QB1: Epidemiology, Medical Statistics and Medical Informatics
Course description
The course is based on the subject catalog, see below for topics.
Current information about the course and the exam can be found at the beginning of each semester via ILIAS
Literature
Harms V: Medical statistics. 9th ed. Harms Verlag, Lindhöft, 2019
Walters SJ, Campbell MJ, Machin D: Medical Statistics. A Textbook for the Health Sciences.5th ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2021
Notes
If you have any questions about our teaching offers, please use the contact form to send them to the institute's teaching coordinator.
Lecture notes
| Slide number | PDF file for the respective topic can be found in ILIAS |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction, Descriptive Statistics I |
| 2 | Descriptive Statistics II |
| 3 | Probability |
| 4 | Diagnostic methods |
| 5 | Estimation and Testing I |
| 6 | Estimation and Testing II |
| 7 | Analysis of time-to-event data |
| 8 | Epidemiology |
| 9 | Clinical studies |
| 10 | Medical data science |
| 11 | Medical Informatics |
You can access the access links via ILIAS. The documents will be updated there at or after the respective events.
Exercise documents
| Exercise 1 - Descriptive Statistics I | Worksheet (PDF), xls work file, SPSS exercise data set. |
| Exercise 2 - Descriptive Statistics II | Worksheet (PDF), xlsx work file, SPSS exercise data set |
| Exercise 3 - Probabilities and Distributions | Worksheet (PDF), xlsx-workfile |
| Exercise 4 - Diagnostic procedures | Worksheet (PDF), xls work file |
| Exercise 5 - Estimating and Testing I | Worksheet (PDF) |
| Exercise 6 - Estimating and Testing II | Worksheet (PDF), xlsx-workfile |
Rotation block/seminar
You can access the access links via ILIAS. The documents will be updated there at or after the respective events.
| Intervention study | Lecture slides, script with worksheet, publication |
| Literature research | Lecture slides |
| Observation study | Lecture slides, script with worksheet, publication |
| Introduction to IBM SPSS® Statistics | Lecture slides, worksheet, task sheet (surveys), xls exercise data set, SPSS exercise data set |
Exercise program
Below you can download an exercise program for the MC questions from the Practical Exercises:
Note: Please save the file locally first, then open it with e.g. Microsoft® Excel, LibreOffice or OpenOffice Calc.
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Exam
- Current information about the course and the exam can be found via ILIAS