Aug 31, 2025  
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog

HPH 560 - Applied Biostatistics


Students learn to formulate a scientific question in terms of a statistical model, leading to objective and quantitative answers.  Topics may include analysis of variance, regression, including details of data-analytic techniques and implications for study design, measures of association, 2x2 tables, stratification, matched pairs, logistic regression, model building, analysis of rates, and survival data analysis using proportional hazards models.  The course stresses applications in epidemiology, and other areas of public health research.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): Admission to Graduate Public Health Program or Department Consent; HPH 507  and HPH 559 .

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)