| 1. Introduction to Medical Research |
| 2. Study Designs in Medical Research |
| 3. Summarizing Data & Presenting Data in Tables and Graphs |
| 4. Probability & Related Topics for Making Inferences About Data |
| 5. Research Questions about One Group |
| 6.Research Questions about Two Separate or Independent Groups |
| 7. Research Questions about Means in Three or More Groups |
| 8. Research Questions about Relationships among Variables |
| 9. Analyzing Research Questions about Survival |
| 10. Statistical Methods for Multiple Variables |
| 11. Survey Research |
| 12. Methods of Evidence-Based Medicine & Decision Analysis |
| 13. Reading the Medical Literature |
| 14.Statistics and How They Are Used |
| 15. Populations and Samples |
| 16. Organizing and Displaying Data |
| 17. Summarizing Data. Biostatistics and Clinical Practice, How to Summarize Data, How to Test for Differences Between Groups, The Special Case of Two, The t Test, How to Analyze Rates an Proportions, What Does “Not Significant” Really Mean? Confidence Intervals, How to Test for Trends, Experiments When Each Subject Receives More than One Treatment, Alternatives to Analysis of Variance and the t Test Based on Ranks, How to Analyze Survival Data, What Do the Data Really Show? |
| 18. Probability |
| 19. The Normal Distribution |
| 20. Sampling Distribution of Means |
| 21. One-Sample Significance Testing, Point Estimates, and Confidence Intervals |
| 22. Two-Sample Significance Testing, Point Estimates, and Confidence Intervals |
| 22. Descriptive statistics and graphs, p-values, t-tests and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), (w/paired and repeated measures), non-parametric analyses, chi-square, regression, correlation. |
| 23. The Health Survey and the Research Report |
| 24. Inferences Regarding Proportions |
| 25. The Chi-Square Test |
| 26. Correlation and Linear Regression |
| 27. Nonparametric Methods |
| 28. Vital Statistics and Demographic Methods |