This is the more advanced MPH biostatistics core course. This course is recommended for students concentrating in biostatistics, environmental health, or epidemiology, and for students with previous exposure to statistical methods or an interest in public health research methods. Topics include confidence intervals and hypothesis testing; sample size and power considerations; analysis of variance and multiple comparisons; correlation and regression; multiple regression and statistical control of confounding; logistic regression; and survival analysis. This course gives students the skills to perform, present, and interpret basic statistical analyses, using the R statistical computing package. For the more advanced topics, the focus is on interpretative skills and critically reading the literature. This course satisfies the core biostatistics requirement for MPH students. Biostatistics concentrators should take this course, though the course does not count towards the 16 required concentration credits. Students who take BS703 cannot take BS701 for degree credit.

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