Introduction to Biostatistics

Catalog description

This course covers the essential components for the collection, analysis, and presentation of data in all areas of public health. Biostatistics is fundamental to ensuring that findings and practices in public health and biomedicine are supported by reliable evidence. Key to these skills is assessing the impact of chance and variability on the interpretation of research findings and subsequent recommendations for public health practice and policy. Topics covered include: general principles of study design; hypothesis testing; review of statistics methods for comparison of discrete and continuous data including but not limited to z-tests, Chi-square tests, t-tests, ANOVA and correlation/regression. Prerequisite: Completion of Area A2 mathematics with a “C” or better.