BMSC 5300 Biostatistics for Biomedical Sciences

This course is specifically designed serve as a foundation in biostatistics for biomedical sciences graduate students with intentions to continue their education in medicine, or advance in the fields of biotechnology or clinical research management. The course provides students with training to effectively evaluate the biostatistical approaches appropriate for different research designs and to critically assess statistical results presented in professional journals or research reports. Topics include exploratory data analysis; descriptive statistics; probability and probability distributions; estimation and hypothesis testing, analysis of frequencies, analysis of variance, correlation and simple linear regression. Parametric and nonparametric approaches are presented.