309585 (v.1) Epidemiology and Biostatistics 481

Area:	School of Public Health
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	4.0
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 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	300380 (v.3) Bachelor of Science (Health Sciences) (Honours) or any previous version OR 173609 (v.3) Bachelor of Science (Nursing) (Honours) or any previous version
Syllabus:	Introduction to the scientific method within an epidemiological framework. Association and causation, observational and experimental study designs, application of ethical principles to research questions, measurement issues: reliability and validity of data, issues of sampling statistical inference, errors and hypothesis testing, power and sample size calculation. Overview of descriptive statistics, data types and statistical distributions, estimation and confidence intervals, and inferential statistical tests.
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Field of Education:	060100 Medical Studies (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Not Categorised *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
2010	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