Public Health 590AF - Biostatistics Methods I

This course is designed to give students the basic computational and statistical skills to organize and summarize data and will serve as an introduction to the fundamental principles of biostatistical inference. The course emphasizes general statistical concepts, including interpretation of numeric data summaries and basic analysis methods, using a variety of examples and exercises from biomedical and public health studies. Data analysis with the open-source, freely available statistical programming environment, R (http://cran.us.r-project.org) will be emphasized.

Students are expected to be familiar with college algebra. Calculus is recommended by not required.