HSC 3410 - Epidemiology for Health Sciences

Units: 4
Introduction to the quantitative techniques employed in modern epidemiology to design and interpret relevant studies. Overview of approaches and the statistical methods used to conduct epidemiological research. Familiarity with analytic processes commonly found in the health professions, including descriptive statistics, probability, probability distributions, point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing, chi-square, correlation and regression. Prerequisites: BIOL 1000 , STAT 1000 . Grading: A-F grading only.