Professor: John Lefante, Ph.D. lefante@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu

Teaching Assistant:  Raul Hernandez rhernan@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu

Office: SPHTM Texaco Room 1109

Office Phone: (504) 582-7874

Office Hours:  10-11 Wednesdays & Fridays

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is an introductory course in applied biostatistics. It covers both graphical and numerical methods of describing data sets, an introduction to probability and probability distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing.

COURSE TEXT: Daniel, Wayne W., Biostatistics: A Foundation for Analysis in the Health Sciences, 7th ed., Wiley Publishing Co., 1999.