Principles of Biostatistics and Data Analysis

Catalog description

This course is the first in a two-part sequence (the sequel being PHP 1511: Applied Regression Analysis), designed to provide students with a broad-based exposure to modern methods and applications of probability and biostatistical inference. It is geared toward students concentrating in statistics and other students who desire a course that combines the mathematical underpinnings of statistical methods with timely applications in the biological, life and health sciences and related fields. Applications to real data from a variety of studies are used throughout the course to illustrate the materials, but the emphasis is on the principles of inference and the underlying theory. This course will also give students experience manipulating and analyzing data using the R statistical software package with RStudio interface. Students will work with statistical software during the homework assignments, but this is not a course in R