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MPH 703: Biostatistics 3 Credits

Instuctor: B E Owusu (PhD)


Contact: 0244389946
Email: [email protected]

Course Description
The expected competencies that students are expected to acquire include collecting,
analyzing and interpreting data on public health issues. Practical problems associated
with analysis and use of routine data, as well as the limitations of qualitative data
analysis in health services management, would be examined and discussed.

Objectives
By the end of the course, students should be able to:

• describe the roles biostatistics serves in the discipline of Public Health


• describe basic concepts of probability, random variation and commonly used
statistical probability distributions.
• describe preferred methodological alternatives to commonly used statistical
methods when assumptions are not met.
• identify different measurement scales and the implications for the selection of
statistical methods to be used based on these scales.
• apply descriptive techniques commonly used to summarize /public health data.
• apply common statistical methods for inference.
• apply descriptive and inferential methodologies according to the type of study
design for answering research questions.
• apply basic informatics techniques with vital statistics and /public health records in
the description of health and characteristics and in health research and evaluation

Content:
• The role of statistics.
• Types of data: qualitative, continuous, discrete, qualitative, ordinal, nominal.
• Summarizing and presenting data: frequency table, frequency polygons,
histograms, frequency curves, bar graph, pie chart, scatter plot and box plot.
• Descriptive statistics; measures of location (mean, median, mode; measures of
dispersion; range, quartile range, standard deviation, variance)
• Population parameters and sample statistics: mean, standard deviation, and
proportion. Sample size determination, sampling distribution of population mean the
central limit theorem, from population to sample, standard error of the mean.
• Basic principles: Concepts of probability; normal distribution, binomial
distribution, Poisson distribution, Bayes theorem.
• Data analysis: confidence limits and confidence intervals, hypothesis testing;
statistical tests; z-score, student T-test, ANOVA, chi-square test, odds-ratio and relative
risk.
Assessment 100%
Class Assignments 30%
Quize 10
Exams 60%

Mode of delivery:
This course will be taught by using 2-hour lecture session and 1-hour tutorial session

Reading Materials
Alder, S. & Gren, L. (2013). Statistical laboratory manual. 2nd Edition, self-published.
Glaser, A. N. (2013). High-yield biostatistics, epidemiology, and public health (High-
Yield Series). (4th Edition). Philadelphia: LWW Publishers
Pagano, M. & Gauvreau, K. (2018). Principles of biostatics. (2 nd Edition). Boca Raton,
Florida: Chapman and Hall/CRC Press.
Pagano, M. & Gauvreau, M. (2000). Principles of biostatistics. (2nd Edition). California:
Duxbury Press
Rosner, B. (2015). Fundamentals of biostatistics. (8th Edition). Stamford, CT: Cengage
Learning.
Sullivan, L.M. (2017). Essentials of biostatistics in public health (Essential Public
Health). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers
Triola, M. M., Triola, F. M., et al (2017). Biostatistics for biological and health sciences.
(2nd Edition). London, UK: Pearson.
White, S. (2019). Basic and clinical biostatistics. (5th Edition). Boston, MA: McGraw-
Hill Education/Medical.

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