BHS 220 Introduction to Health Statistics
This course provides a foundation of statistical methods and principles necessary to guide students through more advanced quantitative study of research topics across health sciences. The principles examined are powerful in identifying patterns and deriving meaningful conclusions from information. Elementary probability theory upon which inferential statistics is based is explored, as are applying descriptive statistics to visually display data and calculating measures of central tendency and dispersion. Generating hypotheses and conducting tests to draw statistical inference about populations is discussed.