| Course ID: | BIOS 7010. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Introductory Biostatistics I |
Course
Description: | Introductory statistics with applications to medical and
biological problems. Topics to be covered include biostatistical
design in health research, data collection and management, and introductory concepts and methods of statistical data analysis. |
| Oasis Title: | Introductory Biostatistics I |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in BIOS 7001, BIOS 7001E, BIOS 7010E |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | This course is intended to serve as a introduction to Statistics
for those in health-related fields. Standard topics of
introductory statistics would be covered, but with more emphasis
on topics which are commonly encountered in the health sciences.
Topics not covered or not emphasized in traditional intro
Statistics courses but emphasized here would include: data
collection and management in health-related research, design of
health-related surveys and experiments, analysis of count and
Categorical data, and nonparametric statistical methods. |
| Topical Outline: | 1. Biostatistical Design of Medical Studies
2. Collection, Storage, and Retrieval of Health-Related Data
3. Descriptive Statistics
4. Statistical Inference (Populations vs. Samples)
5. One-Sample and Two-Sample Inference
6. Count Data
7. Contingency Tables & Categorical Data
8. Nonparametric Methods |