PA 620 - Introduction to Biostatistics Evidence-Based Medicine

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Basic concepts of descriptive and analytic epidemiology are presented and discussed. Topics covered include measures of disease frequency, probability, overview of epidemiologic study designs, sample size, hypothesis testing, tests of significance (p-values, confidence intervals, chi-square tests), measures of data quality and bias, multivariate models, survival analysis, and causality. Each of these concepts is taught with a focus on how to read and interpret the medical literature to allow a clinical career driven by evidence-based medicine. Prerequisite(s): PA 610, PA 611, PA 614, PA 615, PA 616, PA 617