BSTT 601 :METHODS IN BIOSTATISTICS

This course introduces basic statistical concepts and methods as applied to diverse problems in public health. It also introduced students to the basic data handling commands in Stata. Topics to be covered are: an introduction to classical inference including the distinctions between population and sample, and between statistics and population values, and types of data. It will also include analysis of continuous data, analysis of binary data, and analysis of count data within the concept of sampling distributions, estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, types I and II errors. The course will have a lab session on the use of Stata.