BIOM -- Biometrics

BIOM 401 Biostatistics I (4) Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion/recitation per week. Prerequisite: BIOM 301. Descriptive statistics, probability models useful in biology, expectations, hypothesis testing, goodness of fit tests, central limit theorem, point and interval estimates, analysis of variance, regression, correlation, sampling, rank tests. Emphasis on the uses and the limitations of these methods in biology.

BIOM 405 Computer Applications in Biometrics (1) Two hours of laboratory per week. Corequisite:
BIOM 401. An introduction to computer usage in statistical analyses. Topics include file manipulation, formatting data, transformations, descriptive statistics, graphical displays of data, and several introductory inferential statistical procedures.

BIOM 602 Biostatistics II (4) Three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite: BIOM 401. Also offered as AGRO 804. The principles of experimental design and analysis of variance and covariance.

BIOM 603 Biostatistics III (3) Corequisite: BIOM 604. Prerequisite: BIOM 602; and BIOM 405 or equivalent. Applications of the general linear model to the life sciences.

BIOM 604 Linear Models Computer Laboratory (1) Two hours of laboratory per week. Corequisite: BIOM 603. Prerequisite: BIOM 405. Implementation of linear model analyses common to the life sciences.

BIOM 688 Topics in Biometrics (1-3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Advanced topics of current interest in various areas of biometrics. Credit assigned will depend on lecture and/or laboratory time scheduled and organization of the course.

BIOM 698 Special Problems in Biometrics (1-3) Prerequisite: permission of both department and instructor. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Individual study of a particular topic in biostatistics or biomathematics.

BIOM 699 Seminar in Biometrics (1)