Module code | MBS 700 |
Qualification | Postgraduate |
Faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences |
Module content | The role of statistics and the data analysis process, collecting data sensibly, graphical methods for describing data, numerical methods for describing data, summarizing bivariate data, probability, random variables and probability distributions, sampling variability and sampling distributions, estimation using a single sample, hypothesis testing using a single sample, comparing two populations or treatments, the analysis of categorical data and goodness-of-fit tests, simple linear regression and correlation: inferential methods, multiple regression analysis, analysis of variance, nonparametric (distribution-free) statistical methods. This course is designed as a statistics building block for a non-statistics major postgraduate student at master's level. |
Module credits | 20.00 |
NQF Level | 08 |
Programmes |
BScHons in Cell Biology
BScHons in Chemical Pathology BScHons in Clinical Pharmacology BScHons in Haematology BScHons in Human Cell Biology BScHons in Human Histology BScHons in Human Physiology BScHons in Macro-anatomy BScHons in Medical Criminalistics BScHons in Medical Immunology BScHons in Medical Microbiology BScHons in Medical Nuclear Science BScHons in Medical Oncology BScHons in Medical Physics BScHons in Medical Virology BScHons in Neuro-anatomy BScHons in Physical Anthropology BScHons in Radiation Oncology BScHons in Reproductive Biology BScHons in Reproductive Biology option Andrology |
Contact time | 1 lecture per week |
Language of tuition | Module is presented in English |
Department | Statistics |
Period of presentation | Semester 1 |
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