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Activity Number:
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377
- Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences: Innovations, Updates, and Best Practice
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Type:
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Topic-Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 12, 2021 : 12:00 PM to 1:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences
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Abstract #317252
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Title:
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Communicating Statistical Thinking to Students in the Health Sciences
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Author(s):
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Kevin Thorpe*
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Companies:
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University of Toronto
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Keywords:
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Teaching;
Statistical Thinking;
Health Sciences
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Abstract:
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Graduate students in health sciences are expected to be able to critically appraise the medical literature as well as conduct high quality research. A proper and nuanced understanding of statistics is a key ingredient to understanding research and conducting good research. Despite prior statistics courses many students are left with a mechanical step-by-step view of statistics which limits its usefulness to these students. This talk will illustrate the approaches taken in a graduate level biostatistics course to provide students with statistical thinking skills that go beyond the formulaic approach often seen by these students.
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Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.
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