Research methods and statistics

Anatomy  of a Forest plot

Stages in designing a clinical trial.

Box and whisker plot

Different types of data

Central tendency and degree of dispersion

Box and whisker plot

Advantages and disadvantages of randomised control trial study design

Levels of evidence; also the advantages and disadvantages of meta-analysis. 

The Receiver Operator Curve (ROC) 

Anatomy of the forest plot

Statistical power, types of error, point estimate and confidence interval

Definitions: sensitivity, specificity, PPV and NPV

Levels of evidence; also the advantages and disadvantages of meta-analysis. 

Sample size calculation; also parametric and nonparametric tests.

Odds ratio: what does it mean?

Advantages and disadvantages of randomised control trial study design