Statistics for the Biomedical Sciences

Catalog description

This course introduces statistical concepts and analytical methods as applied to data encountered in the biomedical sciences and engineering. It emphasizes the basic concepts of experimental design, quantitative analysis of data, and statistical inference. Topics include probability theory and distributions; population parameters and their sample estimates; descriptive statistics for central tendency and dispersion; hypothesis testing and confidence intervals for means and proportions; categorical data analysis including relative risk, odds ratios, and the chi-square statistic; correlation and simple linear regression.