Statistical Methods for Clinical Research

Course information

Class in biostatistics master program, Fall semester 2011

Instructors: Kaspar Rufibach and Eva Furrer, University of Zurich, Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, Division of Biostatistics

Time and venue

• Class: Friday, 8:00 - 9:45
• Exercises: Friday, 10:15 - 11:00

Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine, Division of Biostatistics, Hirschengraben 84, Room F05.

Program
The course discusses statistical methods that are used in clinical research. The detailed agenda can be downloaded from below. Hands-on industry experience will enter the class through two invited talks by guests from Novartis. Each session will consist of a 2-hour class and a 1-hour exercise lab. Exercises will be of mixed type: theoretical questions to be solved with paper and pencil will be complemented with tasks that need programming in R.

A shorter class on some of the topics was given by Marcel Wolbers in 2007 and 2008. Some of the material used is based on Marcel's material.

Below you find the collection of all material used throughout the course. Use "save as" if clicking on the links below does not work.

Exam
Will take place on January 20, 2012, 9:00 - 11:00 in Y27H25 . Duration is two hours, no support material is allowed except a non-programmable pocket calculator.

General documents

Datasets

Lecture notes, reading material, exercise sets and R code

Download page (closed 08/02/2012, contact Eva Furrer if you need a document)