Biostatistics: 3 semester hours

Catalog description

This course teaches the statistical methods and principles necessary for understanding and interpreting data used in nutrition, health care, public health, and epidemiology. Topics include descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, graphical data summary, sampling, statistical comparison of groups (, t-tests, chi-squared, ANOVA), correlation, and regression. Students will learn via lecture, group discussions, critical reading of published research, and analysis of data using SPSS, SAS, and STATA. Prerequisites: MATH 2003 or MATH 1342 .