Clinical Statistics for Nonstatisticians

Attend this virtual training course to learn about confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, trial designs, and methods for establishing noninferiority and equivalence.

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Session 2: Basic Statistical Concepts

Session Chair(s)

Rafe Donahue, PhD

Senior Director, Biometrics

Sierra Oncology, United States

Introduce fundamental statistical concepts such as sampling and variability. In addition, we will introduce some common statistics used to describe data.

StatisticalConcepts

Population
Sample
Uncertainty
Examples of distributions
Sampling variability
Stochastic vs. deterministic
Bias

Basic Statistics

Types of data
Summary measures
Estimation
Confidence interval
Examples