PhD Courses in Denmark

BIOSTATISTICS lI (2025)

Doctoral School of Engineering and Science at Aalborg University

Welcome to BIOSTATISTICS II

Description: This course on biostatistics focused on the complexity of data collected in biomedical research. Therefore, the course focused on topics like sample size estimation, meta-analysis and multi-factorial methods.

Prerequisites: BIOSTATISTICS I or equivalent

Learning objectives: 

1.The ability to understand the assumptions and perform the following statistical tests:  Multifactorial ANOVA, Repeated measures ANOVA, Multiple and non-linear regression, Survival Analysis  

2. Understand power and sample-size calculation (sample-size considerations), and perform then in the context of your own studies  

3. Understand and perform meta-analyses in systematic reviews.  

4. Write and a statistical analysis plan preferably based your data   

5. Perform the statistical analysis according to the statistical analysis plan and present the results


Teaching methods: 

This course consisted of two parts:   

1) a review of some well-known and widely used parametric and non-parametric methods and discussions of basic designs of experimental studies, 2) a practical part where the focus is on applying the methods to relevant and realistic data sets collected from medical and biomedical research.

Criteria for assessment: The evaluation of the course is based on the statistical analysis plan and the presentation of the results.

Key literature: Selected papers and statistical text book chapters

Organizer: Carsten Dahl Mørch

Lecturers: Carsten Dahl Mørch

ECTS: 3.5

Time: 21, 28 October, 4, 11, 18, 25 November and 2 December 2025

Place: Aalborg University

Zip code: 9220

City: Aalborg

Number of seats: 24

Deadline: 30 September 2025