Estatística para a Saúde

Education objectives

The Master in Statistics for Health aims to train people with knowledge and theoretical skills in statistics and with the necessary practical skills to apply correctly the most commonly used statistical methods in health sciences area and in medical and epidemiological research.

This Master gives students the statistical knowledge that enable them to solve adequately health area problems, namely  toselect the most suitable study design to be performed in face of a certain research problem; to use the most appropriate statistical techniques to analyse the different types of variables; to describe the hypotheses and assumptions associated with each statistical technique, identifying and avoiding the most common errors in the application of those techniques; to correctly apply and interpret the results of the statistical analyses, understanding how far they allow to answer/clarify the research questions;  to manage and analyse complex and huge data bases, namely in what concern data cleaning, codification and storage; to critic evaluate the statistics performed in the context health area literature; to apply the principles, the requirements and the norms of the good practices of scientific research.