Probability and Statistics in the Health Sciences

Catalog description

This course covers topics in probability and statistics considered useful to those students planning on a career in the health sciences. The topics covered include probability principles and distributions in health sciences, types of epidemiologic study designs, estimation of medical parameters in defined patient populations, test of hypothesis, measures and analysis of treatment of the sick, analysis of variance, methods of medical outcome prediction, and prospective, retrospective and cross-sectional studies of disease occurrence. Satisfies Magis Core: Designated Statistical Reasoning and Designated Technology. P: Mathematical Reasoning course.