Quantitative Methods to Support Healthcare Decisions

The learning objectives of the course aim to develop the knowledge, the comprehension, and the use of statistical methods for the data analysis. The students will learn how statistics could answer to research questions in healthcare decision.
In the course, the students will study the analysis of single events and the evaluation of possible relations across events or variables, with a focus on the inferential problems.
It will be emphasized the importance of formulate interpretative hypothesis as a starting point of each quantitative data analysis. The different theoretical topics will be studied also from an operational point of view by developing practical examples and real data through statistical software.

At the end of the course, the student will be able to know the main statistical methods and the advanced techniques for data analysis. The student will be able to develop an analysis on real data, from the choice of the data and of the most appropriate statistical methods to the comprehension and interpretation of the results.