311351 (v.1) Applied Research and Biostatistics 381

Area:	School of Public Health
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	10.0
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.
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
Prerequisite(s):	303168 (v.3) Epidemiology and Biostatistics 180 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.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
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
2009	Bentley Campus	Semester 1			Y
2009	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