Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the graduate student will:
1. know and applυ basic statistical methods
2. be able to perform descriptive statistical measures to summarize data
3. compare results between samples using representative samples
4. understand the uncertainty involved in sample parameter estimation
5. be able to administer quantitative statistical measures to summarize data
6. interpret and evaluate the statistical findings
Course Content (Syllabus)
1. Review of statistical methods
2. Statistical Software Review
3. Basic principles of clinical research
4. Basic principles of scientific writing
5. Research on adolescents
6. Defining the disease and measuring an effect (Prevalence, Incidence, Measures of Dispersion)
7. Diagnosis and prognosis in adolescent medicine
8. Therapeutic means in adolescent medicine
9. Synthesis of evidence in adolescent medicine
10. Basic principles of preventive adolescent medicine
11. Evaluation of studies and evaluation tools
12. Evaluation of cohort studies
13. Evaluation of randomized clinical trials
14. Evaluation of meta-analyses
15. Valuation of guidelines
Keywords
statistics, adolescent, adolescence, epistemology, measures of dispersion, evaluation of studies