TV5030:03
Biometrics
Townsville
7 computer-based interactive multimedia units, 13 tutorials. First semester.
Available to graduate students.
Staff: Assoc. Professor 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%).