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Medical Statistics for Pediatric OSCE Exams

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This guide covers Medical statistics useful for OSCE exam in pediatrics. Statistical OSCE spots are relatively difficult to score amonst rest of the OSCE stations. The slideshow covers following topic

Types of data (Slide 6 )
Histogram (Slide 10)
Box and whisker plot (Slide 12)
Mean, Median and Mode (Slide 15)
Standard deviation and standard error (Slide 22)
CI (Slide 29)
P value (Slide 31)
Errors and types (Slide 33)
Sample size calculations (Slide 36)
Paired T test and chi square test (Slide 41)
Analysis of variance (slide 42)
Mann Whitney U test and Student T test (Slide 47)
Kaplan meier estimate and analysis (Slide 49)
Odd ratio and relative risk (slide 53)
Relative risk and attributable risk (slide 56)
Mortality risk and ratio's (slide 63)
Incidence and prevalence (slide 69)
Statistical significance (slide 77)
Correlation (slide 88)
Regression (slide 91)
Survival analysis (slide 95)
Cox regression model (slide 99)
ROC curve (slide 110)
Forest plot (slide 114)
PICOT (slide 120)

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Dr Ranjith P | DNB Pediatrics resident, ACME Pariyarum, Kerala

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