The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne

Biostatistical Resources

Improve your knowledge of research methods and statistics

The following links are to selected British Medical Journal (BMJ) Endgames. Endgames are short quizzes intended to help postgraduate exam preparation and continuing professional development. They are a useful way to quickly check your understanding of key statistical concepts.

p Values	Statistical Hypothesis Testing
Errors When Statistical Hypothesis Testing	Statistical Significance And Confidence Intervals
Multiple Significance Tests	Incidence Rate Ratio
Relative Risks	Odds Ratios
Odds Ratios II	Confounding In Case-Control Studies
Confounding In Case-Control Studies II	Confounding In Randomised Controlled Trials
Interpreting An Underpowered Trial	Per Protocol Analysis
Intention To Treat Analyses	Correlation

A few suggested references

Essential Medical Statistics, 2^nd Edition
Betty Kirkwood & Jonathan Sterne, Blackwell, 2003

Study Design and Statistical Analysis: a Practical Guide for Clinicians
Michael Katz, Cambridge University Press, 2006

Medical Statistics at a Glance, 2nd Edition
Aviva Petrie & Caroline Sabin, Blackwell, 2005.

The Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia (BCA)

www.bca.edu.au
The BCA is a consortium of professional biostatisticians from around Australia with representatives from universities, government and the pharmaceutical industry. The BCA has developed a program of postgraduate courses by distance education that aims to provide a rigorous professional training in biostatistics, the discipline that underpins the use of statistical methods in health and medical research.