Biostatistics

Catalog description

This course introduces topics in biostatistical concepts and reasoning. Students learn about the field of biostatistics as the explore survey of data and the types of data types used. The emphasis of the course is on interpretation and concepts used in the field as students explore the fundamentals of special topics associated with the field such as describing central tendency and variability in data, basic methods for performing inference on population means and proportions via sample data. Students receive an overview of statistical hypothesis testing and its application to group comparisons, relevance of issues of power and sample size in study designs, and random sampling and other study types.