Department Courses -- Biostatistics

PBHL 520 BIOSTATISTICS (4 credit hours)

Introduces and applies the biostatistics tools and analytical base for population-based and community health assessment and evaluation. The focus is on providing a broad and basic understanding of biostatistics, with more advanced methods included as appropriate.

PBHL 620 INTERMEDIATE BIOSTATISTICS I (3 credit hours)

Intermediate Biostatistics is a required course for the Master of Public Health (MPH) Program of Study, Concentration in Epidemiology and in Biostatistics. It covers topics in epidemiological statistics, nonparametric statistics, consulting skills, choices of techniques, and data cleaning.

PBHL 621: INTERMEDIATE BIOSTATISTICS II (3 credits)

This course reinforces the basic biostatistics and data management skills acquired in the Intermediate Biostatistics I course. The main focus will be on model assumption checking and fit assessment; however specialized topics like modeling variable with more than two levels and repeated measures will be covered.

PBHL 622: INTRODUCTION TO BIOSTATISTICS THEORY (3 credits)

This is an introductory course in probability and the theory of biostatistics that include the introduction of the probability distributions, as well as focusing on underlying theoretical foundations.

PBHL 623: BIOSTATISTICS COMPUTING (3 credits)

Trains students in data management and graphical presentation skills so that they can independently manage small to intermediate sized research data bases. Statistical packages SAS and R will be covered.

PBHL 625: LONGITUDINAL DATA ANALYSIS (3 credits)

Covers statistical methods and software commonly used to analyze longitudinal or repeated measurements data that are often encountered in public health and biomedical studies.

PBHL 628: SURVIVAL ANALYSIS (3 credits)

This course will provide the students with different approaches of analysis of survival data. These techniques are particularly useful in cohort designs studies where the main outcome of interest is the onset of an event and the information time to event is available.

PBHL 629: DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL TRIALS (3 credits)

The purpose of this course is to cover the design and conduct of clinical trials. The course will also cover how to evaluate the scientific rigor of studies of clinical trials published in the scientific literature. Topics which will include power and sample size, study design, randomization methods, recruitment, missing data, ethical issues and statistical analysis methods.