Section outline

  • Course Teacher

    Fouzia Akter

    Assistant Professor 

    Department of Nutrition and Food Engineering

    Mobile Number:+880 1820-000810

    Email:fouzia@daffodilvarsity.edu.bd



    Requirements: Please follow these instructions throughout the course!!!

    • All the materials and tasks for this course have been provided in the BLC.
    • Please go through all these lessons one by one.
    • Please feel free to ask any questions on the discussion Forum after every lesson.
    • Try to read out all answers/comments/posts including yours.
    • Compare your thoughts with others and remark on your mistake.
    • All enrolled students should complete their activity in BLC for the accomplishment of this course.
    • Your activity in BLC will be highly appreciated. 
    • Develop your skill which will be helpful for your carrier development.

    • A.     Course Description

      Basic concepts of descriptive statistics, probability, statistical inference, regression, correlation analysis 

      B.     Course Objectives

      The objectives of this course are:

      • Understand basic concepts of descriptive statistics, mean, proportion median, standard deviation.
      • Draw simple graphs – bar charts, histogram, pie chart, line graph, box-plot.
      • Produce frequency tables.
      • Understand basic probability concepts.
      • Understand and use Binomial, Normal, and Students t distributions.
      • Be able to compute point and interval estimates of the population mean and proportion.
      • Understand and test hypotheses about the population mean and proportion.
      • Compute and test for the linear relationships between two variables.

    • Assessment Strategy

      • Quiz  15
      • Presentation  8
      • Assignment  5
      • Mid Term  25
      • Final Term  40
      • Class Attendance  7

    • Course Code: 0542-2109  Semester:Spring 2024        Course Title: Biostatistics

      Course Level: L2 T1                                                     Credit: 3 (Three)


    • Assessment Strategy

      • Quiz
      • Presentation
      • Assignment
      • Homework
      • Mid Term
      • Final Term

      Teaching Strategy

      • Presentation
      • Discussion
      • Question answer session
      • BLC