Biostatistics for the Health and Human Sciences

3 cr · Graduate

An introduction to statistical ideas and techniques for health sciences and human research. Describing data, patterns in data, the normal distribution. Principles of estimation and principles of hypothesis testing. Principles and practice of the major statistical tests (t tests, analysis of variance, Chi squared tests, correlation and regression). Nonparametric statistical techniques. The use of statistical software to carry out statistical analysis. Analytical decision strategies.