F23 Course advertisement NUR 692: Applied Statistics in Healthcare 

 

NUR 692: Applied Statistics in Healthcare Mondays 9:30-12:20pm

 

Credits: 3

 

Course Description:

This course surveys statistical methods within the context of healthcare research applications. Emphasis is placed on gaining an intuition for methodological purpose, basic application, and interpretation. Methods covered include descriptive statistics, probability distributions, hypothesis testing, chi-square test, parametric and non-parametric means testing, ANOVA, linear regression, logistic regression, survival analysis, bootstrapping, mixed models, principal components analysis, clustering, and power analysis. Additional topics covered if time permits. Familiarity with basic probability and statistical methods at the undergraduate level is assumed. Lectures and lab will occur in a single period using SPSS software. Assignments follow from methods covered in lecture and lab.

 

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