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Now Available! Posted 9/19/2023
Week #3: September 18-22, 2023
Unit 3 - Introduction to Nonparametrics
THIS WEEK

Welcome to BIOSTATS 640, Intermediate Biostatistics!
Fall 2023
Instructor: Carol Bigelow

Introduction. BIOSTATS 640 is the second of a two-semester sequence of introductory biostatistics.  The overall goal is statistical literacy and skills in selected, basic, analyses of biological and health data.  Topics include:  review of introductory biostatistics, selected discrete distributions, introduction to nonparametric tests, analysis of epidemiological tables, single and multiple predictor normal theory regression, logistic regression and introduction to survival analysis.  

Software.  I will be providing instruction in the use of R. No prior experience with R is required and you will not be required to use R on any examination.  In doing you work, you may use any software you like (e.g., SAS, Stata, Minitab, SPSS, etc.)  

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