EPID1000

EPID1000: Foundations of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

Health Sciences

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About this Unit

Foundations of Biostatistics and Epidemiology enables students to learn core skills in epidemiology and biostatistics. Students critically appraise public health and clinical epidemiological research literature and perform basic statistical analysis. Students will encounter basic statistical and graphical description and analysis of epidemiological and biomedical data with appropriate graphs, tables, and summary measures; statistical inference and statistical hypothesis testing applied to problems in health and clinical medicine using parametric and non-parametric tests; calculation of common epidemiological measures of disease frequency and association such as incidence rate, prevalence, attributable risk, risk ratios and odds ratio; role and significance of inferential statistics such as confidence intervals and probability values. Various epidemiological research designs and their strengths and limitations as well as threats to the internal validity; role of chance, bias and confounding are included.

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Unit Details

Credits25

Contact Hours2 Weekly

Result TypeGrade/Mark

AreaCurtin School of Population Health (1279)

Field of Education061311 Epidemiology

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Tuition Pattern

Online Lecture1 x 1 hour weekly
Tutorial1 x 1 hour weekly
Computer Laboratory1 x 1 hour weekly

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