Meet the Instructors
       CYNTHIA GARVAN, MA, PHD              TERRIE VASILOPOULOS, PHD
                                       Research Assistant Professor in Anesthesiology 
    Research Professor in Anesthesiology  and Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
   Course Objectives
    Review fundamentals of study design and research 
   methodology
    Understand how to choose best statistical test for 
   your research question
    Practice basic statistical analysis use JMP Pro 
   Software
      Course Topics
      
       Asking a Good Research Question
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       Life Cycle of Research and the Scientific Method
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       Study Design
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       Data types and Database Construction
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       Descriptive Statistics
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       Data Visualization
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       Population and Sample, Probability, Statistical Inference
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      How to Chose Correct Statistical Method and Run Some Analyses
        T-tests, ANOVA, Non-Parametric
        Chi-square, odds ratio, relative risk
        Regression and Correlation
        Survival Analysis
        Test Diagnostics (e.g. sensitivity, specificity, etc.)
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       Comparing Statistical Modeling and Machine Learning 
   Population and 
   Sample, 
   Probability, 
   Statistical Inference
    4/7/2021
   Why is this topic 
   important?
   Not being able to study an entire population is why we 
  need inferential statistics!
   The GOAL of statistical inference is to understand 
  something about populations using sample data.
  For example: we may wish to know a population proportion 
  (symbol = p) or a population mean (symbol = m). Often the 
  goal of clinical trials is to compare groups on population 
  proportion (e.g., post operative delirium) or population 
  mean (e.g., length of stay after surgery).