TM5522:03
Advanced Biostatistics for Public Health
Townsville
HECS Band 2
Block mode Semester 2.
Staff: Dr R Muller, Dr P Buttner.
This subject introduces students to the practical side of advanced biostatistics. Basic principles of biostatistics (see TM5516) will be shortly revised and then extended to multivariate techniques including multiple regression, logistic regression, analysis of variance and cox models. Principles of data analysis will be presented and exercised with the statistical software package SPSS. Actual databases deliver the means of exercising. Half the course is lectures, the other half is ‘hands on’ exercises with SPSS.
The successful student will become experienced in computer based data handling, data cleaning, transforming and bivariate testing. The student will have a basic practical understanding of some of the main multivariate techniques.
Assessment by assignments.