CS 624 - Biostatistics

Prerequisite, MATH 203, or equivalent. This course will provide an intermediate-level introduction to various statistical methods with emphasis on applications in Biology, Medicine, and Public Health. Main concepts such as sampling distributions, contingency tables, survival analysis, linear, logistic, and Poisson regressions will be studied from a more mathematically solid viewpoint. Examples and real datasets will be provided to clarify the concepts and underline connections with related topics and current research. Data analyses will be performed using the statistical software package R. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits