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Intermediate Biostatistics for Public Health Sciences


Course Description

A survey of statistical methods, with applications in public health and the biological sciences, including multiple regression, clinical trials, analysis of variance, categorical data analysis, and logistic regression. Motivating examples are drawn from public health and bio-medicine.


Athena Title

Intermed Biostat for Pub Hlth


Equivalent Courses

Not open to students with credit in BIOS 3000


Non-Traditional Format

This course will be taught 95% or more online.


Prerequisite

BIOS 2010-2010L or STAT 2000


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


Course Objectives

This course is intended to provide a second course in biostatistics to meet the requirements for the Public Health minor and B.S. in Health Promotion. All biostatistical concepts and procedures will be illustrated using public health and biomedical data. The successful student should be able to: 1. describe ethical and design issues in clinical trials, 2. implement relevant statistical procedures, 3. draw appropriate conclusions from results of statistical analyses.


Topical Outline

1. Introduction to Clinical Trials 2. Simple and Multiple Regression 3. Regression Diagnostics 4. One-Way Analysis of Variance 5. Analysis of Covariance 6. Categorical Data Analysis 7. Logistic Regression


Syllabus