MasterClass in Biostatistics and Epidemiology to critically appraise scientific communications À distance

Day 1 – theoretical lectures with strong interaction with participants

Fundamental basics in statistical testing, interpretations and misinterpretations of alpha, beta, and p-values, statistical power and sample size calculation, introduction to survival analysis and Kaplan-Meier curves.

Day 2 - theoretical lectures with strong interaction with participants

Quantification of associations and biases, introduction to multivariate regression models, study design for causal inference.

Day 3 - practicals on published papers

Critical appraisal of statistical methods and results presented in papers, interpreting results from a survival analysis, statistical power of a study and sample size calculation.

Day 4 – practicals on published papers

Anticipating and discussing the presence of biases for causal inference, interpretation of results from univariate and multivariate regression models, critical appraisal of clinical messages delivered in published papers

Veterinary residents or interns, PhD students, academic staff, and veterinary surgeons from private companies or 
clinics involved in clinical veterinary research. Non veterinarians can attend the MasterClass if the maximum 
number of participants has not been reached. 

Maximum number of participants: 20.

This MasterClass is 100% online and will be held on the 26th, 27th, 30th, and 31st of March, 2026. It comprises lectures 
the first two days (before the week-end), and practicals the next two days (after the week-end). Practicals will be 
based on results presented in papers published in international per-reviewed veterinary journals. The participants 
will be asked to prepare the practicals during the week-end (reading of papers). 

Points CFC_ECTS : 3,15