Introduction to Biostatistics with STATA Lab

Course Code: 
HBDS 5001
Course Director: 
Arindam RoyChoudhury, PhD
Credits: 
4
Course Description: 

Course Director: Arindam RoyChoudhury, PhD

An introduction to the fundamentals of biostatistics with primary emphasis on understanding of statistical concepts behind data analytic principles. This course will be accompanied with a Stata lab to explore, visualize and perform statistical analysis with data. Lectures and discussions will focus on the following: exploratory data analysis; basic concepts of statistics; construction of hypothesis tests and confidence intervals; the development of statistical methods for analyzing data; and development of mathematical models used to relate a response variable to explanatory or descriptive variables.

Course Term: 
Fall Term