Academic Calendar 2023/2024 - Applied Health Statistics

MATH 1267  Applied Health Statistics

Prerequisites:

All NURS courses at the 2000 level in the on-campus BScN program with a minimum grade of 60% or SAT and enrolment in the on-campus BScN program or NURS-2517, NURS-2707, NURS-2047, NURS-2036, ACAD-1601 and enrolment in the on-campus RPN-BScN program.

Antirequisites:

MATH 1257

Restrictions:

This course is restricted to students in the on-campus BScN program or the on-campus RPN-BScN Program.

Hours:

3 hours

Credits:

3

Description:

Students develop statistical literacy and appropriate interpretation of health and nursing statistical information through exploration of statistical issues. Students consider study design, numerical and graphical data summaries, probability, sampling variability, confidence intervals, risk and hypothesis tests. They assess the validity of health-related statistics in popular and scientific media.