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