Minwal’s Primer to Medical Statistics

Welcome to Minwal’s Primer to Medical Statistics, a 10-week beginner-friendly program that makes statistics clear, practical, and directly applicable to medical research. Through guided readings, video lessons, quizzes, and hands-on practice with real datasets, you’ll gain the skills to summarize, analyze, and interpret medical data with confidence.

Course content: 

Week 1: Foundation & Introduction to Data

Week 2: Preparing and Describing Data

Week 3: Presenting Data

Week 4: Hypothesis Testing

Week 5: Confidence Intervals and Choosing the Right Statistical Test

Week 6: Analyzing Numerical Data I

Week 7: Analyzing Numerical Data II

Week 8: Analyzing Categorical Data

Week 9: Correlation & Regression Basics

Week 10: Multiple linear regression and logistic regression