PSYC 435 - Introduction to Biostatistics and Epidemiology

3 hours
This course provides an introduction to the basic methodological and statistical principles in public health, bio-medical, and psychopathology research. This includes study of continuous and categorical outcomes in regression modeling as well as exposure to epidemiological research, which examines the determinants and distribution of disease and disorders in human populations. Specific applications will include prediction and modeling of medical and mental health outcomes across populations and social determinants of these outcomes. This will involve developing greater familiarity with exact tests for binary outcomes, logistic regression, factor analysis, and survival analysis, as well as epidemiological cohort and case-control studies. Study design, analysis, and interpretation of results will be emphasized across these domains. This course can count toward the statistics minor but does not count toward the mathematics major. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 331, MATH 241, and either PSYC 332, MATH 330, or ECON 342. UG