Dear Applicants,
After successful completion of our first course, Basics of Research Cycle and Stata, we are going to start our new course titled Basics of Biostatistics in Research and Stata  from 01 March, 2021.

Day: Sat, Mon, Wed
Time: 06:30 pm to 09:30 pm
Duration: 12 classes

Course Facilitator:
Dr. Md. Manirul Islam
MBBS (K-39), MCPS (Psych), DPH
MMedSc (Australia), PhD (Japan)

Course Content:
Biostatistics and it application in research, introduction, concepts of variables and its classification and application, confounding variables and its role in research, complex or computed variables and its application. How to present research findings: use of texts, tables and graphs, descriptive statistics and its use in research, measures of the middle and its application. Different measures of the middle: arithmetic mean, geometric mean, harmonic mean and their application, quartile and percentile and its role in research and treatment, Use of Stata in creating variables and descriptive statistics. Variability: why we need it, conceptual issues, different measures of variability, mean deviation, standard deviation, variance, coefficient of variation, median, absolute deviation and their use in research. Concept of normality, normal distribution, area under the normal curve, calculation of normal reference range, standard normal variant (Z value) and its use in research and practice. Concept of population and sample, sampling distribution, sampling error, standard error and its application in research. Concept of confidence interval, p-value and their use, proportion and its confidence interval, use of Stata in the calculation. Relation of two or more quantitative variables: correlation (Pearsons, Sphearman rank correlation), covariance and their applicability in research, use of Stata in the calculation. Concept of regression, simple linear regression, simple logistic regression, use of Stata in the calculation. Inferential statistics, Type I and Type II error in research, Hypothesis (Null and alternate hypothesis) and its use in research (t-test and Z-test), use of Stata in the calculation. Chi Square test and other nonparametric tests, use of Stata in the calculation.  One way ANOVA: conceptual issues and its use in research, use of Stata in the calculation.

Eligibility:
At least 16 (10+2+4) years of schooling; preferably from science background.

Course Fee:
4900 BDT(after exclusion of processing charge, if any)