Biostatistics I with R Lab

Course Director: Xi Kathy Zhou, PhD

This course introduces the fundamentals of biostatistics with a primary emphasis on the understanding of statistical concepts behind data analytic principles through applications in biomedical studies. This course will enhance students’ proficiency in using R, a freely available software, to explore, visualize, and perform statistical analysis with data. Topics covered include: exploratory data analysis; basic concepts of statistics; construction of hypothesis tests and confidence intervals; performance of statistical comparisons; simple modeling; and determination of power and sample size.