BIOST 517
Applied Biostatistics I
Fall quarter, 2019
Taught by professor Timothy Thornton, PhD
Description
This course provides an introduction to applied statistics, with an emphasis on medical and epidemiological data. The course is designed for graduate students in public health and medical fields. The major topics covered are data summary, introduction to statistical inference including "simple" (i.e. one-covariate) regressions, and statistical testing. The role of these in scientific applications is stressed throughout.