Specific Papers and Presentation

Sometimes all you want is a shorter, more direct description of a specific issue. Once again, there is a wide range of material available. Choose with discretion but here are some examples that may be of use:

Research design and their relative merits:

• An Introduction to Clinical Trials: Design Issues
  http://ictr.johnshopkins.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/7.19.13.Miller-Clinical-Trials.pdf

• Different types of clinical evidence and study design
  http://www. bmjopen.bmj.com/site/about/resources/types_of_study_design.ppt

• Understanding retrospective and prospective study design
  http://medicine.emory.edu/documents/research/kalogeropoulos-study-design-talk.pdf

Statistical analysis:

• Unadjusted analysis
  https://www.nature.com/bmt/journal/v28/n10/full/1703260a.html

• Regression modeling
  http://www.nature.com/bmt/journal/v28/n11/full/1703271a.html

• Time-to-event analysis
  http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2499261

• Survival analysis
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4111957/pdf/nihms595225.pdf
  www.pitt.edu/~super4/33011-34001/33111.ppt

• Simple ‘How to’ guide for producing a Kaplan Meier curve, log-rank test and Cox Proportional Hazard regression in SPSS
  http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.230028!/file/Survival_analysis_ME.pdf