Learning Outcome

Upon completion of the course, students should have acquired an understanding of the following broad topics:

• Describe descriptive techniques commonly used to summarise biological data
• Describe descriptive and inferential methodologies according to the type of study design for answering a particular research question
• Describe common statistical methods for inference
• Develop written and oral presentations based on statistical analyses for both public health professionals and educated lay audiences
• Use statistical software to analyse health related data and interpret results of statistical analyses
• Capability to build statistical model and compare efficiency of models