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Welcome to the Research Methods Wiki Page


 * Introduction and Housekeeping**

This page and sets of pages are specially created for students who will take the HLTH 460 or HLTH 462 course titled "Research Methods and Health Intervention" for students of the University of Canterbury, Health Sciences Centre. I am Arindam Basu, the course instructor. This is a wiki page. If you do not know what is wiki, please refer to the following site to learn more about wikis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

Briefly, wiki is a software that enables presentation on a webpage and allows on the fly editing of that information. For instance, this page is a wiki because it allows presentation of information and it also allows you to mark notes or make changes on the main text so that you can leave your remarks or make corrections or additions in this page. You are welcome to use all the features of this wiki. This is a collaborative learning. I will be presenting slides in the class but will also present additional notes and comments in the wiki pages, so that you can come back and use these wiki later for your learning.

Topics that will be covered in the wiki

Theories related to research designs applicable to healthcare settings Probability, Statistical Inference, and Hypotheses Introduction to Epidemiology Chance, bias, and confounding factors Cause-effect relationships in health care research Epidemiological study designs Discussions of validity and reliability Introduction to data mining and data pre-processing How to search for literature in the world wide web Different ways to evaluate evidence from research studies How to present data and information: going beyond powerpoint Basics of evidence based medicine How to conduct a health technology assessment

If you have any questions about the content pages, or if you would like to get in touch with me, write to me at arin.basu@gmail.com