BIOSTATISTICS AND INFORMATICS IN PUBLIC HEALTH

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This course presents descriptive and inferential statistics to be applied in the design, analysis and interpretation of research in the field of public health. The design, development and interpretation of tables, preparation of graphs, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, concepts of probability and correlation in the descriptive statistics, as well as the parametric and non -parametric tests in the inferential statistics will be emphasized. In addition, guidelines for the critical appraisal of published research relevant to the field of public health will be examined.