PH 525 Introduction to Biostatistics

Intended for non-epidemiology and biostatistics majors. An introductory course covering descriptive graphical and numerical measures, probability concepts, hypothesis testing and confidence interval estimation. Methods discussed include one- and two- sample t-tests, one- and two-sample nonparametric tests, simple categorical data analysis, analysis of variance, correlation, and simple linear regression. Homework will require use of a statistical software package. This course satisfies the core statistics requirement in the MPH program for non-epidemiology and biostatistics majors.