MAS367: Randomized Controlled Trials

This page contains additional information relevant to this module.

The lectures will be held in M503: Tuesdays 3-4 and Fridays 10-11

Course description

Course outline

Book (essential course notes)*

Matthews, JNS (2000) An Introduction to Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials Arnold

Books (useful for background but not essential)

Pocock, SJ (1983) Clinical trials: a practical approach Wiley

Altman, DG & Gore S (1982) Statistics in Practice BMA

Altman, DG (1991) Practical Statistics for Medical Research Chapman & Hall

Tutorial material
The mid-semester test will be held on 11 March 10-11. Solutions here and comments on the answers are given here.
A specimen exam paper is available here and solutions are here

* It was normal practice on this course to buy a copy of this book. Copies could be obtained via the author at a 50% reduction. The book is currently out of stock at the distributor and privately produced notes (identical to the book) will be provided, for the price of photocopying. In addition ten copies of the book are available in the Robinson Library.

John Matthews
17 January 2005

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