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Course Information
Meet the Teaching Team -
Course Dataset 1
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Course Dataset 2
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MODULE A1: INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS USING R, STATA, AND SPSSA1.1 What is Statistics?
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A1.2.1a Introduction to Stata
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A1.2.2b: Introduction to R
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A1.2.2c: Introduction to SPSS
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A1.3: Descriptive Statistics
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A1.4: Estimates and Confidence Intervals
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A1.5: Hypothesis Testing
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A1.6: Transforming Variables
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End of Module A11 Quiz
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MODULE A2: POWER & SAMPLE SIZE CALCULATIONSA2.1 Key Concepts
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A2.2 Power calculations for a difference in means
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A2.3 Power Calculations for a difference in proportions
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A2.4 Sample Size Calculation for RCTs
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A2.5 Sample size calculations for cross-sectional studies (or surveys)
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A2.6 Sample size calculations for case-control studies
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End of Module A21 Quiz
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MODULE B1: LINEAR REGRESSIONB1.1 Correlation and Scatterplots
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B1.2 Differences Between Means (ANOVA 1)
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B1.3 Univariable Linear Regression
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B1.4 Multivariable Linear Regression
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B1.5 Model Selection and F-Tests
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B1.6 Regression Diagnostics
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End of Module B11 Quiz
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MODULE B2: MULTIPLE COMPARISONS & REPEATED MEASURESB2.1 ANOVA Revisited – Post-Hoc Testing
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B2.2 Correcting For Multiple Comparisons
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B2.3 Two-way ANOVA
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B2.4 Repeated Measures and the Paired T-Test
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B2.5 Repeated Measures ANOVA
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End of Module B21 Quiz
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MODULE B3: NON-PARAMETRIC MEASURESB3.1 The Parametric Assumptions
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B3.2 Mann-Whitney U Test
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B3.3 Kruskal-Wallis Test
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B3.4 Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test
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B3.5 Friedman Test
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B3.6 Spearman’s Rank Order Correlation
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End of Module B31 Quiz
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MODULE C1: BINARY OUTCOME DATA & LOGISTIC REGRESSIONC1.1 Introduction to Prevalence, Risk, Odds and Rates
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C1.2 The Chi-Square Test and the Test For Trend
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C1.3 Univariable Logistic Regression
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C1.4 Multivariable Logistic Regression
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End of Module C11 Quiz
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MODULE C2: SURVIVAL DATAC2.1 Introduction to Survival Data
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C2.2 Kaplan-Meier Survival Function & the Log Rank Test
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C2.3 Cox Proportional Hazards Regression
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C2.4 Poisson Regression
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End of Module C21 Quiz
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A Note about the Fossa Certificate
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Jennifer CarterFoSSA Course Co-Director and lecturer for Module A1Jennifer is an Associate Course Director for the MSc Global Health Science & Epidemiology in Oxford Population Health. She also directs short courses in epidemiology and statistics. Her research examines the measurement and influence of adiposity, dietary intake and other vascular risk factors with the risk of cardiovascular disease in large, prospective studies around the globe. |
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Tracy ByeFoSSA Course Co-Director and lecturer for Modules B2 and B3Tracy is a Lecturer in Animal Science at the Royal Agricultural University. Previously she was the Deputy Director of Education in the Department of Oncology at the University of Oxford. She has several years experience of teaching research methods and statistics to students in the life sciences. |
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Neil WrightLecturer for Module A1Neil Wright is a medical statistician working on the China Kadoorie Biobank in Oxford Population Health. His main research interest is the effective application of established and novel methods in epidemiology and related research. |
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Imen HammamiLecturer for Module B1Imen is a Senior Statistician in Oxford Population Health. |
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Steph RossLecturer for Module C1Stephanie Ross is a Senior Teaching and Research Fellow in Oxford Population Health. Stephanie’s current research focuses on major risk factors for adult mortality in low- and middle- income countries. |
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Sofia MassaLecturer for Module C1Sofia is the Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit Lead Statistician at NDORMS. She is interested in developing sound and rigorous statistical models for estimating parameters of interest from clinical trials data and health research data. |
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Yasmina Al GhadbanLecturer for Module A2Yasmina is a first year DPhil student from Beirut, Lebanon, under the supervision of Dr Jane Hirst. Her research interests broadly involve using health data and predictive modeling for disease prevention and early detection, particularly in diseases that impact women’s, reproductive, sexual and maternal health. For her DPhil, she is hoping to combine her engineering background with her passion for improving reproductive health to develop predictive models of adverse outcomes of gestational diabetes using electronic health records. |
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Mohammad Umer Sharif ShohanLecturer for Module A1Mohammad is a 2nd year DPhil student at Nuffield Department of Medicine. He is currently working on developing a machine learning model to understand cellular interaction from single cell transcriptomics data. His research interest lies on machine learning, immunology, big data, mathematical modeling etc. In his free time, he enjoys reading, traveling and exploring new places and ideas |
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Callum O’NeillLecturer for Module A1Callum is a first year DPhil student on the Genomic Medicine and Statistics program. He has a particular focus on large datasets and an interest in researching the genetic basis of both monogenic and polygenic disease. |
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Tuan-Anh TranLecturer for Module A2Tuan-Anh is a DPhil student at the Nuffield Department of Medicine. His research focuses on applying machine learning approaches to solve problems in biomedical and chemical science, especially in antimicrobial resistance. |
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