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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

311351 (v.1) Applied Research and Biostatistics 381

Note

Tutition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: School of Public Health
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 6.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 304661 (v.1) Environmental Health Applied Research 384 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 303168 (v.3) Epidemiology and Biostatistics 180 or any previous version
OR
311440 (v.1) Epidemiology 286 or any previous version
OR
303091 (v.3) Epidemiology 186 or any previous version
Syllabus: The concepts of research methodology and experimental designs. Review of descriptive statistics; concepts of hypothesis testing; estimation and confidence intervals; parametric and non-parametric statistical analysis; correlation coefficients; statistical quality control and use of statistical software. Research methodology; validity and reliability; literature review; generation of research hypothesis; design of experiments; analysis and evaluation of results; preparation of research proposals; report writing, time and data management.
Field of Education: 061399 Public Health not elsewhere classified
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1     Y    

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External