NURS 665 Biostatistics
This course is designed for students in the social sciences, to introduce them to basic concepts and techniques of elementary statistics, both descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics include: the nature of data, uses and abuses of statistics, methods of sampling, summarizing data, pictures of data, counting techniques, measures of central tendency, measures of variation, measures of position, understanding probability, binomial and normal distributions, central limit theorem, confidence intervals, fundamentals of hypothesis testing for both one and two samples, ANOVA, linear regression, and a brief introduction to nonparametric statistics.