STAT567 BIOSTATISTICS AND STATISTICAL GENETICS
| Course Code: |
2460567 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
Statistics |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
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| Offered Semester: |
Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
Introduction to use of statistical methodology in health related sciences. Types of health data. Odds ratio, relative risk. Prospective and retrospective study designs. Cohort, case-control, case-cohort, nested case-control studies. Analysis of survival data. Kaplan-Meier, life tables, Cox`s proportional hazards model. Analysis of case-control data. Unconditional, conditional, polytomous logistic regression. Introduction to genetic epidemiology. Testing Hardy-Weinberg law. Linkeage analysis. Analysis of microarray data. Association studies. Sample size and power. Recent developments in biostatistics and genetic epidemiology.
