Course Description:

The course "Biostatistics" (STAT-145) is about information; how it is obtained, how it is analyzed, and how it is interpreted.

The objective of the course is to learn:

(1) How to organize, summarize, and describe data.

(Descriptive Statistics)

(2) How to reach decisions about a large body of data by examine only a small part of the data.

(Inferential Statistics)
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Planned:

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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