Statistics for the terrified

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Amanda Burls’ Statistics for the Terrified slide set – 94 slides, with prompts for audience interaction and reflection.  The slides were originally presented at GIMBE’s EBHC Conference in 2015.

• Format Lessons
• Language/s English
• Target Audience Further education
• Duration >15 mins

Key Concepts addressed

• 2-3b Relative measures of effects can be misleading
• 2-3d Fair comparisons with few people or outcome events can be misleading
• 2-3h Don’t confuse “no evidence” with “no effect”
• 2-1e Peoples' outcomes should be assessed similarly
• 1-2f Consider all of the relevant fair comparisons

Details

Learning objectives

By the end of this session you will:

• Know how measures of effect are reported
• Be able to interpret p-values
• Be able to interpret confidence intervals
• Be able to calculate relative risks (RR, OR)
• Be able to explain the difference between statistical significance and clinical significance
• Like to use blobbograms and be able to interpret them with ease.

Statistics for the terrified PDF