Applied Biostatistics I Credits: 3

Catalog description

This course is the first course in the Biostatistics sequence and is intended for students, physicians, and researchers. It introduces statistical concepts, analysis methods, and research designs for data commonly encountered in biological, clinical, and medical research. Topics include an introduction to SPSS, types of data, descriptive statistics, illustrative statistics, sampling, hypothesis testing, parametric and nonparametric analysis, correlation, linear regression, and graphic representation of data. Familiarity with basic statistics is not required. Statistical analyses involved in this course can be performed in SPSS or SAS. Students using SAS must have a working knowledge of SAS.