DAS in Management of Clinical Trials · Module 2: Principles and Methods of Clinical Research
University of Geneva · 2026/2027

Descriptive statistics and statistical inference

Mucyo Karemera and Stéphane Guerrier

These are the slides of our contribution to the programme: four statistics lectures given on 22 September 2026 (Topics 7 to 10). A published randomised trial on sore throat (Hayward et al., JAMA 2017) serves as a common thread, from describing the data to testing and planning.

  1. Topic 7Descriptive statistics
  2. Topic 8Confidence intervals
  3. Topic 9Hypothesis testing
  4. Topic 10Errors, power and multiple testing

Sources

Excerpts of Hayward et al. (JAMA 2017;317(15):1535, doi:10.1001/jama.2017.3417) are reproduced for commentary and teaching, with citation; copyright remains with the American Medical Association. The xkcd comic “Significant” by Randall Munroe is used under CC BY-NC 2.5.

Licence

The slides are licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Third-party material keeps its own terms: the JAMA excerpts, the xkcd comic, the Open Science Collaboration figure and KaTeX (MIT licence).