Biostatistics

Catalog description

PHRM 511: Biostatistics This course introduces students to the concepts and methods of biostatistics. The skills learned in this course build the quantitative foundation that students will apply to evaluate the biomedical literature and assess its applicability to their patients. Descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, and hypothesis testing will be presented. Non-parametric methods, simple and multivariable regression methods, and survival analyses used in evaluating outcomes associated with pharmacologic therapies and other medical interventions in populations will be introduced. Emphasis will be placed on developing skills for the correct interpretation and evaluation of results. (