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Statistical principles: variability and confidence intervals

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This resource helps students understand and apply key concepts related to data variability and statistical significance in a biomedical context. It guides students to describe, predict, and calculate standard deviation, standard error, and confidence intervals, and supports them to interpret the significance of these measures in different scenarios.

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Learning outcomes

  • Describe and predict standard deviation, standard error and confidence intervals in various scenarios.
  • Calculate standard deviation, standard error and confidence intervals.
  • Interpret significance of standard error, standard deviation and confidence intervals.
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Skills

Interpreting and Analysing Data

  • How to analyse and compare statistical values

Manipulating and Presenting Data

  • How to calculate standard deviation for various datasets
  • How to calculate standard error for various datasets
  • How to calculate confidence intervals for various datasets

Concepts, Principles and Theories

  • How to describe and predict statistical values

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Degrees

Biological science
Biomedical science

Modules

Bio essentials
Biological chemistry
Mathematics

Topic

Statistics & probability

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