Course Directors: Paul Christos, DrPH and Anjali Rajadhyaksha, PhD
This course is an introduction to the fundamental statistical issues in the design of biological/clinical and translational research studies. Its primary emphasis is on understanding the design and analytic methods of biological/medical research from a statistical perspective. Lectures and homework assignments will focus on the following: exploratory data analysis; basic concepts of statistical analysis; construction of hypothesis tests and confidence intervals; the application of statistical methods for analyzing data; the application of statistical models to relate a response variable to explanatory or descriptive (covariate) variables; and an introduction to meta-analysis.