3.00 Credits
This course focuses on enhancing students' abilities in problem solving in statistics with a concentration on applications to biology. The course is a calculus-based course in biostatistics emphasizing methods for collecting, graphing, examining, and interpreting data. The course provides both the theoretical framework and the analytical tools for performing data analysis. Special emphasis will be placed upon using available statistical methods for both exploratory and confirmatory data analysis. Topics include discrete and continuous random variables, mean and variance, hypothesis testing and confidence limits, nonparametric methods, Student's t-test, analysis of variance, correlation, and ordinary least squares. It may include a subset of further topics which may include, but not be limited to, contingency table analysis, random effects models, mixed models, regression, sensitivity and specificity.