2019/2020

2019/2020

DM270

ING-INF/05 (DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS)

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, NEUROSCIENCE, EXPERIMENTAL AND FORENSIC MEDICINE

ENVIRONMENT AND WORKPLACE PREVENTION TECHNIQUES

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

2nd semester (02/03/2020 - 12/06/2020)

2

16 lesson hours

Italian

WRITTEN TEST

LARIZZA CRISTIANA (titolare) - 2 ECTS

The course is part of the students' basic training, together with Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, preparatory to the lessons and activities in the Prevention field. To better follow the course, the student must have attended the courses and acquired the knowledge in these two basic disciplines.

The Basic Computer Science aims to provide students with the necessary skills to use the Excel application as a useful support to the profession of the Environment and Workplace Prevention Techniques

Introduction to Excel use.
Descriptive statistics:
- mean, median, percentiles, mode, standard deviation, range using both
Excel as ‘electronic sheet’ and
Excel functions
- pivot tables for one variable or crossing two variables
- graphics
- correlation
Inferential statistics:
- Parametric unpaired and paired t-test.
- Test on homogeneity of variance.
- Oneway analysis of variance.
- Chi-squared test.
- Test on correlation
- Linear regression model.

The plan of the course is based on practical section using personal computer.

Simona Villani, Paola Borrelli – EXCEL & Statistica Medica – Quaderni di Epidemiologia – Medea 2013.

The examination will be written with a problem solving approach. The student will have to face some research questions, attesting to have acquired both the technical ability in managing and analyzing data sets to the personal computer (knowledge and skills) and interpreting the results obtained (competences).

The Professor takes appointments (Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, lab. UPIT, Via Ferrata 5, e-mail: cristiana.larizza@unipv.it).