Why you should learn this course?    

Bio-statistics I is a 3-credit introductory level bio-statistics course designed for the health care professionals. This course will be dispensed using four modules which will cover topics on: data presentation techniques, describing data with numerical summary measures, probability and probability distributions, sampling distributions, statistical inferences from small and large samples, analysis of categorical data, simple correlation and simple linear regression analysis. Interact with statistician in statistical language quite comfortably.

 
Course objectives:

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to

• Demonstrate awareness of the problems involved in data collection and management.
• Explain and apply basic bio statistical techniques using computing programs to analyze and interpret data from studies on health.
• Effectively communicate statistical results to persons without specialized statistical training.
• Participate in drawing conclusions from data and present them as reports/papers.
• Understand and critically evaluate scientific literature on issues of public health and medicine.