Announcement of Biostats VHM 801 course (e-mail 13/7-2016)

Announcement of the Biostats 801 course

Please find below an outline of the Biostats course VHM 801 for the
Fall Semester 2016. To (informally) register for the course, send an
e-mail with name and affiliation to hstryhn@upei.ca (Henrik Stryhn,
Dept. Health Management). You may also indicate if the suggested
schedule below is inconvenient - the schedule may be changed to
suit the participants better (conditional upon available rooms for
lectures and labs). For further information, contact the course
lecturer, or consult the course homepage with the most recent
and detailed information.

Henrik Stryhn,
Department of Health Management, AVC

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Biostats VHM 801 course - Fall Semester 2016

Time:  September 1 - December 1
- lectures: Thursdays 9-11am in AVC Learning Commons 278N; start Thursday 1/9, 9-11am
- labs: mostly Mondays 1-4pm (some Fridays 1-4pm) in the large computer lab (AVC 218S, room booking not confirmed); start Friday 2/9, 1-4pm

Textbook:  several textbook choices exist, see course homepage;
contact the instructor if you need additional information

Course contents (keywords):
- Data and Descriptive statistics
- Normal distribution
- Sampling and Design of experiments
- Probability and Random variables
- Binomial distribution
- Statistical inference: estimation, confidence intervals and tests
- Analysis of one and two continuous samples (t-tests)
- Analysis of one and two discrete samples
- Two-way tables
- One-way analysis of variance
- Two-way analysis of variance
- Simple linear regression and correlation
- Nonparametric methods
- Sample size calculations
- Introduction to Bayesian statistics
- Reporting of statistical analysis in papers

Examination:  final exam, optional mid-term exam, plus home assignments

Prerequisites:
- elementary mathematical calculus
- elementary computer applications

Lecturer:  Henrik Stryhn, Department of Health Management
- e-mail: hstryhn@upei.ca, phone 894-2847, room 412S

Course homepage:  http://people.upei.ca/hstryhn/vhm801