If you’re preparing for your AKT exam and struggle with stats, this is for you!
Listen to a 2 minute sample
The statistics section is a challenging area to revise so we have condensed material into a (just under) 2 hour audiobook. It aims to simplify key stats principles with easy-to-follow examples, allowing your confidence with statistics to grow.
From forest plots to risk calculations, from types of research to types of bias, from screening tables to funnel plots – we’ve got it all!
🗣 “So useful! Somehow understand graphs without seeing them!”
🗣 “Brilliant resource! Hated stats before this”
🗣 “Really simple to understand, couldn’t have got my stats score without this”
What is covered:
👉 CHAPTER 1 – Basic Stats Principles
1) Basic numbers (Mean, Mode, Median, Range)
2) Distribution of results
3) Standard deviation
👉 CHAPTER 2 – Research Theory
4) Types of data collection
5) Ethnography
6) Research hierarchy
7) Observation studies (Cohort, Case-control, Cross-sectional)
8) Interventional studies (eg Randomised-control trials)
9) Randomisation and blinding
10) Parametric vs Non-parametric tests
11) P values and significance
12) Systematic reviews vs Meta-analysis
👉 CHAPTER 3 – Graphs
13) Bar charts
14) Histograms
15) Scatter plots
16) Box plots
17) Forrest plots
18) Confidence intervals
19) Funnel plots (including publication bias)
20) Cates diagrams
👉 CHAPTER 4 – Calculations and Equations
21) Odds vs Risk
22) Odds ratios and Risk ratios
23) Absolute risk reduction
👉 CHAPTER 5: Miscellaneous Statistics
24) Bias
25) Confounding
26) Hazard and hazard ratios
27) Reliability and validity
28) Type 1 and type 2 error
29) Incidence and prevalence
30) Mortality rates
31) Clinical audit
32) Screening in UK (including Wilson’s criteria)
33) Prevention (1, 2 and 3)
34) QALY’s
35) Triangulation
36) Grounded theory
👉 CHAPTER 6: Screening Tables
40) How to construct a table
41) Sensitivity and specificity
42) Positive and negative predictive values
43) Calculations simplified
This audiobook is also available as part of the following discounted bundles: AKT Gold Pass Package, AKT Triple Audiobook Bundle
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* No real AKT questions discussed.
* Designed to be used alongside AKT preparation material eg questions banks, background reading.
* Not for medical advice – to be used solely as a revision aid for medical exams.
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