birihub / medicaldiagnosticsstartup

Assignments of the 2° year course probability & statistics of informatics bachelor at University of Italian Switzerland USI

MedicalDiagnosticsStartup

1° Theory

Some questions about probability topics such as :

1. Random Variables and discrete probability
2. Conditional probability and Bayes theorem
3. Continuous distribution and exponential
4. Linear regression and estimation
5. Logistic regression and prediction
6. Hypothesis testing

2. Practice

Medical diagnostic startup company

Just imagine that you are a CEO of a start-up company in medical diagnostics. You are planning to launch a new diagnostic tool to detect diabetes in women using easily available information without invasive testing. You want to convince investors to invest in your company and you need to given them a report with the potential of your test.

The easily available values we will utilize include:

1. pregnant: Number of times pregnant
2. glucose: Plasma glucose concentration at 2 hours in an oral glucose tolerance test
3. diastolic: Diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg)
4. triceps: Triceps skin fold thickness (mm)
5. insulin: 2-Hour serum insulin (mu U/ml)
6. bmi: Body mass index (weight in kg/(height in metres squared))
7. age: Age (years)

We have conducted a clinical trial involving 768 women, where we recorded whether or not they had diabetes (the outcome of the test). The data from this trial is available on the repository.

Report Contents

This report covers the following points:

• Research problem
• Exploratory analysis
• Formal analysis
• Answer to the research problem
• Conclusion about the analysis