ABOUT THE COURSE:This course, "Biostatistics for Medical Science and Public Health" covers sensitivity-specificity and predictive values of medical tests, confidence intervals, medical vs. statistical significance, and chi-square, Student's t and ANOVA F-tests, including multiple comparisons.COURSE CONTENT:MODULE 1: Probability in Health and Medicine• Medical uncertainties and probability• Elementary laws of probability• Bayes' Rule• Sensitivity-specificity of a medical test• Positive and negative predictive value• Effect of prevalenceMODULE 2: Confidence Intervals• Sampling distributions and SEs• Large sample CI for one-sample mean and proportion• Exact CI for proportion and median• Large sample CI for differences between means and proportions• Sample size for estimationMODULE 3: Statistical vs. Medical Significance• P-value and level of significance• The concept of statistical power• Medical vs. statistical significance• Sample size for significance and power analysis• Chi-square test for simple situationsMODULE 4: Some Statistical Tests for Quantitative Data• Student's t-test for one-sample and two-sample situations• ANOVA for one-way and two-way tables• Tukey test and Bonferroni procedures for multiple comparisons• Test for medically significant gain and equivalence test