Day 1(25/08/2018) – Statistics in Oncology
Registration: 8.30-9.00 am
Time Topic Speaker
09.00 – 09.10 am Welcome speach Dr. Mammen Chandy
09.10 – 09.20 am Introduction to program Sanjit Agrawal/ S.S. Datta
09.30 – 10.00 am Type of data and measurements of central tendency Dr. Manas Roy
10.00 – 11.00 am Tests of significance (p value and confidence interval) Dr. Samiran Panda (NARI)
11.00 – 11.15 am Tea Break
11.15 - 12:00 Diagnostic accuracy testing (Sensitivity, Specificity, predictive power, ROC curve) Prof. Prathap Tharyan, (CMC Vellore)
12:00 – 1:00 pm Bivariate statistics (Chi square, Fisher exact test, Student t test, Man Whitney test) Dr. Samiran Panda (NARI)
1.00 – 1.30 pm Lunch Break
1.30 – 2.30 pm Multivariate analysis Dr. Samiran Panda (NARI)
2.30 - 3.30 pm Survival Analysis Dr. Santam Chakroborty (TMC)
3.30 – 4.00 pm Tea Break
4.00 - 6.00 pm Excel and SPSS workshop Dr. S. Agrawal/ S.S.Datta /P. Jain/ S. Ghose

Day 2(26/08/2018) - Clinical Research Methodology

09.00 – 09.15 am Applying knowledge to practice: Making it a lifelong habit Dr. Reena Nair(TMC)
09. 15 – 10.00 am Case control study Prof. Prathap Tharyan, (CMC Vellore)
10.00- 11.00 am Cohort study Dr. Vivek Radhakrishnan(TMC)
11.00 – 11.30 am Tea Break
11.30am -12.30pm Randomised controlled study (Randomization, Blinding, Allocation concealment) Prof. Prathap Tharyan, (CMC Vellore)
12.30 - 1.00 pm Group discussion
1.00 – 1.30 pm Lunch Break
1.30 – 3.00 pm Meta – analysis Prof. Prathap Tharyan, (CMC Vellore)
3.00 – 3.30 pm Tea Break
3.30 – 4.00 pm Grant application Dr. Mohandas Mallah (TMC)
4.00 – 4.30 pm Valedictory session