Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Center for Health Policy/Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research Stanford University


CHP/PCOR Courses


Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Epidemiology

Course number(s): HRP 259
Offered Fall quarter in the 2005-2006 academic year

Instructors
Kristin Cobb

Topics: random variables, expectation, variance, probability distributions, the central limit theorem, sampling theory, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals. Correlation, regression, analysis of variance, and nonparametric tests. Introduction to least squares and maximum likelihood estimation. Emphasis is on medical applications.

Level
Graduate and undergraduate

Units
4

Department
Department of Health, Research and Policy
Stanford School of Medicine