Prof. Cinzia Viroli

• Additional materials and R scripts for topics not fully covered by the main textbook will be provided through the course platform.

Argomenti del programma: The course introduces fundamental and intermediate statistical methods, with applications to biomedical engineering. Topics include: Biomedical data, types of variables and measurement scales Experimental and observational study designs, bias, confounding and causal interpretation Contingency tables, risk measures, odds ratios and Simpson’s paradox Descriptive statistics, data visualization and exploratory data…

Argomenti del programma: Spazi di probabilità e assiomi di Kolmogorov Probabilità condizionata, Legge delle Probabilità Totali e formula di Bayes Eventi indipendenti Variabili aleatorie e funzioni di ripartizione, variabili aleatorie discrete e continue, valore atteso, varianza e covarianza Modelli discreti: Bernoulli, Binomiale, Ipergemometrica, Poisson, Geometrica Modelli continui: Uniforme, Gaussiana, Gamma, Student, Fisher Legge dei…