "Statistics at square one" at
ebrary.
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