BTEC 350 - Statistics for Translational Life Science (3)

This course will introduce statistical methods used commonly by Translational Life Science Technology researchers. Some topics covered include organizing and presenting data with charts, histograms and plots, calculating means, standard deviations, and other statistical measures, statistical computing in biology using R, data collection and sampling, Bayesian statistics, developing statistical estimators hypothesis testing and likelihood ratio analysis. Application examples in epidemiology, genome wide association studies, and biological product quality control will illustrate basic and applied concepts.

Grading: Graded
Course ID: 102448
Consent: No Special Consent Required
Components: Lecture
Prerequisite: BIOL 302 and (MATH 150, MATH 151, or MATH 155) with a grade of ‘C’ or better.