Course number and code: MCLS 616 Course name: Advanced Biostatistics Number of units: 2 Course Description: This course covers the basic and advanced principles of biostatistics. The course will focus in particular on specific tools for describing data sets graphically and numerically; methods for making inferences about population means and proportions from sample data; testing statistical hypotheses and applying them to group comparisons; issues of power and sample size in study designs; and different study designs.