PATH 524
Biostatistics

Credit: 4 hours.


Application of statistical methods to epidemiology, clinical and diagnostic medicine, and laboratory biomedical experiments. Topics include descriptive statistics and graphics, reliability, sample size estimation, contingency table analysis, analysis of group differences, survival analysis, correlation and linear regression. Emphasizes use of computerized statistical software in biomedical data analysis. Same as CHLH 590, and IB 592. 4 graduate or professional hours. Students may not receive credit for both PATH 591 and CPSC 440 or IB 488 or EDSY 480.