PSYC 435 - Biostatistics and Epidemiology

3 hours
This course provides an overview of the basic methodological and statistical principles in public health, medical, and psychiatric research. This includes a primary focus on 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. This will involve developing greater familiarity with exact tests for binary outcomes, logistic regression, 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 and psychology major, but does not count toward the mathematics major. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 331, MATH 241, and either PSYC 332 or MATH 330. UG