Core Principles of Biostatistics and Epidemiology for Public Health Practice

ID 201 2 Subject & Catalog Number

Description

This course will provide an introduction to the methods of biostatistics and epidemiology in the context of public health and clinical research. The focus will be on applications, providing students with the skills necessary to critically interpret issues related to study design and data analysis in the public health literature. The computer is used throughout the course. Didactic lectures will be posted on the course website along with self-assessment questions. There is one required in-person interactive class session and one in-person lab session each week. Topics include measures of frequency and association, study designs, bias, confounding, screening tests, probability distributions, estimation and statistical inference, sample size estimation, and regression methods.

For Section 3 (MPH GEN ONLY):
Same as above, except : MPH GEN students will be offered one synchronous interactive class session and one weekly lab session on Zoom each week.