School of Public Health

Division of Biostatistics

PubH 6414: Biostatistical Methods I Spring 2007

Course Description:

PubH 6414: Biostatistical Methods I is a 3 credit course.

Prereq: Public Health [MPH or certificate] student or [environmental health [MS or PhD] or health journalism MA or health infomatics [MS or PhD]] major or instructor consent.
Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for: PUBH 6450.
This course covers the following: Descriptive statistics, graphical methods. Use of Excel. Proportions, relative risk, odds ratios. Random sampling. Estimates of mean, medians, measures of variability. Normal distribution, z-tests, t-tests, chi-square tests. Confidence intervals. Correlation, simple linear regression. One-way ANOVA.
The course presupposes some basic knowledge of mathematics. To provide a review of math concepts used in this course a Math Refresher website has been created: http://cpheo.sph.umn.edu/cpheo/courses/math.html. The math Refresher Tutorial is optional.

Instructor: Cynthia Davey, MS
davey002@umn.edu.
612-624-7656
A-454, Mayo Building, Division of Biostatistics

Class Times
Tuesday & Thursday 4:40 pm.-5:55 pm.

Classroom
Mayo A-110

  • Course Information

  • Syllabus: Weekly Schedule

  • Lecture Notes

  • Excel Examples

  • Homework Assignments

  • Excel Exams

    • GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING FOR PubH 6414 (EXCEL)

  • Introduction to Excel Module (module1.xls)

  • Entering, Saving and Editing Information (excel1.pdf)

  • Formulas and Functions (excel2.pdf)

  • Biostatistics Home Page

    Web address of this page: http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~cynthiad/PH6414DESC.html

    Most recent update: May 23, 2007