Medical Statistics

Medical statistics is the contribution of mathematics to the interpretation of medical data. It gives answers to questions of great importance to our lives.

“How accurate is a diagnostic test?”, “How effective is a particular drug?”, “Is exercise good for mental health?”, “Which cholesterol levels are considered healthy?” The current pandemic crisis is another example of how medical statistics dictate the course of action for maximum benefit.

The course content will cover the basics of probabilities and descriptive statistics which are a requirement in order to carry on with more advanced mathematical instruments used by contemporary medical researchers, such as hypothesis testing, statistical power, error types, positive predictive value and regression.

By the end of this course, students will be able to extract information from data by performing statistical analyses, identify biases and errors, understand medical research papers and identify the effect of distributions in everyday life.