Instructional Courses

Instructional Courses

All Instructional Courses at the Vienna Congress will be Free of Charge.
It is not necessary to register for these courses.

• Saturday
• Sunday
• Monday
• Tuesday

• 23 September 2018
  14:30-16:30

• IC 59
• 
  Teaching statistics in the overall context of preparing and writing a scientific paper EBO Accredited

  Leader: D. Young | Course Level: Basic

• Faculty:    S. Corson              

  COURSE DESCRIPTION: : In 1938 Sir Ronald Fisher wrote
  
  "To consult the statistician after an experiment is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of."
  
  This short workshop will prepare you for designing, undertaking and reporting the findings of a scientific study. It will encourage you to adopt an evidence based approach on how best to execute your surgical and clinical procedures. It will give you some insight into the statistical methods that can bring understanding and enlightenment about the use of medical treatments and processes.
  
  COURSE OBJECTIVES: : * To explain the various statistical approaches commonly associated with clinical and surgical eye studies
  * To guide you through the analysis of data using a statistical software package
  * To illustrate how to report study results in a scientific paper
  * To enable you to constructively criticise a scientific paper from the perspective of a statistical reviewer
  
  COURSE SCHEDULE:
  
  Introduction: the role of statistics in medical research, types of data, graphics and descriptive statistics, the normal distribution.
  
  Hypothesis Testing: basic concepts, parametric vs. non-parametric, significance level, Type I and Type II errors, randomization, per-protocol vs. intention to treat analysis
  
  Statistical Tests: t-tests, paired t-test, Mann-Whitney, Wilcoxon, chi-squared, Z-test for two proportions illustrated using Minitab (www.minitab.com)
  
  Case Study: Critical appraisal of a research paper from the Archives of Ophthalmology
  
  Time for questions and general discussion
  
  Note: Real data will be presented and analysed using the statistical package Minitab and the use of this software will be illustrated throughout the course. Participants may wish to download a free trial of the software at www.minitab.com and work interactively during the workshop on some of the data which will be made available at the course. SINGLE PRODUCT COURSE: No
  
  FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE: None