Today, we share our fourth and final discussion in our four part series about statistics with Dr Shannon Morrison. 

In this episode, we discuss the following topics:

• the research methodology for designing a clinical trial
• pilot trials
• bias and confounding
• ethics committees and the process of ethics approval
• Forest plots

Resources for today's episode:

Zedstatistics (youtube channel) - short videos explaining various concepts in statistics from an Australian Statistician

Johns Hopkins Coursera Short Course - Biostatistics in Public Health (this course has free enrolment and takes approx 4 months to complete - it commenced on January 30th)

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