Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Epidemiology (EPI 159)

3 credits · Graduate

(HUMBIO students must enroll in EPI 159. Med/Graduate students must enroll in EPI 259.) Topics: random variables, expectation, variance, probability distributions, the central limit theorem, sampling theory, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals. Correlation, regression, analysis of variance, and nonparametric tests. Introduction to least squares and maximum likelihood estimation. Emphasis is on medical applications.