PH 102Biostatistics in Public Health
Fundamentals of biostatistics and basic methods for analysis of continuous and binary outcomes for one, two, or several groups. Includes: summarizing and displaying data; probability; statistical distributions; central limit theorem, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing; comparing means of continuous variables between two groups; comparing proportions between two groups; simple and multiple linear regression. Hands-on data analysis using software and statistical applications in public health. Must be taken for a letter grade to be applied to the public health major. Renumbered from FMPH 102. Students may not receive credit for FMPH 102 and PH 102.
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “PH 40 or FMPH 40 and PSYC 60, HDS 60, MATH 11, or COGS 14B, and upper-division standing.”
Where it sits in degree plans
Suggested plans most often put it in Year 3 · Fall (3 programs).
Required in (3)
- PblHlth w/Con Medicine Sci
- Public Health (B.S.)
- Public Health with Concentration in Biostatistics (B.S.)