Course Overview

Course Title: Biostatistics
Credit Points: 12
Nominal Hours:
Course Coordinator: A/Prof Stella Stylianou
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Course Coordinator Email: stella.stylianou@rmit.edu.au
Course Summary

This course will introduce you to the topic of statistics as applied in biological, medical and epidemiological fields. The course will begin with an introduction to summary statistics, data visualisation and probability as a measure for uncertainty. The course will then build upon these topics by introducing statistical data investigations, sampling, sampling distributions and confidence intervals as the basis for statistical inference. The course will finish with a series of modules looking at common hypothesis testing methods for different types of data. The course emphasises conceptual understanding, interpretation of statistical output and the use of statistical software packages for statistical computation.

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