Bio-Statistics

Catalog description

This course introduces students to a widely applicable contemporary field of Biostatistics, particularly stressing the use of free computer package R, which allows quick and precise way to solve Statistical problems. This discipline is an integral part of contemporary Medicine, Biology, Ecology, and Agriculture etc. We focus on how to use R to solve real world problems. The course is at the introductory level, with just a basic knowledge of Math (not including Calculus) and basic computing as the only prerequisites. Biomedical examples are drawn from a number of fields including Epidemiology, Nutrition, Zoology, Ecology, and Demography are presented. The Statistical topics included in the course are Data Analysis, Confidence intervals, Hypothesis testing, Goodness of fit, Linear Correlation and Regression, Analysis of Variance.