Online Courses Handbook 2003

12112 (v.2) Clinical Research Methods 584

Area:	School of Public Health
Contact Hours:	4.0
Credits:	25.0
Individual Study:	2 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	13152 (v.2) Health Research Methods 681 or any previous version OR 11547 (v.2) Epidemiology 781 or any previous version OR 13554 (v.2) Epidemiology and Biostatistics 782 or any previous version
Epidemiology, Clinical trials, randomised controlled trials, quasi-experimental designs for clinical research, single case experimantal designs, prospective and retrospective cohort studies, case-control studies, cross-sectional studies, ecological study designs, inference and interpretation. Biostatistics, Regression analysis, analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, two-way analysis of variance, non-parametric methods. Mainframe computer; introduction to SPSS, ANOVA, regression analysis, non-parametric tests.