BSTT 601: Methods in Biostatistics I

The course introduces the basic statistical concepts and methods as applied to diverse problems in public health, medicine and clinical trials. It demonstrates methods of exploring, organizing, and presenting data, and introduces fundamentals of probability, including probability distributions and conditional probability with applications to case control studies and diagnostic testing.It presents the foundations of statistical inference, including concepts of population parameter, sampling and sampling distribution of estimates, and approaches to inferences using confidence intervals and hypothesis tests for normal and non normal data, sample size estimation, contingency tables and chisquare tests, 1 way analysis of variance, simple linear regression and correlation. Statistical software package, STATA is employed to manipulate data and for data analysis.