TV5030:03
Biometrics 1
Townsville
7 computer-based interactive multimedia units, 13 tutorials. Second semester.
Available to graduate students.
Staff: Dr L Fitzpatrick.
This subject examines a variety of statistical procedures common to the biomedical sciences. Topics include exploratory and descriptive data analysis using a PC based software package, probability, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing and linear models.
Learning Objectives:
- understand the role and importance of empirical methods in biomedical science;
- understand basic statistical concepts such as probability, sampling distributions and inference;
- be able to apply basic exploratory and inferential statistical methods to biomedical data using statistical software.
Assessment by tutorials (10%) and seven written assignments (90%).
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