Basic Statistics for Medical Sciences (IEHC0046)

Module description 

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This module will introduce students to statistical coding in clinical trials, from the trial design stage up to analysis and reporting. The students will...

Statistical Coding in Clinical Trials (ICTM0019)

This module will introduce students to statistical coding in clinical trials, from the trial design stage up to analysis and reporting. The students will develop a coding mindset and learn the principles of coding regardless of the software. In the module, the three main software packages used in clinical trials will be exploited: R, STATA and SAS.    

Students will have the opportunity to put their learning into practice using examples from ICTM clinical trials, preparing them for a career as an applied statistician or as a methodologist in clinical trials.

The aim of this module is to generate your confidence in using a range of statistical software to inform trial design and to prepare, manipulate and analyse clinical trial datasets. You will learn how to produce tables and figures to clearly and appropriately display clinical trials results to facilitate their interpretation.  

At the end of the module, you will be able to:

Understand the fundamentals of the different programming languages
	Design simulations to inform trial design
	Manipulate datasets to produce results
	Clean datasets in appropriate ways in preparation for analysis
	Analyse data to obtain outputs from statistical software
	Produce figures and tables that display the results of analyses clearly and appropriately
This module is compulsory for students on the Statistics for Clinical Trials route of the MSc Clinical Trials.

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Wicklin, Rick. Statistical programming with SAS/IML software. SAS Institute, 2010.