The primary objective of the course is to introduce to the medical student those fundamental notions of the most important research methodologies and the main techniques of Medical Statistics, in order to better understand and interpret the biomedical phenomena. In addition, the student will be provided with the ability to detect the patient's primary and clinical data, to analyze them statistically and to evaluate and critically discuss their results. In addition to this, we will try to prepare students to be able to describe, interpret and communicate in an appropriate manner the information collected on samples of patients, subjects (or other statistical units) and, finally, to evaluate reliability, appropriateness, etc. diagnostic and screening tools.
EXPECTED LEARNING RESULTS
Knowledge and ability to understandAt the end of the course the student must know:
• organize collected data;
• construct and interpret graphs;
• describe the differences between the different measurement scales;
• calculate the most common central trend indices and data variability;
• analyze frequency distribution curves;
• use some inferential statistics techniques.

Autonomy of judgmentAt the end of the course the student must know:
• have a critical reading of articles related to topics related to the CdS with significant contents of biostatistics.

Communication skillsAt the end of the course the student must know:
• use the technical language of medical statistics