Biostatistics

Week 1

Introduction to statistics basics and data collection.

Week 3

Describing data

Week 4

Estimating with uncertainty

Week 5

Probability

Week 6

Hypothesis testing and experimental design

Week 7

The binomial distribution

Week 8

No class

Week 9

Chi-square goodness of fit

Week 10

Numerical data and the normal distribution

Week 11

Comparing means with parametric tests

Week 12

Analysis of variance

Week 13

Comparing means with nonparametric tests

Week 14

Correlation and regression

Weeks 15 and 16

Project presentations

Special topics

In the news:

ChatGPT and biostatistics

Career skills:

Machine learning

Advanced stats:

Principal component analysis (PCA)

Stats in medicine:

Survival analysis