This course will cover the fundamental concepts of exploratory data analysis and statistical inference for univariate and bivariate data, including: •study design and sampling methods,•descriptive and graphical summaries,•random variables and their distributions, •interval estimation, •hypothesis testing, •relevant nonparametric methods, •simple regression/correlation, and•introduction to multiple regression.There will be a focus on analyzing data using statistical programming software and on communicating the results in short reports. Health science examples from the research literature will be used throughout the course.prereq: [College-level algebra, health sciences grad student] or instr consent