(web-based and classroom instruction)
3 semester credit hours/meets part of research informatics competencies
This course provides the student the opportunity to develop essential competencies in the measurement, design, analysis, interpretation and critical evaluation of health, information, and behavioral science research and evaluation studies. Students will have the opportunity to learn and apply the most important and most frequently used statistical measures and methods, as well as critically evaluate their appropriate use. Topics include the study of frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, variance, hypothesis testing, correlation and both parametric and non-parametric inferential methods including t-tests, analysis of variance, chi-square, Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney, and Wilcoxon tests of significance, as well as tests of measures of association.