Courses Details
BIOSTAT501: Introduction to Biostatistics
- Graduate level
- Online MPH only
- This is a second year course for Online students
- Fall term(s) for online MPH students;
- 2 credit hour(s) for online MPH students;
- Instructor(s): Myra Kim (Online MPH);
- Prerequisites: SPH MPH or permission of instructor
- Description: Statistical methods and principles necessary for understanding and interpreting data used in public health and policy evaluation and formation. Topics include descriptive statistics, graphical data summary, sampling, statistical comparison of groups, correlation, and regression. Students will learn via lecture, group discussions, critical reading of published research, and analysis of data.
- This course is required for the school-wide core curriculum
- Residential Syllabus for BIOSTAT501
| Department | Program | Degree | Competency | Specific course(s) that allow assessment | Population and Health Sciences | MPH | Compare population health indicators across subpopulations, time, and data sources | PUBHLTH515, BIOSTAT592, EPID590, EPID592, EPID643, BIOSTAT595, BIOSTAT501 | Population and Health Sciences | MPH | Estimate population health indicators from high quality data resources from diverse sources | PUBHLTH515, EPID643, NUTR590, BIOSTAT592, BIOSTAT501 |
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