Biostatistics in Public Health

Catalog description

This course helps students obtain basic and intermediate knowledge about biostatistics. This course briefly covers descriptive statistics, graphs and statistical tests, first seen in the introductory statistic course, with the emphasis on computing statistics using SPSS and on interpreting results and drawing a conclusion. The main focus of the course is on new materials such as one and two-sample parametric and non-parametric methods for analyzing continuous or discrete data, and different regression models, and report writing. Students work with SPSS software during the weekly online sessions, as well as in the homework. Students need to be enrolled in the MPH program or receive permission from instructor.