Biostatistics

Catalog description

This course provides students with a foundation in statistics with special focus on biomedical applications such as epidemiology, combined with an introduction in R, a robust and widely used statistical package. Topics covered include: descriptive statistics, probabilities, frequency distributions, hypothesis testing, Fisher and Chi-square tests, Z-score, data normalization and T-test. Additionally, more elaborated strategies including Analysis of Variance, correlation, linear regression and Bayesian statistics will be introduced, as these methods are considered essential tools for biomedical sciences. Prerequisite Course(s): Prerequisites: BIOL 110, MATH 136 or greater Classroom Hours - Laboratory and/or Studio Hours – Course Credits: 3-0-3