9th Tata Annual Biostatistics & Clinical Research Methodology Course 2025
Venue: Tata Medical Center, Kolkata (Auditorium, Education Block, Phase II)
Jointly organised by Tata Medical Center, Kolkata and Indian Psychiatric Society, West Bengal Chapter
Date: 22-23rd August 2025
Day 1 Friday - 22nd August 2025
Time Topic Speaker
09.00 – 9.05 am Introduction to program Dr Soumitra S Datta
09.05 – 9.10 am Welcome speech Dr P Arun
09.10 – 9.15 am Why do we need to know about research methods ? Dr Aniruddha Deb
09.15 – 9.20 am Welcome on behalf of Indian Psychiatric Society Dr Sanjay Garg
Types of data/measurement scales/ measurements of
09.20 – 10.00 am central tendency/dispersion/sample size calculation Dr Arijit Nag
Bivariate statistics (Chi square, Fisher exact test,
10.00 – 10.30 am Student t test, Man Whitney test) Dr Indranil Mallick
10.30 – 10.50 Tests of significance (p-value and confidence interval) Dr Indranil Mullick
11.00 – 11. 30 am Tea break
11:30 – 12:30 pm Writing a paper (IMRAD) Dr Soumitra S Datta
Diagnostic accuracy testing (Sensitivity, Specificity,
12.30 – 01.30 pm predictive power, ROC curve) Dr Suvro Sankha Datta
01.30 – 02.30 pm Lunch
2:30-3:00 pm Research Ethics Dr Prateek Jain
3:00 – 5.30 Workshop (Tea Break – 15 minutes at 4 pm)
Workshop: Pubmed search and Reference Dr Prateek Jain &
3:00 - 5:30 pm Management (Zotero) Dr Shouriyo Ghosh
Day 2 Saturday - 23rd August 2025
Time Topic Speaker
09.00 - 10:00 am RCT and Systematic review Dr Soumitra S Datta
10:00 – 10. 45 am Survival Analysis- an overview Dr Sanjit Agrawal
10.45 – 11.15 am Tea Break
11.15 -12.30 am Correlation and regression Dr Soumitra S Datta
Research Collaborations - How do we go about in
12.30 – 01.30 pm LMICs? Dr Suvro Sankha Datta
1:30 – 2:30 pm Lunch
2.30 – 5.30 Workshop (Tea Break – 15 minutes at 4 pm)
Dr Sanjit Agrawal &
2:30 - 5:30 pm Workshop: SPPS hands-on training Dr Soumitra S Datta
Dr Dr Suvro Sankha Datta &
5:30-6:00pm Closing session Dr Prateek Jain