Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Introduction to scale validation (Online)
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3308-20-00-00	There are no available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 17/05/2020

Date and time	26.05.2020, at: 08:00 - 09.06.2020, at: 15:00
Regular seats	15
Course fee	3,960.00 kr.
Lecturers	Karl Bang Christensen
ECTS credits	2.10

Contact person	Susanne Kragskov Laupstad E-mail address: skl@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This is a generic course. This means that the course is reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list. The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at graduate schools in the other Nordic countries. All other participants must pay the course fee. Learning objectives The course introduces simple methods for analysis of validity of index scales that summarize information from several items. Examples from Patient Report Outcomes are used. The course covers classical psychometrics, confirmatory factor analyses, and methods for detection of differential item functioning. The computer exercises are based on SAS or R and on the last day of the course Mplus is used. Most of the methods discussed are relatively simple and can easily be made in SPSS. Syntax files are made available so students with only very basic SAS knowledge can easily participate. Content The course includes an introduction to options in study design, bias and confounding and to statistical methods for the analysis of epidemiologic data including simple methods for stratified analysis and analysis based on regression models. Illustrative examples are drawn from medical research. Participants Ph.D.-students and researchers within medicine, public health, epidemiology, sociology, and psychology. A basic knowledge of statistics will be assumed. Max. 15 participants. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: All graduate programmes Language Danish or English. Form A mixture of lectures and computer exercises. A compulsory exercise is handed out on the last day. Participants who bring relevant data of their own can do a compulsory exercise based on these, if the course director approves this. This exercise needs to be handed in by e-mail no later than three weeks after the last day on the course. Participants should bring their own laptop with SAS and a demo version of Mplus (https://www.statmodel.com/demo.shtml) installed. Course director Associate professor Karl Bang Christensen, Section of Biostatistics, kach@sund.ku.dk Teachers Associate professor Karl Bang Christensen, associate professor. Dates 26 May, 2 and 9 June 2020, all days 8-15. Course location CSS. Registration Please register before 29 April 2019. Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Formel requirements A basic knowledge of statistics will be assumed Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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