Overview of Studies with Clinical Data and Fundamentals of Statistical Analysis

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)