British Standards Institution Study Day

This website includes the material presented at the British Standards Institution Study Day, July 2013.

How do we make sense of the results?

This session covers the basic ideas of statistical inference: confidence intervals and significance tests. It uses as a practical illustration papers published in one week by the British Medical Journal.

Lecture: How do we make sense of the results? (Adobe PDF file)
Lecture room notes: How do we make sense of the results? (Adobe PDF file)

Types of data and how they can be analysed

This session covers the main types of data which arise in medical research and the statistical methods used to analyse them. It uses as a practical illustration papers published in one week by the British Medical Journal.

Lecture: Types of data and how they can be analysed (Adobe PDF file)
Lecture room notes: Types of data and how they can be analysed (Adobe PDF file)

Sample size for clinical trials

This session covers the estimation of required sample size for randomised trials.

Lecture: Sample size for clinical trials (Adobe PDF file)
Lecture room notes: Sample size for clinical trials (Adobe PDF file)

Detecting a single event

This session covers the problem of estimating adverse event rates when the adverse events are rare and there may be none at all detected in a sample.

Lecture: Detecting a single event (Adobe PDF file)
Lecture room notes: Detecting a single event (Adobe PDF file)
Simple Statistical Software: download for a simple Binomial confidence interval program. (N.B. This program runs under MS-DOS and so requires an emulator such as DOSBox, link provided, to run under Windows 7.)

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