stat 106 (BIOSTATISTICS )

Text Book:
Elementary Biostatistics with Applications from Saudi Arabia. by Nancy-A. E. Hasabelnaby.
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Biostatistics (1+1) credit-hours.
Beneficiaries: College of Medicine.
Descriptive statistics - Measure of location and dispersion - Elementary probability - Random variable and probability distribution - Central limit theorem and application.
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Topics:
- Introduction to Bio-Statistics, types of data and graphical representation.
- Descriptive statistics:
Measures of Central tendency- Mean , median, mode,
Measures of dispersion-Range, Standard deviation, coefficient of variation.
- Calculating measures from an ungrouped data.
- Approximating measures from grouped data.
- Basic probability, conditional probability, concept of independence.
- Some discrete probability distributions; cumulative probability distributions: Binomial, and Poisson -their means and variances.
- Continuous probability .
distributions: Normal distribution, Standard normal distribution.
- Statistical inference: interval estimation, testing hypothesis about single mean and single proportion.
 
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