HCA201 Biostatistics

The course represents an introduction to the field of biostatistics and provides a survey of data and data types. Specific topics include tools for describing central tendency and variability in data, methods for performing inference on population means and proportions via sample data, statistical hypothesis testing and its application to group comparisons, issues of power and sample size in study designs, and random sample studies and other study types. Emphasis is on using R software. (Prerequisites: MATH115 and BIOL101 or BIOL103).