STAT567 BIOSTATISTICS AND STATISTICAL GENETICS
| Course Code: | 2460567 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Statistics |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. VİLDA PURUTÇUOĞLU |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
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.