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2018-2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

NURSNG 770 - Biostatistics II: Advanced Statistical Methods in Healthcare Research

3 Credit(s)

Description:
This is the second course in a two-semester Biostatistics sequence. This course covers several advanced methods of statistical analysis that are most often used in Healthcare research, including multiple linear regression, logistic regression, log-linear (Poisson) regression, Cox proportional hazards regression, and longitudinal data analysis. This course also discusses the methods and techniques in assessing the presenting confounding and interaction effects, and handling missing values. The primary purpose of this course is to help students gain understanding of the advanced statistical methods and use these concepts to critique literature in the field of clinical and population based research.

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