Demonstrate data literacy skills by exploring data to describe and summarize common types of variables using graphs and summary statistics

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Course Objectives:

1. Understand the role of Biostatistics in public health

2. Understand the parts of the statistical process such as the basic concepts of probability, random variation and commonly used probability distributions.

3. Demonstrate data literacy skills by exploring data to describe and summarize common types of variables (e.g. continuous, discrete, categorical) using graphs and summary statistics

4. Design forms to display collected data

Course Description: The purpose of this course is to introduce health care management students to the procedures associated with statistics in healthcare. This course will provide students with comprehensive introduction to basic statistical concepts used in public health. Students will be presented a variety of techniques to develop an awareness of how to properly manage data to answer public health research questions.

Course Objectives:

1. Understand the role of Biostatistics in public health

2. Understand the parts of the statistical process such as the basic concepts of probability, random variation and commonly used probability distributions.

3. Demonstrate data literacy skills by exploring data to describe and summarize common types of variables (e.g. continuous, discrete, categorical) using graphs and summary statistics

4. Design forms to display collected data

Textbooks:

Quirks, T. J. & Cummings, S. M. (2016). Excel 201 for Health Services Management Statistics: A Guide for Solving Problems, Excel for Statistics. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40066

McFederies, P. (2016). Teach Yourself Visually: Excel 2016. Indianapolis, IN: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Harvey, G. (2016). Microsoft Excel 2016 for dummies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2

Participation: It is expected students will have a basic understanding of Microsoft Excel. As a result of this being an online lab course, it is imperative that students complete all excel assignments in a timely fashion.

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Health Care Biostatistics Discussion Board: For the health care biostatistics discussion board forum, students will be required to interact with other classmates about the statistical concepts and procedures. More details regarding the discussion boards will be provided later.

Examinations: There will be one examination which will cover the material being covered in the course such as assigned readings and information from the excel spreadsheets.

Evaluation: Activity % of Grade
Practice Tests 10%
Excel Assign 40%
Examinations 50%