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PU5017: APPLIED STATISTICS (2024-2025)

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Course Overview

This course in Applied Statistics focuses on the application of statistical techniques in postgraduate research for health professionals, with a particular emphasis on the correct interpretation of statistical analyses results. The course will NOT focus on the statistical theory underlying the subject. An important component of the course is the use of a statistical package (IBM SPSS), which can be used to implement all the methods taught on this course. 

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term First Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Mintu Nath

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • One of MRes Drug Discovery or MRes Medical Mycology and Fungal Immunology or MSc Clinical Pharmacology or MSc Drug Discovery and Development or MSc Human Nutrition or MSc Global Health and Management or Master Of Science In Health Data Science or MSc Public Health Research or Master Of Public Health or Master Of Science In Molecular Medicine or Master Of Research In Medical Mycology For Clinicians or MSc Immunology or Master Of Science In Immunology And Immunotherapy or MSc Health Psychology or Master Of Science In Biotechnology, Bioinformatics And Bio-Business or Master Of Science In Biotechnology And Bioinformatics or MSc Economics of Health or MSc Bio-Business and Medical Sciences or Master Of Research In Medical Sciences or Master Of Science In Reproductive And Developmental Biology or MSc Genetics or MSc Microbiology or Master Of Science In Industrial Biotechnology

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

  • What are data? Data types and presentation of data.
  • What is chance? Probability and probability distributions. 
  • How does my data relate to the real world? Samples, distributions, statistical inference. 
  • How do I assess the relationship between a numerical and a categorical variable? Student's t-test, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests. 
  • How do I assess the relationship between two categorical variables? Chi-square and McNemar tests. 
  • How do I assess the relationship between two numerical variables? Correlation. 
  • How do I quantify how much one numerical variable change when other variable(s) change as well? Single and multiple linear regression.
  • How do I quantify the strength of association between a binary variable and other variables? Relative risk, odds ratio and logistic regression.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Class Test - Multiple Choice Questions

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 10
Assessment Weeks 11 Feedback Weeks 13

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Feedback

45 minutes. 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.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralApplyApply the concept of statistical inference to health research
ReflectionAnalyseDemonstrate the ability to present and interpret results from statistical analyses appropriately

Class Test - Multiple Choice Questions

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 30
Assessment Weeks 14 Feedback Weeks 16

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Feedback

90 minutes. Group-level feedback will be provided using slides and/or a video presentation or discussed during the open session.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualEvaluateDemonstrate the ability to critically appraise the presentation and interpretation of results in the literature
ProceduralApplyApply suitable statistical methods to answer research questions in a variety of contexts and study designs
ProceduralApplyApply the concept of statistical inference to health research
ReflectionAnalyseDemonstrate the ability to present and interpret results from statistical analyses appropriately

Class Test

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 60
Assessment Weeks 19 Feedback Weeks 25

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Feedback

Descriptive + multiple choice questions. 105 minutes. Students can view the feedback on MyAberdeen once grades are released.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralApplyApply suitable statistical methods to answer research questions in a variety of contexts and study designs
ProceduralApplyApply the concept of statistical inference to health research
ReflectionAnalyseDemonstrate the ability to present and interpret results from statistical analyses appropriately

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Exam

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ReflectionAnalyseDemonstrate the ability to present and interpret results from statistical analyses appropriately
ProceduralApplyApply the concept of statistical inference to health research
ConceptualEvaluateDemonstrate the ability to critically appraise the presentation and interpretation of results in the literature
ProceduralApplyApply suitable statistical methods to answer research questions in a variety of contexts and study designs
ProceduralApplyDevelop a working knowledge of a statistical software package for data management and analysis
 

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