STATISTICS AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN FOR THE BIOLOGICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES

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This course provides an introduction to statistical theory and experimental methods as applied to the biological and health sciences. Topics include experimental design for the study of biological systems in the field and the laboratory, hypothesis testing, graphical and numerical approaches to presenting data sets, statistical methods, discrete and continuous data, and the distinction between parametric and nonparametric data. The course includes instruction in the presentation and interpretation of results.