lecture, 1 semester hour

Requirement: degree in natural- or formal sciences
Contents: clinical trials, methodology from study design to quality control; analysis of variance and experimental design, sample size calculations; sequential and adaptive clinical trials; guidelines; statistcal software; statistical approaches to quality of life studies; methodology in diagnostic and observational studies; spatial epidemiology; statistical issues in bioinformatics; meta-analysis
Objective: knowledge of theoretical concepts in statistical methods in medical eesearch
Assessment: multiple choice and open questions

lecture, 1 semester hour

Requirement: degree in natural- of formal sciences
Contents: concepts of theoretical statistics, maximum likelihood, Bayes methodology, multiple testing, methods for categorical data, nonparametric methods, statistical modelling and prediction, longitudinal data and time series, survival analysis, computational statistics
Objective: knowledge of theoretical concepts and methods of analysis in biomedical data analysis
Assessment: multiple choice and open questions

seminar, 2 semester hours

Contents: statistical methods in medical research, advanced statistical procedures and theoretical concepts
Objective: acquisition of relevant skills