Certificate in Applied Biostatistics
- Lusaka, Zambia
- Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Certificate
DURATION
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: Texila American University offers a Certificate in Applied Biostatistics that teaches descriptive and inferential statistics for public health and medicine. It covers variables, graphical data presentation, central tendency and dispersion, probability and distributions, hypothesis testing (single and two means, proportions), analysis of variance, correlation and regression (linear, logistic, nonlinear), and principal component analysis for health data interpretation.
Career Outcomes: Potential career opportunities include biostatistician, data analyst, epidemiologist, clinical data manager, research associate and health informatics analyst. You'll apply statistical modeling, regression, PCA and data visualization in hospitals, research institutes, government health agencies and NGOs and clinical trials teams worldwide.
This course is designed to equip the student with advanced knowledge in the application of descriptive and inferential statistics in public health. The focus will be on need and uses of statistics in public health and medicine. Specific topics include, concept of the variables, graphical and diagrammatical presentations of various data, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, basic probability concepts and distribution, testing of hypothesis for single and two means and proportion, Analysis of variance. This course also emphasizes on the importance of correlation, correlation coefficient and regression (linear, logistic and other non nonlinear) in analysing public health data. The importance of data reduction and application of principal component analysis also included. This course will help students to develop advanced skills in analysing and interpreting data from Health, Allied Health, Public Health settings.
