Biostatistics: Course Outline (419-IB)
Biostatistics is the application of statistical principles to questions and problems in medicine, public health or biology. One can imagine that it might be of interest to characterize a given population
Course Outline
1. Description of statistics
Descriptive statistics
- What is statistics? importance of statistics
- What is biostatistics? application of statistics in biological and pharmaceutical sciences
- How samples are selected
2. Organizing and displaying data
- Vriables
- Quantitative and qualitative variables
- Univariate data
- Bivariate data
- Random variables
- Frequency table
- Diagrams
- Pictograms
- Simple bar charts
- Multiple bar charts
- Histograms
3. Summarizing data and variation
- The mean
- The median
- The Mode
- The mean deviation
- The variance and standard deviation
- Coefficient of variation
4. Curve fitting
- Fitting a straight line
- Fitting of parabolic or high degree curve
5. Probability
- Definitions
- Probability rules
- Probability distributions
6. Simple regression and correlation
- Introduction
- Simple linear regression model
- Correlation co-efficient
7. Test of hypothesis and significance
- Statistical hypothesis
- Level of significance
- Test of significance
- Confidence intervals
- Test involving binomial and normal distributions
8. Student “T”, “F” and chi -square distributions
- Test of significance based on ―t‖
- ―F‖and chi-Square distributions
9. Analysis of variance
- One-way classification
- Two-way classification
- Partitioning of sum of squares and degrees of freedom
- Multiple compression tests such as LSD
- The analysis of variance models
10. Statistical package
- An understanding of data analysis by using different statistical tests using various
Statistical software’s like SPSS
- Minitab
- Statistica etc
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Biostatistics basic concepts and methodology for the health sciences by
Call Number: 570.15195 DANISBN: 9788126521494Publication Date: 2010
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