BIOS 6332 - Experimental Design in Biostatistics (3 Credit Hours)

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0
This course introduces the student to experimental designs commonly used in public health and biomedical settings and the methods for analyzing them. It will introduce the student to the principles of designing an experiment (randomization, blocking and replication), completely randomized designs, factorial design, randomized block designs, nested designs, split-plot designs, crossover designs, Latin squares and analysis of the longitudinal designs, a fixed effect (Model I) single factor and multifactor experiment, a random effect (Model II) single factor and multifactor experiment, a mixed effect (Model III) multifactor experiment, and covariance model . Students will learn how to apply SAS procedures: PROC GLM, PROC MIXED, PROC GENMOD, PROC VARCOMP, PROC RSREG and PROC MULTTEST to public health and biomedical data and interpret the results of the analysis.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of “B” in BIOS 6331.
Restriction(s): NO Undergraduate Level Students