Dental Biostatistics

Catalog description

DBS1001 is an introductory course in biostatistics, research design and methodology, and epidemiology. This course is offered to first year dental students. Topics covered include the nature of data, descriptive statistics, research study design, statistical inference, confidence interval estimation, elementary probability, comparison of two-sample means and proportions, simple linear regression, and correlation. Parametric and non-parametric methods are discussed. Other research methodology such as systemic review and meta-analysis are also covered. The course will introduce the basic principles and methods of epidemiology and demonstrate the applicability to public health and dentistry.