Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Statistics in Clinical Trials for the Non-Statistician
This two-week online course from the University of Birmingham provided a foundation in statistics for clinical trials. Participants explored randomised controlled trials, data summarisation, normal distribution, measures of association, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, statistical tests, regression models, non-parametric methods, and sample size calculation. Advanced topics included time-to-event data, handling missing data, non-compliance, subgroup analyses and Bayesian approaches.
3 weeks, 6 hours per week
Sara Brookes
Training and Education Lead for Clinical Trials
University of Birmingham
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Identify the key statistical concepts and methods used within clinical trials and other studies conducted in healthcare research
- Summarise data of different data types
- Identify appropriate measures of treatment effect
- Interpret the findings of clinical trials published in the medical literature, including estimates of effect, confidence intervals and P-values
- Critique published analyses of clinical trials, identifying common problems
- Report statistical methods and results appropriately and transparently
- Contribute more confidently to a clinical trial team
- Explain the crucial role that statistics play in a clinical trial, in its design, conduct, analysis, and reporting
Syllabus
• The importance of statistics in clinical trials
• Measuring and summarising data
• Measures of association/treatment effect
• Sampling variation and confidence intervals
• P values
• Statistical tests and regression models
• Sample size considerations
• Dealing with non-compliance and missing data
• Statistical analysis plans and transparent reporting
• Advanced topics - subgroup analyses & Bayesian methods
Issued on 16th February 2025
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