Starting in 2010, we will offer a two-course online sequence in
Biostatistics, starting with Biostatistics 1 on January 29. Biostatistics 2
will follow on March 12. Each is 4 weeks, and is completely online.
“Biostatistics 1” covers the standard statistical concepts from the medical
and health sciences perspective (confidence intervals, significance tests,
sample size calculations, Bonferroni adjustments for multiple comparisons).
Topics relevant specifically to this field are discussed in detail,
including sensitivity-specificity, predictivity, exact confidence intervals
in some cases, and testing for equivalence. The focus in this course is on
medical and health applications rather than on method development.
“Biostatistics 2” covers the basic principles of design for clinical trials,
ROC curves, relative risk, odds ratios, and introductory survival analysis.
The course participants should have access to a standard statistical
software package for use during the course.
This course offers the option of university credit via the American Council
on Education's "Credit Recommendation Service," details at
http://www.statistics.com/credit/academic_credit.php
Course registration and details at
http://www.statistics.com/ourcourses/biostat1/
~A. Indrayan
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