Clinical and Translational Science Institute
CTSI Informatics Workshop: 'Overview of Studies with Clinical Data and Fundamentals of Statistical Analysis'
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM / November 11, 2024
Join us on Nov. 11 for a workshop hosted by CTSI's BERD and Informatics Core.
Penn State CTSI's Informatics team will present an overview of studies with clinical data. Topics will include:
- Real-world examples from clinical researchers
- EHR data
- OHDSI, TrinetX
- Standard formats
- Single-site versus multi-site studies
- Anatomy of a data science project
- Integration of EHR with other e.g., Imaging data
- Examples of descriptive, exploratory, predictive, and causal studies
Penn State CTSI's BERD team will present fundamentals of statistical analysis including:
- Types of data and types of variables (structured and unstructured data, data wrangling and cleaning, understanding the types of variables and why that matters)
- Preliminary studies and tools (basic tools for describing your data and understanding the associations, and how preliminary studies be used to enhance your research)
- Statistical inference (turning your research question into a statistical question, aspects to consider in choosing your statistical approaches, and understanding the scope of your conclusions)