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IDSP 226 - Basic Biostatistics


Director(s): Elizabeth Disbrow, PhD (Dept of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Neuroscience)
1 Credit, letter grade

This course is designed for graduate students who have little background in statistics. The lectures and associated homework assignments will provide working knowledge of basic statistical methods and their applications. Lectures will be based on chapters from the textbook. Topics will include frequency distribution, correlations, regression analysis, probability, distributions and hypothesis testing. Examples of use of these methods, descriptions of experimental design incorporating these methods and ethical treatment of data will be considered in all aspects of the course.

Resources for Learning:
Understanding Statistics in the Behavioral Sciences, R. Pagano, 10th edition

Prerequisites: none

Offered: annually, spring semester