Biostatistics

BIOSTATISTICS

Syllabus for:

MSc students in Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine

Textbook:

Bernard Rosner, “Fundamentals of biostatistics”, sixth edition, Thomson, 2006

Tutors:

Dr Saddig D. Jastaniah – Chairman, Medical Physics Division

Contents:

·        Descriptive Statistics (Ch 2)

o       Sections 2.1 to 2.6

·        Probability (Ch 3)

o       Sections 3.1 to 3.6

o       Section 3.10

·        Continuous Probability Distribution (Ch 5)

o       Sections 5.3 to 5.4

o       Section 5.6

·        Estimation (Ch 6)

o       Sections 6.1 to 6.6

·        Hypothesis Testing: One-Sample Inference (Ch 7)

o       Sections 7.3 to7.5

·        Regression and Correlation Methods (Ch 11)

o       Sections 11.2 to 11.4

o       Sections 11.6 to 11.7