Last modified: 25 Sep 2019 09:58
This course in Applied Statistics intends to focus on the application of statistical techniques in postgraduate research for health professionals, with a particular emphasis on the correct interpretation of statistical analyses. The course will NOT concentrate on the statistical theory underlying the subject. An important component of the course is the use of a statistical package. The statistical package used on this course will be IBM SPSS Statistics 25 which can be used to implement all of the methods taught on this course.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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– Graphs, summarising data and data checking
– Probability
– Introduction to statistical inference and hypothesis testing
– Hypothesis testing for continuous data
– Analysis of variance (ANOVA)
– Non-parametric tests
– Hypothesis tests for categorical data
– Relative risk and odds ratio
– Correlation and measures of agreement
– Simple linear regression
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 35 | Feedback Weeks | 37 | |
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The assessment is marked with a rubric covering different themes within the assessment, each theme is marked and the combined grade obtained. The student will get one or two sentences of feedback from the marker per theme. In addition the model answer will be posted on MyAberdeen. |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 10 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 35 | Feedback Weeks | 36 | |
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Each question has feedback on wrong answers submitted and how to arrive at correct answer. feedback received once grades released, a few days after the due date. |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 10 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 32 | Feedback Weeks | 33 | |
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Each question has feedback on wrong answers submitted and how to arrive at correct answer. feedback recieved once grades released, a few days after the due date. |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 10 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 28 | Feedback Weeks | 29 | |
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Each question is set up to provide feedback on incorrect answers to the student. This feedback is received once the test grades are released. |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 30 | Feedback Weeks | 32 | |
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Each students submission is annoted through MyAberdeen to indicate what was right/wrong and how to improve. The solution is provided as a PDF file. |
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There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Apply | Apply the concept of statistical inference to health reserach |
| Procedural | Apply | Apply suitable statistical methods to answer research questions in a variety of contexts and study designs |
| Reflection | Analyse | Demonstrate the ability to present and interpret results from statistical analyses appropriately |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Demonstrate the ability to critically appraise the use of commonly encountered statistical methods within the health related literature. |
| Procedural | Apply | Develop a working knowledge of statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) software for data management and analysis |
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