This is the website for BIOSC 1120 - BIOSTATISTICS, taught at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Biological Sciences.
Biostatistics is the application of statistical principals to the design and analysis of biological studies. This course covers the methods, software, theory, and philosophy used in contemporary biostatistics. Examples will be drawn from across biological disciplines, including ecology, physiology, genomics cell, and molecular biology. Topics covered include basic data science and visualization, hypothesis testing and model building, analysis of variance (ANOVA), linear regression, multivariate statistics, power analysis, and experimental design. Emphasis is placed on actively using the software R to apply these methods to real biological data.
Class Number: 30894