Time

Category Type

Speaker

10am to 11.30am

Session I

(60 min)

(15 min) Skill Assessment

(15 min) Feedback Assessment

Category 1

 

Category 3

Category 3

Understanding nature of research data in medical research

Contents: Types of studies (review, descriptive, analytical and clinical trials), data types and cleaning data with boxplot, histogram and side-by-side boxplot.

11.30am to 12.30pm

 

Lunch

12.30pm to 2pm

Session II

(60 min)

(15 min) Skill Assessment

(15 min) Feedback Assessment

Category 1

 

Category 3

Category 3

Testing assumptions in a real medical data:

Contents: Testing normality and homogeneity, understanding nature of data through skewness and kurtosis, computing descriptive statistics, developing profile chart.

2pm to 2.15pm

 

Tea Break

2.15pm to 3.45pm

Session III

(60 min)

 

(15 min) Skill Assessment

(15 min) Feedback Assessment

Category 1

 

 

Category 3

Category 3

Hypothesis testing for two-groups  in medical studies

Contents: Principles of statistical test, role of type I and type II errors in research, when to use one tailed and two tailed tests, concept of p-values, comparing means of two independent and dependent groups. Assumptions used in t test.

3.45 to 4pm

 

Tea Break

4pm to 5pm

Session IV

 (30 min)

(15 min) Skill Assessment

(15 min) Feedback Assessment

Category 1

 

Category 3

Category 3

Hypothesis testing for more than two-groups and post-hoc tests

Contents: Comparing means of more than two groups (ANOVA). Assumptions used in F test. Non-parametric tests.