TM5516 - Biostatistics for Public Health
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | College of Public Health, Medical & Vet Sciences |
Available to all postgraduate students in health science programs.
Biostatistics for public health is an introductory level course that covers the basic data analytical skills for analysing health data. Topics include: the elementary theory of probability; diagnostic tests; data exploration and presentation; theoretical and empirical distributions; measures of central tendency and dispersion; basic principles of statistical inference; principles of hypothesis tests; confidence intervals; common bivariate statistical tests; linear correlation and regression; and multiple linear regression. Some computer literacy is assumed (e.g, Windows, Word and Excel). Students will be introduced to the statistical software package, SPSS (IBM SPSS, Chicago, Illinois). Numeracy skills are essential for the successful completion of this subject.
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate understanding of the fundamental principles of biostatistics;
- recognise, manage, describe and summarise data using the appropriate graphical and numerical methods;
- identify the appropriate statistical inferential methods for health research questions;
- make the appropriate use of the statistical software SPSS;
- competently read and critically interpret statistics in a health publication and apply knowledge to real-world problems.
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Block, Study Period 5 | |
| Census Date 07-May-2015 | |
| Non-standard start/end 13-Apr-2015 to 19-Jun-2015 | |
| Face to face teaching 13-Apr-2015 to 24-Apr-2015 (2 week block) | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Iyke Emeto, Assoc. Professor Kerrianne Watt |
| Lecturers: | Dr Iyke Emeto, Mr Daniel Lindsay, Assoc. Professor Kerrianne Watt. |
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| Assessment: | quizzes or tests (50%); assignments (50%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Student must pass exam to pass subject |
| External, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 27-Aug-2015 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Iyke Emeto, Assoc. Professor Kerrianne Watt |
| Lecturers: | Dr Iyke Emeto, Mr Daniel Lindsay, Assoc. Professor Kerrianne Watt. |
| Method of Delivery: | Printed materials |
| Assessment: | quizzes or tests (50%); assignments (25%); assignment 2 (short answer questions, calculations, analyse data using spss) (25%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Student must pass exam to pass subject |
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