University of Washington Biostatistics

BIOSTATISTICS 505: Biostatistics I, Instructor: Jim Hughes (jphughes at u.washington.edu) will be offered concurrently with the Autumn 2009 quarter (September 30-December 18) through UW Online Learning (under "Courses", then "Mathematics/Statistics" or follow link above).

Course description: Introduction to the principles and methods of data description and statistical inference using elementary parametric and nonparametric statistical methods. Real data sets are analyzed by students with an emphasis on biomedical applications. Statistical techniques covered include description of samples, comparison of two sample means and proportions, simple linear regression and correlation.