Foundations in Statistics for Biology and Medicine

This course provides essential statistical knowledge and skills for conducting graduate research in biology and medicine. Using statistical analysis software, students will engage in hands-on analysis of biological and medical data, covering a range of topics including data cleaning and shaping, descriptive statistics, probability distributions, parametric and non-parametric tests, correlation, mean differences, analysis of variance, regression (linear and logistic), and graphical presentation of data as well as an overview of more advanced methods. By the end of the course, students will demonstrate their learning into a final project that demonstrates the application of statistical methods to a real-world research problem.