Courses Taught by Xiang Zhou
BIOSTAT521: Applied Biostatistics
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Fall term(s) for residential students;
- 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Xiang Zhou (Residential);
- Prerequisites: Calculus
- 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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BIOSTAT810: Approaches to the Responsible Practice of Biostatistics
- Graduate level
- Residential
- Fall term(s) for residential students;
- 1 credit hour(s) for residential students;
- Instructor(s): Xiang Zhou (Residential);
- Prerequisites: None
- Description: This course will cover a series of topics that encompass Responsible Conduct of Research and Scholarship (RCRS) as defined by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as focus upon the written and oral communication skills necessary for effective collaboration with public health investigators.
- Syllabus for BIOSTAT810