Concepts of Research Statistics

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This course will introduce students to the basic concepts of Statistics including hypothesis testing, types of statistical tests, level of significance, statistical power, effect size, sample size calculation, and P value. After this course, it is expected that students will be able to meaningfully participate in the statistical design of their own experiments. Additionally, the concepts in this course should enable all students to understand their own research projects better and critically evaluate scientific literature from a statistical standpoint.