| Course ID: | BIOS 3000. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | 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 biomedicine. |
| Oasis Title: | Intermed Biostat for Pub Hlth |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in BIOS 3000E |
| Prerequisite: | BIOS 2010-2010L or STAT 2000 |
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 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 |