生物統計學課程大綱：

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter outline
General objectives
Biostatistics development
Descriptive vs inferential
Populations and samples
Frequency distribution

Chapter 2 Types of biological data
Data on a nominal scale
Data on an ordinal scale
Data on an interval scale
Data on a ratio scale

Chapter 3 Description statistics
Measure of central tendency
- arithmetic mean
- median
- median
- mode
- quartile
- other—geometric mean
Measure of dispersion
- range
- mean deviation
- variance
- standard deviation
- coefficient of variation

Chapter 4 The normal distribution
Introduction—symmetry and kurtosis
Proportions of a normal distribution
The distribution of means

Chapter 5 The sampling distribution of the sample mean
Sampling error
The mean and standard deviation of sample mean
The sampling distribution of the sample mean
The sampling distribution of the difference between two
sample means for one population mean
Chapter 6 Hypothesis test for one population mean
The nature of hypothesis testing
Terms, errors and hypothesis
- type one error
- type two error
Power
One-tailed vs two-tailed test
Confidence limit for the population mean
Confidence limit for the population variance

Chapter 7 Group comparison t-test and paired t-test
Group comparison t-test
Confidence limits for means