Principles of Biostatistics

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This course presents an introduction to the theory and methods used in biostatistics. Students will learn to apply statistics to explain the occurrence and control of disease as well as to the evaluate public health programs. This course also will introduce students to the theories applied to common statistical methods and principles used in public health, such as those related to disease measurement and distribution, probability, hypothesis testing, statistical significance, sampling, and univariate, bivariate and multivariate analysis. This course is part of the core course requirement for the MPH program. Students are also taught the statistical software SPSS.