EPI 5242 Biostatistics I

3 units
Epidemiology and Public Health
Faculty of Medicine
Building on the students' prior background in statistics, this course explores the use of mathematical models in statistical data analysis. Topics include analysis of categorical data, choice of linear vs non-linear models, estimation of parameters, testing of hypotheses by parametric and non-parametric methods, analysis of variance, linear and logistic regression models, introduction to survival analysis.

Components:

Discussion Group
Lecture

Requirements:

Permission of the Department is required.

Previously Offered Terms:

Fall

French Equivalent:

Organized

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Clear Expectations

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Learned a Lot

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Recommend

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Workload

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Fair Assessments

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