PHRD 4400: Pharmacy and Health Care III: Biostatistics (2 Credits)
This course is designed to introduce students to the quantitative methods most commonly used in applied clinical research and prepare them to interpret the results, and evaluate the appropriateness, of statistical analyses used in pharmacotherapy research studies. Content addressed includes the following areas: an overview of study designs in medical research, measurement, descriptive statistics and measures of risk, inferential statistics, hypothesis testing, and the use of common statistical techniques. More advanced methods (e.g., survival analysis, multivariate analysis, and meta-analysis) are introduced at a very basic level.