STAT 358T Introduction to Biostatistics (Not offered 2006-2007; to be offered 2007-2008) (Q)

This course discusses statistical methods and models useful in the biological sciences. It will briefly review methods of inference for continuous data and then cover topics in discrete data analysis such as logistic regression and exact inference for proportions. The second part of the course deals with the analysis of time-to-event or survival data. Topics include discussion and modeling of the hazard and survivor function through the Kaplan-Meier method and through the proportional hazard model. All methods will be implemented using a statistical software package.
Format: tutorial. Evaluation will be based primarily on performance on written work, oral presentations, and projects.
Prerequisites: Statistics 201 or permission of instructor. Enrollment limit:10 (expected:10).

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