Design, Conduct and Analysis of Clinical Trials

1 Unit · Graduate

This course introduces commonly used designs for clinical trials, methods for randomization, blinding and sample size determination, choice of controls, collaborative/multicenter trial requirements and operational issues, data management and data quality issues, interim analysis methods, critical review of clinical trial results and statistical techniques for analyzing data. Prerequisite BIOSTAT 305-0 and BIOSTAT 402-0 and working knowledge of R. Recommended: BIOSTAT 401-0 and BIOSTAT 402-0 .