Biostatistics for Health Professions

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(Also offered as STAT 3005 .) Introduction to biostatistical techniques, concepts, and reasoning using in a broad range of biomedical and public health related scenarios. Specific topics include description of data, statistical hypothesis testing and its application to group comparisons, and tools for modeling different type of data, including categorical, and time-event, data. Emphasis on the distinction of these methods, their implementation using statistical software, and the interpretation of results applied to health sciences research questions and variables.