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Welcome to the course notes for STAT 509: Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials. These notes are designed and developed by Penn State's Department of Statistics and offered as open educational resources. These notes are free to use under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 4.0.
This course is part of the Online Master of Applied Statistics program offered by Penn State's World Campus.
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Course Overview
This course is a survey of statistical methods and study design issues related to the testing of medical treatments. There are 19 lessons in this graduate level course that cover the following topics:
- Ethical Considerations
- Clinical Trial Designs
- Bias and Random Error
- Objectives and Endpoints
- Sample Size and Power
- The Study Cohort
- Treatment Allocation and Randomization
- Interim Analyses and Stopping Rules
- Missing Data and Intent-to-Treat
- Estimating Clinical Events
- Prognostic Factors and Regression Models
- Reporting and Publishing
- Factorial Designs
- Cross-Over Designs
- Overviews and Meta-Analysis
- Diagnostic Testing
- Measures of Agreement