Courses
BIOS 1500. Introduction to Biostatistics (3) (F,S)
P: MATH 1065 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Application of statistics to health field. Topics include organization and display of different types of data, elementary probability, and statistical inference for one- and two-sample problems.
BIOS 4900. Biostatistics Honors (3)
P: Consent of instructor. Special topics appropriate to the needs of the student, arranged with the approval of the instructor.
BIOS 5010. Epidemiology for Health Professionals (3)
P: BIOS 1500 or consent of instructor. Distribution of disease in human populations and factors that influence this distribution. Emphasis on leading causes of death, evaluating health research, and utilizing epidemiologic methods.
BIOS 7021. Biostatistics for Health Professionals I (3)
P: MATH 1065 or consent of instructor. Applies statistical methods to health sciences. Types, organization, and display of data; elementary probability; parametric and nonparametric techniques when dealing with one or two samples (matched and independent); one way ANOVA; and simple linear regression.
BIOS 7022. Biostatistics for Health Professionals II (3)
P: BIOS 7021 or consent of instructor. Continuation of BIOS 7021. Topics include ANOVA for multi-factor designs and analysis of single degree of freedom contrasts; randomized block and repeated measures designs; nonparametric methods for standard designs; multiple linear and logistic regression; and chi-square analysis of contingency tables.
BIOS 7501. Experimental Design (3)
P: BIOS 7021 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Experimental designs and their analysis. Topics include completely randomized, randomized block, Latin square, and split-unit designs; factorial treatment structures and repeated measures designs; multiple comparison procedures; tests of normality and homogeneity of variance; measures of effect size; and power considerations.
BIOS 7550. Applied Multivariate Analysis (3)
P: BIOS 7021 or equivalent or consent of instructor. Overview of the most commonly used multivariate statistical techniques. Topics include Hotelling’s T-square, MANOVA, discriminant analysis, cluster analysis, principal components, factor analysis, canonical correlation, multidimensional scaling, and correspondence analysis.
BIOS 7560. Nonparametric Statistical Methods (3)
P: BIOS 7021 or equivalent; or consent of instructor. Statistical methods requiring less restrictive assumptions (than parametric methods) about the form of the population distribution. General linear rank statistics, tests and estimation of location, dispersion, regression, and association in the nonparametric setting.
BIOS 7570. Introduction to Survival Analysis (3)
P: BIOS 7021 or equivalent; or consent of instructor. Statistical methods for time-to-event data, including censoring, hazard rates, estimation of survival curves, and methods to compare survival curves. Applications to clinical trials.
BIOS 7580. Categorical Data Analysis (3)
P: BIOS 7021 or equivalent; or consent of instructor. Introduction to the analysis of categorized data; rates, ratios, and proportions; relative risk and odds ratio; Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel procedure; life table methods; linear models for categorical data. Applications in demography, epidemiology, and medicine.
