MPH7107 Applied Biostatistics

This course is designed to enable students to understand and apply the basic concepts of statistics in epidemiological and public health research. Students should therefore be able to use statistical techniques to summarize, analyse, interpret and present data for public health use.   

Course aim

The aim of this course is to provide the student with the ability to select and use scientifically sound statistical techniques to summarize, analyse, interpret and present data for public health use.  

Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of course, the student should be able to:

• Describe the basic statistical concepts and relate them to applications in public health 
• Apply descriptive statistics in summarizing and presenting statistical data to those who need to use it to undertake appropriate public health interventions 
• Compare and contrast the different probability distributions and explain the situations in which they are applied in the process of statistical inference. 
• Apply point and interval estimates to test hypotheses about epidemiological associations so as to generalize sample parameters to populations. 
• Employ computers in the management of data, the search for information and the design of text documents