New Medical Statistics for Big Data short course: Advanced statistical methods for electronic health record studies
In this blog Senior Statistician and Epidemiologist Dr Margaret Smith, co-lead on our new accredited short course Medical Statistics for Big Data, describes a recent study on maternal anaemia and congenital heart disease, done using the CPRD GOLD database of electronic health records. Students on our new course will acquire skills enabling them to analyse similar studies using electronic health record databases, and much more besides.
From statistics for clinical trials to medical machine learning, AI and healthcare industry inroads: One MSc in Evidence-Based Healthcare student’s journey
MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care Medical Statistics student Dr Wallen Mphepo shares his experience of the programme, highlighting in particular the Statistics for Clinical Trials module.
Don't ditch p-values: understand them
‘When did we start thinking that a single study was enough to prove a scientific hypothesis? Richard Stevens, Director of the MSc in EBHC Medical Statistics