NURS 671 Healthcare Biostatistics
This online graduate level statistics course utilizes Blackboard as an interface. It will provide students with skills in quantitative reasoning through the use of healthcare biostatistics. Students will use and apply descriptive and inferential statistical techniques to answer research questions in nursing and health sciences. The course will familiarize the student with basic concepts in biostatistics as well as the fundamentals of data management and analysis using advanced statistical software. This course meets the requirements for the prerequisite graduate level statistics course required for entry to the MSN/DNP/PhD programs in the School of Nursing.
Course Objectives:
1. Discuss the relationship of data to evidence/information in nursing and health sciences.
2. Classify data according to its level of measurement.
3. Discuss the principles of statistical inference.
4. Analyze and interpret descriptive and inferential statistics, including measures of central tendency and dispersion, differences in proportions, difference in means testing and regression techniques.
Cross Listed Courses
NURS 671 &
NURS 671D