PH 202 Biostatistics in Public Health

Prerequisite: PH 201 or Permission of Instructor

Introduction to basic principles and methods of biostatistics associated with public health practice. Descriptive and inferential statistics are covered including probability, descriptive statistics, inference for means/proportions and regression. Introduction to SPSS software for data entry and analysis. Possible topics associated with data analysis include epidemiology, health promotion and program evaluation. Emphasis is on application of statistical methods (versus calculations/formulas). This course meets the Core Curriculum Quantitative Literacy requirement.