Biostatistics for Credit reviews the procedures covered in the introductory courses Biostatistics 1 and Biostatistics 2, and covers in more detail the principal statistical concepts used in medical and health sciences.

This course will teach you the analysis of contingency table data. Topics include tests for independence, comparing proportions as well as chi-square, exact methods, and treatment of ordered data. Both 2-way and 3-way tables are covered.

This course will teach you the basic statistical principles in the design and analysis of randomized controlled trials.

This course will explain meta analysis and the methods that are used to assess multiple statistical studies on the same subject and draw conclusions.

This course will teach you advanced issues in meta-analysis and the statistical analyses that are used to synthesize summary data from a series of studies.

The course covers the fundamentals of the fixed and random effects models for meta-analysis, the assessment of heterogeneity, and evaluating bias.