FISICA STATISTICA E INFORMATICA - canale 2
Academic Year 2019/2020 - 1° Year- FISICA MEDICA: Francesco Cappuzzello
- Medical Statistics: Lorenzo Lupo
- Computer Technology: Salvatore Favitta
Scientific field
- FIS/07 - Applied physics
- MED/01 - Medical statistics
- INF/01 - Informatics
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
ENGLISH VERSION
Learning Objectives
- Medical Statistics
The course will provide basic elements to let the student be able to describe individual and population based biological events through syntetic indeces. Moreover, the student should be able to identify and use elementary metodologies of analysis of numerical data
- Computer Technology
The objectives of this module are focused on learning and the conception of the logic that regulates basic computing, elaboration data, structure, classification and typology of networks.
Course Structure
- Medical Statistics
Classroom lecturers using blackboard and tracing papers
- Computer Technology
Lectures
Detailed Course Content
- Medical Statistics
1. Measurers: numerical, ordinal and nominal
2. Descriptive measurers: central tendency and variability
3. Probability and Bayes Theorem
4. Probability distributions: binomial, Poisson and gaussian
5. Hypothesis tests and their meaning
6. Epidemiology: sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, incidence and prevalence rates
- Computer Technology
• Information processing systems;
• Hardware, software and their stratification;
• Operating Systems: fundamental functions and their evolutions;
• Bits, Bytes and numbers connected to them;
• Database;
• Classification, Type and Network Levels;
• E-mail & Protocol;
Textbook Information
- Medical Statistics
J. Fowler, P. Jarvis, M. Chevannes "Statistica per le professioni sanitarie" Ed. EdiSES
Other elementary statistic texbooks
- Computer Technology
Teaching Handouts