Biostatistics

At the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. define the following terms: Statistic, statistics and data; 2. enumerate the types of data and their classification; 3. illustrate measures of central tendency; 4. comprehend sample and sampling techniques; 5. distinguish descriptive and inferential statistics; 6. importance of vital statistics in environmental health; 7. describe different methods of data collection and presentation used in health research; 8. apply statistical packages used in EH research such as SPSS, epi-info, epidata, stacia; and 9. calculate Disease, Death Rates and many others.

Definition, types of data, classification and types of samples, sampling techniques data distribution descriptive and inferential statistics. Vital and health statistics. Use of computer based statistical packages – such as statistical package for social sciences (SPSS), epi-Info, epidata, strata, R, stacia, and many others. and many others Calculate rates: Attack rate, infection rate, contamination rate, Death rate, Crude Death Rate and many others.