PT 651 - Scientific Inquiry II

Prerequisites, PT 650, physical therapy major. This course is the third in the Scientific Inquiry series with a focus on statistics and use of computational methods to support physical therapists in a clinical environment. This course introduces power, effect size, descriptive and inferential statistics through lecture, review of current literature, and application of computer programs/platforms to ask clinically applicable questions. Students continue to develop critical reading of physical therapy literature and analysis of clinically applicable outcomes through a project using R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits