BIO.5012 Biostatistics
For upper level students, this course will cover quantitative methods used in biological investigation. Students will learn how statistics are used in biology, and how data are collected, summarized, and analyzed. Topics will include an introduction to descriptive statistics, basic probability, and differences between parametric and non-parametric tests. Various statistical methods will be covered, including ANOVA, regression analysis, correlation coefficients, as well as X-squared and frequency distributions.