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Quantitative skills

Averages, spread and precision (Biomed)

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This resource covers averages, measures of spread, precision and accuracy, and applies calculations in real-world scenarios.

Learning outcomes

  • Calculate different measures of average and spread for provided datasets.
  • Calculate precision (% CV) and accuracy (% difference) of biomedical experimental data.
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Skills

Manipulating and Presenting Data

  • How to identify and calculate the outlying value in a patient dataset
  • How to determine to what extent a patient's blood glucose level compares to the standard deviation of a reference group

Concepts, Principles and Theories

  • How to differentiate between mean and median in datasets with and without outliers
  • How to identify whether a dataset demonstrates high or low accuracy and precision

Interpreting and Analysing Data

  • How to calculate mean, median and mode for patient blood glucose datasets
  • How to calculate the standard deviation for a patient dataset
  • How to calculate data ranges in specific standard deviations from the mean of the dataset

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Degrees

Biomedical science
Biological science
Pharmacological science

Modules

Bio essentials

Topic

Quantitative skills

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