PUBH6450: Biostatistics I

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

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