HSC 382 Fundamentals of Biostatistics
This course introduces the basic principles and methods of biostatistics, providing students a sound methodological foundation for public health practice. The purpose of the course is to teach fundamental concepts and techniques of descriptive and inferential statistics with applications in health care, medicine, public health, and epidemiology. In this course, you will learn basic statistics, including probability, descriptive statistics, inference for means and proportions, and regression methods. The analytic methods and applications focus on the topics including public health, epidemiology, and program evaluation.
Prerequisite: MATH 108 or MATH 110 or MATH 111 or MATH 112 or MATH 113 or MATH 114 or MATH 125 or MATH 132 or MATH 161 or MATH 162 or MATH 165 or MATH 166.