STA 224 Biostatistics

HND1 levelMedical & Health Sciences13 topics

STA 224 covers 13 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

Statistics in biology and medicine
Sources and types of biological and medical data
Problems of collecting biological and medical statistics
Variability in biomedical data
Vital statistics
Health statistics
Vital statistical indices
Uses of vital and health indices
Standardized rates
Direct standardization of rates
Indirect standardization of rates
Simple genetics
Bioassays

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Statistics in biology and medicine

Statistics in biology and medicine is the systematic use of numerical data to describe biological phenomena, test hypotheses, and inform clinical decisions. Mastering descriptive summaries, probability concepts, and inferential tests enables students to interpret research findings, design experiments, and evaluate medical evidence, all of which are central to the NUC, CCMAS, NBTE and NCCE exams.

What you get for STA 224

Every topic above, split into sessions and dated against your exam.
Practice questions per session, with answers that explain themselves.
Offline reading — the whole course is a few hundred KB on your phone.
An AI tutor that answers questions using this course's own material.

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