MI5000 - Biomedical Epidemiology

Credit points:	03
Year:	2014
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	School of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences (pre 2015)

Available to graduate students. Pre-requisite for epidemiology course based Masters in Tropical Veterinary Science 75203. The subject includes a consideration of terms and methods used to describe the occurrence of disease; the concept and measurement of cause and effect; factors affecting validity and types of choice of diagnostic tests; the design and interpretation of clinical trials and economics of disease. Practical classes will be conducted on the application of biostatistical software which supports these topics.

Learning Outcomes

• be able to apply basic exploratory and inferential statistical methods to biomedical data that include confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, chi-square procedures, regression and correlation, t-test and analysis of variance;
• understand the differences and application of parametric and non-parametric tests.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

BM2001

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 27-Mar-2014
Coord/Lect:	Professor Bruce Gummow.
Contact hours:	36 hours lectures - multi-mode (including distance) based delivery 54 hours tutorials - multi-mode based tutorials and assessment
Assessment:	end of semester exam (60%); assignments (40%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.