Interested beginners are invited to register for a 4-week course on
Introduction to Biostatistics. This course will be offered online at from
July 10 to August 7, 2009. Participants can ask questions and exchange
comments with the instructor
via a private discussion board throughout the period. The course will
require about 15 hours per week and there are no set hours when you must be
online.
This course covers the principal statistical concepts as applied to medical
and health sciences. Basic methods required for statistical analysis of
medical data are reviewed. Important concepts are discussed in detail,
including sensitivity-specificity, relative risk and odds ratios, confidence
intervals, P-value and power, tests of equivalence, medical vs. statistical
significance, ANOVA, and Tukey and Bonferroni adjustments for multiple
comparisons. The focus in this course is on medical and health applications
rather than on method development.
Instructor: Dr. A. Indrayan, author of Medical Biostatistics, 2nd
Ed.(Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2008), and several other books. He frequently
provides biostatistical consultation to the World Health Organization, the
World Bank and UNAIDS.
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/biostatistics/
~Abhaya Indrayan
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