To provide consumers/producers of biomedical research with basic principles of statistical inference applicable to clinical and epidemiologic research so that they can:

1. understand how statistical methods are used by others
2. apply them in their own research
3. use them as a base for more advanced biostatistics courses.
   

See detailed outline page

September 5 to December 7, 2000.
Tuesdays (room N2/D2, Stewart Biology Building) and
Thursdays (room 129, Education Building), both days 9:00--11:00 AM
(see map for location)

• Assignments: 5 X 2% each = 10%
• Midterm Examination = 30%
• Project = 15%
• Final Examination = 45%

Please note that both exams are open book.

• Moore D and McCabe G. Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, Third Edition. 1998. Freeman and Company.
  
• Armitage P and Berry G. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Third Edition. 1994. Blackwell Scientific Publications.
  
• Colton T. Statistics in Medicine. 1974. Little Brown.
  

Scientific hand calculator (with square root, log and exponential functions).

Differential and integral calculus.