Medical Life Sciences - M - Medical Statistics
General information |
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| Course name | Medical statistics |
| Course type | Lecture + Tutorial |
| Course code | MF-MethoWiss |
| Course coordinator | Krawczak |
| Faculty | Medical Faculty |
| Examination office | Medical Life Sciences/Agricultural Faculty |
| Short summary | This is a lecture from the Master’s programme Medical Life Sciences, which covers the basics of statistics with regard to their application in medicine. |
Information about study level |
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| Study level | Master |
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Information about credit points, evaluation and frequency |
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| ECTS | 2 + 1 |
| Evaluation | Written MC exam, regular attendance tutorial mandatory |
| Frequency | Summer term only 135 minutes/week during lecture period (early April – mid-July) |
Information about teaching language |
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| Teaching language | English |
| Minimum language requirement | B2 |
| Further information on the teaching language | For all Medical Life Sciences courses, the minimum requirement for English language skills is B2 of the European Reference Framework. |
Information about requirements |
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| Requirements |
Medical Life Sciences is a Master’s programme with a two-stage ability assessment with 25 places/year. Interviews will be conducted with interested ERASMUS students. For requirements, see http://www.medlife.uni-kiel.de/medical-life-sciences/required-knowledge and http://www.medlife.uni-kiel.de/medical-life-sciences/students-profile. |
Information about course content, reading list and additional information |
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| Course content | Basics of statistics with regard to their application in medicine: GCP, descriptive statistics, probability theory, estimation theory, epidemiology, diagnostic testing, statistical testing, regression and correlation, statistical models. See http://www.medlife.uni-kiel.de/module/module-descriptions-curriculum/module-descriptions/view |
| Reading list | See modul description. |
| Additional information | Information on Master’s programme Medical Life Sciences: www.medlife.uni-kiel.de |