Biostatistics is an essential skill for every public health researcher and scientist. This course is an introductory course on biostatistics. Topics include types of data, summary measures of numerical and categorical data, visual displays, common portability distributions, statistical hypothesis testing, common statistical tests, and regression analysis. Throughout the course, both STATA and R will be used to practice biostatistics skills.
The specific objectives of this course are to provide a basic understanding of:
- To understand the basic biostatistics terms and notation.
- To understand the concepts underlying most statistical analyses, as a foundation for more advanced methods.
- To acquire skills to manage and summarize data and conduct basic statistics using STATA or R.
- To be able to present and visualize data.
- To understand basic statistical analyses in published journals.
- Instructor: Ali Mirzazadeh