Research and Statistics II

Code:

1021

Acronym:

IEII

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Educational Sciences

Instance: 2017/2018 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	3.º Ciclo Doutoramentos
Course/CS Responsible:	Dental Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
DMDB	6	Dental Medicine PhD - Study Plan 2009/2010	1	-	2	18	54

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

With the implementation of this course is intended to deep the skills acquired in the previous curricular unit in the first semester, particularly in causation, considering the existence of multifactor etiological relationships.

Learning outcomes and competences

It is intended the students might be able for detecting confounding phenomena, coexistence and common cause effect. Finally, it is intended that the students distinguish and apply consistently, the concepts of statistical significance and clinical significance.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Advanced Statistics Module

One­way Anova; Two­Way ANOVA; Multivariate ANOVA. Simple and multiple linear regression. Logistic Regression. Association and causality ­ Confounders.

Mandatory literature

Daniel Wayne W.; Biostatistics. ISBN: 978-0471-45654-4
Maroco, J; Análise estatística com a utilização do SPSS, Sílabo. ISBN: 972-618-331-6
Tabachnick, Barbara G. and L. S. Fidell, ; Using multivariate statistics, Allyn and Bacon. ISBN: 0-321-05677-9
Marques de Sá, J. P; Applied statistics using SPSS, Statistica, MatLab and R, Springer. ISBN: 978-3-540-71971-7

Complementary Bibliography

Oliveira, A. G; Bioestatística, Epidemiologia e Investigação – Teoria e aplicações, Lidel, 2009. ISBN: 978­972­757­558­9

Teaching methods and learning activities

Presentation of practical classes with resolution of statistical problems with the support of SPSS, and analysis of published articles.

Type of evaluation: Evaluation with final exam.

 

Software

SPSS

keywords

Physical sciences > Mathematics > Statistics > Medical statistics

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	54,00
Frequência das aulas	18,00
Total:	72,00

Eligibility for exams

Terms of frequency: Minimal presence in 75% of classes taught.

Calculation formula of final grade

Evaluation Formula: Final classification = assessement exam

Classification improvement

Theoretical-practical written test in second chance.