HTH RS M 703 / Introduction to Biostatistics: Laboratory Section

3 unit(s)

Prerequisite(s): Enrolment in HRM; or eHealth/Health Policy programs plus permission of instructor.

Antirequisite(s): HRM *701, HTH RS M 702.

Basic statistical concepts and techniques as they apply to the presentation and analysis of data encountered in laboratory oriented research. Topics include: descriptive statistics; graphic display principles; elementary probability; univariate distributions: normal, t, chi-square, F; hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, sample sizes and assumptions for means and proportions generated from one, two or many samples; transformations; regression and correlation; analysis of variance; experimental design principles and analyses. This course is evaluated on a pass/fail basis.