Motivation:
The special ethical and regulatory constraints involved in experimentation on human subjects mean that Clinical Trials have developed their own distinct methodology. Students will, however, recognise many fundamentals from mainstream statistical theory. The course aims to discuss the ethical issues involved and to introduce the specialist methods required.
The course will consist of lectures, practical demonstrations in R and practical exercise sessions. Lecture notes and copies of lecture slides will be made available. For those unfamiliar with R some preliminary material will be provided on installing and getting started with the package. Students wishing to participate in the practical sessions are expected to bring their own laptops (PCs or Mac or Linux) with R installed. A course website will be available which will have some simple example downloadable datasets.
The course will consist of lectures, practical demonstrations in R and practical exercise sessions. Lecture notes and copies of lecture slides will be made available. For those unfamiliar with R some preliminary material will be provided on installing and getting started with the package. Students wishing to participate in the practical sessions are expected to bring their own laptops (PCs or Mac or Linux) with R installed. A course website will be available which will have some simple example downloadable datasets.
Target audience:
This course is aimed to non-statisticians, such as physicians, medical advisors and clinical research scientists and to those biostatisticians that are interested in learning about clinical trials.
Organization:
CEAUL - Center of Statistics and Applications of the University of Lisbon.
The course is supported by FCT projects: PEst-OE/MAT/UI0006/2011 and PTDC/MAT/118335/2010.
The course is supported by FCT projects: PEst-OE/MAT/UI0006/2011 and PTDC/MAT/118335/2010.