Announcement of Biostats VHM 801 course (e-mail 23/7-2018)

Announcement of the Biostats 801 course

Please find below an outline of the Biostats course VHM 801 for the 
Fall Semester 2018. Despite that the course was also offered in the 
past winter semester, I expect there will be sufficient interest to 
run it again. If however there is very limited interest for the course 
in the fall semester of 2018, it may not be offered.

To (informally) register for the course, send an e-mail with name and 
affiliation to hstryhn@upei.ca (Henrik Stryhn, Dept. Health Management). 
You may also indicate if the suggested schedule below is inconvenient 
- the schedule may be changed to suit the participants better 
(conditional upon available rooms for lectures and labs). For further 
information, contact the course lecturer, or consult the course homepage 
with the most recent and detailed information.

Henrik Stryhn,
Department of Health Management, AVC

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Biostats VHM 801 course - Fall Semester 2018

Time:  August 30 - November 30
- lectures: Thursdays 9-11am in AVC Learning Commons 278N (280N on Nov 29); start Thursday 30/8, 9-11am
- labs: mostly Mondays 1-4pm (some Fridays 1-4pm) in the large computer lab (AVC 218S); start Friday 31/8, 1-4pm

Textbook:  several textbook choices exist, see course homepage;
contact the instructor if you need additional information

Course contents (keywords):
- Data and Descriptive statistics
- Normal distribution
- Sampling and Design of experiments
- Probability and Random variables
- Binomial distribution
- Statistical inference: estimation, confidence intervals and tests
- Analysis of one and two continuous samples (t-tests)
- Analysis of one and two discrete samples
- Two-way tables
- One-way analysis of variance
- Two-way analysis of variance
- Simple linear regression and correlation
- Nonparametric methods
- Sample size calculations
- Introduction to Bayesian statistics
- Reporting of statistical analysis in papers

Examination:  final exam, optional mid-term exam, plus home assignments

Prerequisites:
- elementary mathematical calculus
- elementary computer applications

Lecturer:  Henrik Stryhn, Department of Health Management
- e-mail: hstryhn@upei.ca, phone 894-2847, room 412S

Course homepage:  http://people.upei.ca/hstryhn/vhm801