RMAB DURE 2116: RESEARCH METHODS AND BIOSTATISTICS

The course covers Introduction to research methods; data collection, developing problem statements, research methodology concepts; hypothesis testing; data analysis; technology development concepts in biomedical engineering. It also covers descriptive statistics. Statistical experiments; Estimation, central limit theorem, standard errors, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, the t-distribution and F-distributions. Linear regression and correlation. Empirical curve fitting. Introduction to quality control. Other topics include; Sampling issues discussed include randomness, bias, sample size and Type I and II errors; level of significance, confidence intervals, and tests of significance for means, difference of means, variance and ratio of variances of large samples. Computer packages will be discussed.