PHS 750 - Biostatistics

This course will provide a foundation for scientific inquiry applicable to pharmaceutical science. Course content will provide instructional information on research design and the process of data acquisition and analysis. Applied statistics for pharmaceutical science and public health will be taught through both lecture and applied methods. Students will practice critically evaluating current research and preforming commonly used methods for both descriptive and inferential statistics. Data analysis will be performed using the statistical software Prism by GraphPad and the statistical programming language R. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits