First Day:
     Session I:
          Introduction
          Basic concepts and definition
          Presentation of data, tables and charts
          Use of statistical packages
          Normal distribution curve
          Summarizing data, measures of central tendency
     Session II:
          Summarizing data, measures of dispersion
          Confidence intervals, use of statistical tables
          Wrapping up

 

Second Day:
     Session III:
          Basics of hypothesis testing
          Comparison of means and analysis of variance
          Comparison of percentages
          Introduction to regression analysis
          Multivariate analysis
     Session IV:
          Basic concepts of epidemiology
          Mortality & morbidity rates, age adjustment
          Prospective & retrospective studies
          Clinical trials, introduction to sample size determination