Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Health Sciences |
Máster Universitario en Asistencia e Investigación Sanitaria (a distancia) |
Subjects |
Análise de Supervivencia e Probas Diagnósticas |
Contents |
Identifying Data | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Análise de Supervivencia e Probas Diagnósticas | Code | 653862333d | |||||||||||
Study programme |
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Official Master's Degree | 2nd four-month period |
First | Optional | 3 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
BLOCK 1. Survival Analysis | 1.1. Introduction: types of censoring, main functions of interest. 1.2. Estimation of the survival curve: Kaplan-Meier estimator, important parametric models. 1.3. Comparison of survival curves 1.4. The proportional hazards model: Cox regression model. 1.5. The competing risk model. |
BLOCK 2. Diagnostic test |
2.1. Validity and reliability of a diagnostic test: sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, likelihood ratios. 2.2. Clinical implementation of Bayes's Theorem. 2.3. ROC curves and the area under the ROC curve. |
PRACTICAL CONTENT | 1. Choice of the appropriate technique for data analysis, application of methods with statistical software, and interpretation of results. 2. Application of epidemiological software for the analysis of the validity and reliability of diagnostic tests. 3. Interpretation of results in the evaluation of diagnostic tests |
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