Clinical Laboratory Statistics

Catalog description

This course offered under on-line modality is designed to provide the graduate student of Clinical Laboratory Sciences with the knowledge, skills, and required attitudes for the application of statistical methods and procedures in the performance of the profession. This will lay a foundation in the description, analysis, and comparison of situation in the Clinical Laboratory daily work. These competences are essential to develop a professional capable of judging the validity and reliability of data and techniques, which support the research in their area of expertise. The them atic content includes: basic principles of statistical analysis, gathering, classification and report of data and sampling methodology. Emphasis is given to descriptive analysis of qualitative and quantitative variables, principles of probability, test of inferential analysis such as: regression and correlation; besides the non-parametrical statistics. The course will be offered by combined methodology of conference sessions, group discussions, problem solving exercises, case studies and analysis of researc h papers.