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Abstract #304452

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Activity Number:	272
Type:	Contributed
Date/Time:	Tuesday, August 9, 2005 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor:	Section on Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences
Abstract - #304452
Title:	Experience of Using Stata Software in Teaching an Introductory Biostatistics Course for MSc Nutrition Students from 2002--2004
Author(s):	Novie Younger*+ and Ian Hambleton and Kadene Clarke and Christine Powell
Companies:	University of the West Indies and NIMR/AMREF/LSHTM Collaborative Projects and University of the West Indies and University of the West Indies
Address:	Tropical Medicine Research Institute, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
Keywords:	teaching biostatistics ; statistical software ; Stata ; Nutrition
Abstract:	From 2002--2004, it was the responsibility of the Statistics Group within the Tropical Medicine Research Institute to teach biostatistics to students of the Master's of Science in Nutrition program. The course comprised didactic sessions aimed at introducing students to basic data analysis tools and computing tutorials designed to equip students to use Stata to make use of the tools to which they were introduced during the teaching sessions. This biostatistics course is part of a module titled "Essentials of the Scientific Method" that also has an epidemiology component. "Essentials of the Scientific Method" is worth six credits, three of which are offered for the biostatistics component. The challenges and benefits associated with our efforts at teaching statistical thinking and considerations that influenced the choice of software will be shared.

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