Statistical Analysis of Medical Studies

2001. 07. 16.


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Statistical Analysis of Medical Studies

Some Biostatistics or What does the „true” mean in a medical study?

Overview

Experimental situation

1. Contingency table

Contingency-table

To analyse new diagnostic methods statistically

Notions

Accuracy

Specificity

Sensitivity

2. Chi-square test (2*2 tables)

?2 test – example

?2 test – cautions, limitations

3. Cohen's Kappa (2*2 tables)

Cohen's Kappa – example

Cohen's Kappa – values

4. Cost matrices

5. ROC-Analysis

ROC analysis – example

Gold standard

Definition:

Many methods of the quantitative analysis

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Quantitative Studies

Normal Data

Normal Brain SPECT

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Where from?

Validation

Validity

Applications, Examples

Heart Study

1. NM Study of Myocardial Perfusion

Study Result

Polar Images of SPECT study

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3.A way to generate normal data

Statistics of the generation method

Author: Marianna Dudasne Nagy

Email: ssip@inf.u-szeged.hu

Home Page: http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~ssip