Biostatistical Methods in Clinical Research

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This course introduces the fundamentals of biostatistics and statistical thinking as applied to the biological, medical, and public health sciences. Students develop these skills by learning data analysis techniques that link real-world quantitative problems to statistical methodology. Topics include probability, sampling distributions and the central limit theorem, binomial and normal distributions, analysis of categorical and continuous data, hypothesis testing, bivariate statistical methods, analysis of variance, regression analysis, nonparametric methods, logistic regression, and survival analysis. Students will use SAS® or Minitab to create and manage data sets, generate variables, charts, plots, and tables, perform statistical analyses, and answer exam questions.