Announcement of Biostats VHM 801 course (e-mail 23/11-2017)

Announcement of the Biostats 801 course

The VHM 801 course will extraordinarily be offered in the Winter 
Semester of 2018 (it usually runs in the fall semester). This is 
done to accommodate students who had planned on taking the course 
in the Fall Semester of 2017, when the course was not offered due 
to the instructor's sabbatical leave. In turn this means that 
VHM 802, Advanced Veterinary Biostatistics, will not be offered 
in the Winter Semester of 2018.

Please find below an outline of VHM 801 for the Winter Semester 2018. 
To (informally) register for the course, send an e-mail with name 
and affiliation to hstryhn@upei.ca (Henrik Stryhn, Dept. Health 
Management). You may also indicate if the suggested schedule below 
is inconvenient - the schedule may be changed to suit the participants 
better (conditional upon available rooms for lectures and labs). 
For further information, contact the course lecturer, or consult 
the course homepage with the most recent and detailed information.

Henrik Stryhn,
Department of Health Management, AVC

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Biostats VHM 801 course - Winter Semester 2018

Time: January 3 - April 13
- lectures: Wednesdays 9-11am in AVC Learning Commons 278N; start 
Wednesday 3/1, 9-11am
- labs: mostly Mondays 1-4pm (some Thursdays and Fridays 1-4pm) in 
the large computer lab (AVC 218S, room booking not confirmed); 
start Monday 8/1, 1-4pm

Textbook: several textbook choices exist, see course homepage;
contact the instructor if you need additional information

Course contents (keywords):
- Data and Descriptive statistics
- Normal distribution
- Sampling and Design of experiments
- Probability and Random variables
- Binomial distribution
- Statistical inference: estimation, confidence intervals and tests
- Analysis of one and two continuous samples (t-tests)
- Analysis of one and two discrete samples
- Two-way tables
- One-way analysis of variance
- Two-way analysis of variance
- Simple linear regression and correlation
- Nonparametric methods
- Sample size calculations
- Introduction to Bayesian statistics
- Reporting of statistical analysis in papers

Examination: final exam, optional mid-term exam, plus home assignments

Prerequisites:
- elementary mathematical calculus
- elementary computer applications

Lecturer: Henrik Stryhn, Department of Health Management
- e-mail: hstryhn@upei.ca, phone 894-2847, room 412S

Course homepage: http://people.upei.ca/hstryhn/vhm801