PHS 605Quantitative Methods and Analysis
- Level
- Graduate
- Last listed
- Winter 2016
No longer offered. It’s in the archived Graduate Calendars from Fall 2006 (the oldest one online) to Winter 2016. The calendars after Winter 2016 aren’t on uwloo, so it may have been listed a little longer.
This course is an introduction to biostatistics for those planning a career in public health. Students will learn various biostatistical techniques, how to apply those techniques in the analysis of data from health studies, and how to interpret the results from those analyses. Topics include types of data, descriptive statistics, probability, distributions of data, exploratory data analysis, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, analysis of variance, and brief exposure to categorical data analysis and survival analysis. Emphasis will be on conceptual understanding of topics as well as carrying out various data analysis applications.
Notes, as last listed
SPHHS students only,
Antireq: HSG 605
Also offered Online
In today’s calendar
- HLTH 606B lists it in its requisites
Check it elsewhere
- Graduate Calendar, Winter 2016Its last archived entry
- Graduate Calendar archivesPast Graduate Calendars
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them