Courses Taught by Emily Hector
BIOSTAT521: Applied Biostatistics
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Fall term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Emily Hector (Residential);
- Prerequisites: Calculus
- Undergraduates are allowed to enroll in this course.
- Description: Biostatistical analysis provides the means to identify and verify patterns in this data and to interpret the findings in a public health context. In this course, students will learn the basic steps in analyzing public health data, from initial study design to exploratory data analysis to inferential statistics. Specifically, we will cover descriptive statistics and graphical representations of univariate and multivariate data, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, t-tests, analysis of contingency tables, and simple and multiple linear regression.
- This course is required for the school-wide core curriculum
- Syllabus for BIOSTAT521
| Department | Program | Degree | Competency | Specific course(s) that allow assessment | NUTR | MS | Analyze quantitative data using biostatistics, informatics, computer-based programming and software, as appropriate | BIOSTAT521 |
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BIOSTAT830: Advanced Topics In Biostatistics
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Fall, Winter term(s) for residential students;
- 1-3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Zhenke Wu, Kelley Kidwell, Emily Hector, Donglin Zeng, (Residential);
- Prerequisites: course/instructor dependent
- Description: Advanced training in biostatistical methods primarily for doctoral students. Format will include lectures, readings, presentations and discussions in an area of special interest to students and faculty, such as stopping rules and interim analysis in clinical trials, conditional and unconditional inference and ancillarity, or nonparametric regression.
- This course is cross-listed with .
- Syllabus for BIOSTAT830
