TM5516:03
Biostatistics for Public Health
Townsville
First or second semester.
This subject introduces students to biostatistics as applied to Public Health. Topics covered include basic probability theory, diagnostic tests, theoretical and empirical distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion, graphical display, introduction to SPSS (statistical software), principle of statistical testing, common bivariate statistical tests, multiple testing, sample size determination, survival analysis and a short introduction to multivariate techniques.
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