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INTRODUCTION TO BIOSTATISTICS

BMI/STAT 541
Course Description

Course designed for the biomedical researcher. Topics include: descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, estimation, confidence intervals, t-tests, chi-squared tests, analysis of variance, linear regression, correlation, nonparametric tests, survival analysis and odds ratio. Biomedical applications used for each topic.

Prerequisties

Graduate/professional standing. Not open to students with credit for STAT 511 or BMI/POPHLTH 551

Satisfies
Credits

3

Offered

Fall

Grade Point Average
3.66

3.15% from Historical

Completion Rate
97.47%

-0.55% from Historical

A Rate
74.68%

21.08% from Historical

Class Size
79

24.77% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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