Biostatistics in Public Health

4 credits

Fundamentals of biostatistics and basic methods for analysis of continuous and binary outcomes for one, two, or several groups. Includes: summarizing and displaying data; probability; statistical distributions; central limit theorem, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing; comparing means of continuous variables between two groups; comparing proportions between two groups; simple and multiple linear regression. Hands-on data analysis using software and statistical applications in public health. Must be taken for a letter grade to be applied to the public health major. Renumbered from FMPH 102. Students may not receive credit for FMPH 102 and PH 102. Prerequisites: PH 40 or FMPH 40 and PSYC 60, HDS 60, MATH 11, or COGS 14B, and upper-division standing.