HTH RS M 774 / Introduction to Biostatistics (Online)

3 unit(s)

Prerequisite(s): Enrolment in the Graduate Diploma in Clinical Epidemiology (GDCE) or by permission of Assistant Dean- HRM and instructor.

This fully online course utilizes problems, published presentations, discussion boards, quizzes and tutorials to explore basic statistical concepts and techniques as they apply to analysis and presentation of data encountered in biostatistical and epidemiology practice. The course covers: graphical presentation of data, elementary probability, descriptive statistics, probability distributions, and introduces hypothesis testing using parametric and non-parametric methods.