Aim and Content

Aim:

The course will give an introduction to the statistics program STATA with examples of uses in medical research

Content:

- Data managing/manipulation, documentation

- Simple descriptive statistics

- Simple analysis of continuous variables (t-test, correlation, linear regression)

- Simple analysis of categorical variables with contingency tables (Chi-square ¿ and Fisher¿s exact test)

- Survival analysis (Kaplan-Meier curves, log-rank test)

- Graphics with STATA

- Menus, log-files and do-files in STATA

- Usage of the help function in STATA and online resources

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge

After completion of the course the student should be able to:

- Understand and manage data and perform simple statistical analyses with Stata

Skills

After completion of the course the student should be able to:

- Work with syntax in DO-files in Stata

- Save results in log-files and edit them in a text editor like Word

- Import and export datasets

- Describe and explore datasets

- Create new variables

- Combine datasets

- Perform simple statistical analyses in Stata for continuous and categorical variables (descriptive statistics, t-tests, correlation, linear regression, table-analysis, Kaplan-Meier analysis, log-rank test)

- Create graphical plots with Stata (scatter-plot, line-plot, bar-plot, histogram)

- Edit graphs

Generalized skills

After completion of the course the student should be able to:

- Understand how a typical statistics program works

- Have a basis for starting to use other similar programs

Course offered (semester)

Autumn

Course Unit Level

Ph.d. -level

Access to the Course Unit

Course registration on Studentweb, deadline 1. September.

Visiting student at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, deadline 1. June:www.uib.no/en/mofa/66315/visiting-student-faculty-medicine-and-dentistry-hospitantstudierettwww.uib.no/en/mofa/66315/visiting-student-faculty-medicine-and-dentistry-hospitantstudierett

http://www.uib.no/en/mofa/66315/visiting-student-faculty-medicine-and-dentistry-hospitantstudierett

Pre-requirements

Knowledge in medical statistics, MEDSTAT1A, HELSTA or equivalent

Teaching Methods

Lectures and individual practices in STATA with help. Home work.

3 days.

Total hours: 15 hours + home work

Assessment methods

Written home examination

Grading Scale

Pass/Fail