Course Description

The course has an emphasis on the application and interpretation of statistical tests commonly employed in epidemiologic research. It is not a mathematics course and so will not stress derivations of formulae but rather will emphasize statistics concepts and the application of statistical methods to test hypotheses in epidemiologic datasets. Topics include descriptive statistics, probability and probability distributions, point and confidence interval estimation, hypothesis testing for means, proportions, elementary non-parametric techniques, tests for categorical data, ANOVA, correlations and introduction to regression methods. Students will be introduced to SAS in weekly laboratory sessions to learn how to enter and manage datasets and perform data analysis using statistical methods covered in the course.