Biostatistics

Course ID   MSC02

Semester   A’

Type   Compulsory

The course of Biostatistics vaims to present the most important statistical techniques for research design, collection, description and analysis of health science data as well as to familiarize students with statistical packages. 

Contents

Principles of Methodology Research in Health Science

Ratios, rate of change, indicators, diagnostic measures

Data organization and description

Principles of Probability theory

Probability distributions of random variables

Point estimators,confidence intervals

Hypothesis tests for quantitative and qualitative data

Correlation, analysis of variance, simple regression analysis

Multiple regression analysis

Logistic regression

Principal component analysis-Factor analysis

Cluster analysis