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Medical Statistics

Based in the Section of Population Health, the Medical Statistics Team provides teaching, support and statistical consultancy to colleagues in the College of Life Sciences and Medicine and NHS Grampian. The Medical Statistics Team is under the leadership of Professor Amanda Lee.

• Research
• Student Clinics
• PhD Students
• Teaching
• SPSS and Statistics Courses

Research
The methodological expertise of the Team covers a range of study designs (case-control, cohort, observational, RCTs) and techniques which include:

• Longitudinal data analysis
• Multilevel/hierarchial modelling
• Systematic reviews and IPD meta-analyses
• Differential item functioning
• Advanced survival analysis methods including accelerated failure time models, non-proportional hazards models and competing risk models
• Bayesian statistical methods including recall bias
• Mixed models
• Missing values and imputation
• Partial least squares, reduced regression

Student Clinics
The Medical Statistics Team offer statistical advice clinics for students in the College of Life Sciences & Medicine. Students should report to room 1.026 (Polwarth Building) where a statistician will be on hand to discuss their query. Clinics are held daily between 1-2pm and are run on a first come first served basis.

PhD Students
Note that the daily student clinics are not open to PhD students. PhD students are advised to book an appointment through the standard Consultancy Service. To prevent misunderstanding in advice requested or provided, one or more supervisors are expected to accompany their PhD student to the appointment - there are no exceptions to this.

  
Teaching
Members of the Team co-ordinate and/or contribute teaching for the following groups:

Undergraduates:  BSc Health Sciences 2^nd year (HE2501); BSc Health Sciences 3^rd year (HE3019); BSc Medical Sciences (ME38M3/4) and 3M Critical Appraisal.

Postgraduates: MSc Applied Statistics (PU5005); Using Evidence in Practice (NU5501); Research Methods for Health Care Professionals (NU5507) and Basic Statistics (3 day generic statistics course for all three Graduate Schools).

University/NHS staff: GP Registrars (for NHS Education); Foundation Year Academics; SHO Research Methods; Faculty of Public Health Medicine (Royal College of Physicians); Systematic Review Course; UHI Postgraduate Course; Introduction to SPSS; Introductory Medical Statistics and Intermediate Medical Statistics (see below).

The coordinator of all teaching involving the Medical Statistics Team is Dr Gordon Prescott (gordon.prescott@abdn.ac.uk)

SPSS and Statistics Courses
The Medical Statistics Team run a series of annual courses which are open to both University and non-University staff. 

• Introduction to SPSS	1st March 2011
• Introductory Medical Statistics	8th March 2011
• Intermediate Medical Statistics	29th and 30th March 2011

  
For details of the next courses, please phone or email Ann Simpson on 01224 437974 (internal ext 7974) or a.simpson@abdn.ac.uk

Medical Statistics Contacts

Marie Walker-Greenwood
Population Health
1st Fl, Polwarth Building
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZD

Tel +44 (0) 1224 437266
Tel +44 (0) 1224 437267

Fax: +44 (0)1224 437857
E-mail: marie.walker-greenwood@abdn.ac.uk