BIOS 6300 Applied Statistical Methods for Data Analysis

3 SCH The course emphasizes the design, implementation, analysis, and reporting of research investigations. Topics include two-sample inference using t-distributions, alternatives to t-test based analyses, comparisons among several samples, linear combinations, and multiple comparisons, simple and multiple linear regression methods, regression diagnostics, variable selection, and related methods, the repeated measures and other multivariate responses, exploratory tools for summarizing multivariate responses, logistics methods for binary response variables and binomial counts, log-linear regression for Poisson counts, hierarchical (multilevel) and structural equation modeling will be discussed and life tables, Kaplan-Meier and proportional hazards methods for analysis of time to event data. Prerequisites: BIOS 5300, BIOS 5310 or permission from course instructor.