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Welcome to STAT 509: Clinical Trials

This course is a survey of statistical methods and study design issues related to the testing of medical treatments. There are 19 lessons in this graduate level course that cover the following topics:

• Ethical Considerations
• Clinical Trial Designs
• Bias and Random Error
• Objectives and Endpoints
• Sample Size and Power
• The Study Cohort
• Treatment Allocation and Randomization
• Interim Analyses and Stopping Rules
• Missing Data and Intent-to-Treat
• Estimating Clinical Events
• Prognostic Factors and Regression Models
• Reporting and Publishing
• Factorial Designs
• Cross-Over Designs
• Overviews and Meta-Analysis
• Diagnostic Testing
• Measures of Agreement

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