This course provides the learners preamble knowledge to basic statistical principles and their application to qualitative and quantitative research studies in health sciences. It is aimed to develop understanding of rules governing use of descriptive and inferential statistics to enhance learners’ knowledge and skills to analyze, synthesize, infer and present given data.
By the end of this course the learners will be able to:
1. Define various statistical terms.
2. Explain the various statistical methods used in health sciences.
3. Analyze the use of statistics in some selected research studies.
4. Calculate statistical results for selected measures.
Introduction to Community and Public Health by |
Unit 1 Introduction to Biostatistics dentification of variable types and variable scales (nominal, ordinal, continuous). |
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Unit 2 Organizing and displaying data: tables; frequency distributions: bar graphs, histograms, frequency polygon; cumulative frequency. |
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Unit 3 Measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) and measures of dispersion (range, variance, standard deviation). |
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Unit 4 The Normal distribution. |
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Unit 5 The sampling distribution and the Central Limit Theorem. |
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Unit 6 Estimation. Unit 7 Unit 8 |
Biostatistics basic concepts and methodology for the health sciences by 
Principles of Biostatistics by 
Principles and Applications of Biostatistics by 
