Case Studies in Medicine

Statistics in Practice

This is a free Teaching Resource Pack for Statistics and Science A-level Teaching.

Designed by De Montfort University, Leicester, and BASF Pharma, a Nottingham-based pharmaceutical company, with the help of the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education and Nottingham Trent University, this pack is intended to provide a valuable and practical resource to teachers involved in teaching statistical methods within A-level science and mathematics syllabuses.

The pack consists of student cards containing background information and real datasets from medical research.  The problems covered include:

  • Summarising data
  • Hypothesis testing:
       Z-test
       Chi-squared test
       t-test
       Wilcoxon rank sum test
  • Scatter plots and box plots
  • Correlation
  • Linear regression and prediction
  • Epidemiology
  • Topics for student projects

The student cards are accompanied by a Teacher's Guide containing outline solutions for all problems.

The pack was created to promote the appreciation of statistics amongst students and is the first of a series of packs planned by the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education.

A limited number of these resource packs are available free of charge by sending a C4 size SAE with a 44p stamp to the following address:

RSS Centre for Statistical Education (Teaching Resource Pack)
Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham
NG1 4BU

Alternatively, files containing the full contents of the packs can be downloaded in pdf form.  They need Adobe Acrobat Reader to be viewed. If you do not have this program you can down load it from here FREE. The Data Tables can also be downloaded as excel worksheets.

Statistics in Practice Statistics in Practice
Introduction Introduction Growing Problem Growing Problem
Case Study 1 Case Study 1 Case Study 1 Data Case Study 1 Data
Case Study 2 Case Study 2 Case Study 2 Data Case Study 2 Data
Case Study 3 Case Study 3 Case Study 3 Data Case Study 3 Data
Answers to Key Questions Answers to Key Questions

Teachers Guide:  This can be downloaded either to be put together as an A5 booklet, or with the pages in consecutive order.

A5 Booklet A5 Booklet Consecutive Pages Consecutive Pages