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    This document outlines the course details for an Introduction to Biostatistics course, including the course code, times, venue, lecturer, and topics to be covered in each of the 15 lectures. The course will cover fundamental statistical concepts like data collection, presentation, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability theory, probability distributions, statistical inference, hypothesis testing, and correlation/regression. Key topics include sources of variation, scales of measurement, sampling techniques, graphical/tabular presentation, measures of location and dispersion, probability laws, normal distribution, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing errors/significance, and parametric/non-parametric tests.

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    DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MEDICAL STATISTICS

    FACULTY OF PUBLIC HEALTH


    COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
    UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN, IBADAN
    Course Name: Introduction to Biostatistics
    Course Code: PSM 201/401, EMS 300
    Day/ Time: Wednesday 12 – 2 pm, Thursday 1 – 2 pm
    Venue: Pharmacy Lecture theatre (300 Level Pharmacy & Med. Lab. Science; 200 Level
    Biochemistry, Human/Nutrition, Nursing and Physiology)
    Lecturer: Dr Afolabi, R. F.
    Lecture Topics
    Lecture 1 Introduction
     Role of statistics in human biology and medicine
     Variation in measurements
     Sources of variation (Biological, Instruments, Observer, environment etc)
     Types of variables/data
     Scale of measurement
    Lecture 2 Collection of data
     Sources of data, concept of raw data sets and their treatment
     Sampling techniques (Probability and Non probability sampling)
    Lecture 3 Tabular Presentation of data
     Frequency Distribution Tables (one-way, two-way)
    Lecture 4 Graphical Presentation of data
     Bar chart, histogram, pie chart, etc
    Lecture 5 Measures of location
     (Arithmetic mean, Geometric mean, Median, Mode, Quartiles)
    Lecture 6 Measures of Dispersion
     Range, Variance and Standard Deviation
    Lecture 7 Elements of probability theory
     Frequency concept
     Define experiments, trial outcomes and events
     Simple and compound events; Mutually exclusive events
     Basic laws of probability (Addition and Multiplication)
    Lecture 8 Discrete probability distribution
     Binomial distribution
     Poison distribution
    Lecture 9 Continuous probability distribution
     Normal distribution
    Lecture 10 Introduction to statistical inference
     Population – vs – sample, sampling distributions’
     Standard error of a mean, confidence interval
    Lecture 11 Theory of hypothesis testing
     Definition of Null and Alternative hypothesis
     Errors in decision making (Type 1 and 2 errors)
     Level of significance (P-value)
     Choice of appropriate test statistics based on the type of data and study design
     Parametric and Non-parametric tests (Definition and Examples)
    Lecture 12 Comparison of two mean values, Student t-test (independent and paired samples)
    Lecture 13 Test of association – the chi square test
    Lecture 14 Introduction to Correlation and Regression
    Lecture 15 Course Revision

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