2009 Midyear Clinical Meeting
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Basic Statistics: A Non-Threatening Approach to the Use of Statistics in Clinical Trials
Track:
Pre-Meeting Workshops (CE)
Program Code: 299-L04
Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009
Time: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST
Location:
Veronese 2504
MEETING PLANNING ASSOCIATE:
Ms. JoAnn Harris, Director, Educational Programs, ASHP
PRESENTER:
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James DeMuth,
PhD, Professor,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
JAMES E. De MUTH, Ph.D., R.Ph. is a professor in Extension Services in Pharmacy and the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received the B.S. in Pharmacy degree from Drake University and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Pharmacy Continuing Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His primary responsibilities are the development, implementation and evaluation of continuing education offerings for individuals in the pharmaceutical industry and pharmacists within the United States. In recent years, he has focused primarily of outreach programs for scientists working in the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. De Muth has authored over 40 research articles in the pharmacy and adult education literature and Basic Statistics and Pharmaceutical Statistical Applications. He has taught over 150 statistical short courses in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Western Europe, China and the Middle East. Dr. De Muth received the 1993 Rufus A. Lyman Award for most notable original research and/or scholarly work published in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and 2000 William A. Blockstein Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy for contributions to the field of continuing pharmaceutical education. For over 20 years he served on the Institutional Review Board of Covance Laboratories in Madison. He served as the chair of the Biostatistics Expert Committee (2000-2005) and is currently (2005-2010) chair of General Chapters Expert Committee for the United States Pharmacopeia/National Formulary.
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Description
ACPE Activity #204-000-09-299-L04P
8.0 Contact Hours / Application-based
Pre-registration required; onsite registration not available.
Faculty: James E. DeMuth, PhD, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Learning Objectives:
LEARNER OUTCOMES:
- Define statistical terms commonly encountered in the literature.
- Discuss the major type of variables and define the general rule of probability in inferential statistics.
- Evaluate example problems to identify the type of variables involved and the most appropriate statistical test(s) to use.
- List various graph and numeric methods for presenting descriptive statistics.
- Select the appropriate statistical test given the type of data presented.