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Bio Stat — 6-topic bundle

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Course Syllabus

  1. Foundations of Biostatistics: Data and Variables
  2. Data Collection and Organization
  3. Descriptive Statistics: Summarizing Categorical Data
  4. Descriptive Statistics: Summarizing Quantitative Data
  5. Introduction to Probability and Sampling
  6. Inferential Statistics: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing Foundations

Study Notes

Foundations of Biostatistics: Data and Variables

When you're doing biostatistics, you're constantly dealing with data. Data is just a collection of observations. For example, if you measure the height of 10 people, those 10 measurements are your data. A variable is a characteristic that can take on different values. In our height example, "height" is the variable.

Understanding the type of variable you have is super important because it determines what you can do with it statistically. There are two main categories: quantitative and qualitative.

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