Program's Aims

 

• Understand and test the normality.

• Identify missing values and dealing with them.

• Learn how to calculate sample size.

 

 

 

*To attend this porgram you have to complete the previous level as a prerequisite.

Program's Details

• Students (seniors mainly): medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, medical science, applied medical science, public health.

• Professionals: medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, medical science, applied medical science, public health.

 

*To attend this program you have to be competeant to use English language, and to be at least seinor student in the medical feild. 

*To attend this porgram you have to complete the previous level as a prerequisite.

Approaches

For program is designed for

• Lecturing.

• Workshops to conduct individual exercises using their computer using the SPSS software.

• Learning by feedback (direct, and indirect).

 

* Self-assessment by following the trainer, and feedback from the trainer.

• 1 Day

• 5 hours

• 1 breaks for 40 minutes 

 

*Notes:

• This program needs the participants to install SPSS software (Trail Version) within their devices before attending the program.

• This program does not provide the SPSS software to the trainees.

Units/ Contents

 

Part I: Normality

• What is normality?

• How to test normality?

• Shapiro–Wilk test

• Dealing with non-normally distributed data.

 

Part II: Missing Values

• What is missing values?

• How to identify missing value?

• MAR vs MCAR.

• Little’s MCAR test

• pairwise deletion

• single mean imputation

• expectation maximization

• multiple imputation.

 

Part III: Sample size calculation

• Different equations for different studies type.