EHEALTH 705 / Statistics for eHealth

3 unit(s)

Staff

Prerequisite(s): Enrolment in the MSc eHealth program or permission of the instructor

Antirequisite(s): HRM 701

This course covers basic statistical concepts and techniques as they apply to the analysis and presentation of data in eHealth practice. The statistical software package SPSS will be used extensively. The course includes graphical presentation of data, elementary probability, descriptive statistics, and probability distributions. Statistical inferencing techniques, including statistical decision theory, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests (z-tests, t-tests, and nonparametric methods), ANOVA, contingency tables, chi-square tests, correlation, and simple and multiple regression. Students will analyze data gathered from eHealth studies and will review examples drawn from published eHealth research.