This course aims to provide students with fundamental epidemiologic concepts and study design, which will further be articulated with a broad overview of basic biostatistical methods to be used in public health. Students will be trained to read scientific literature to critically evaluate study designs and methods of data analysis. Students are expected to develop the ability of using appropriate study design and epidemiology measurements in conjunction with quantitative approaches in evidence-based public health.

This is an asynchronous online learning course which contains three-hour online course, in the online system NTU COOL, and two- to six-hour in-class discussion (office hour) monthly.

For the epidemiology part, students will be introduced to key concepts and principles of epidemiology, including various study designs, bias, confounding, and effect modification. For the biostatistics part, this is a fundamental course of basic biostatistics. We will focus on the statistical methodology and data analysis. The course will start with descriptive statistics. Next, students will learn the concepts and definitions of probability and distributions, as well as applications in statistics and in real world. Then, statistical inferences including estimation and hypothesis testing will be introduced. In the office hour, students can ask questions and clarify concepts of online video, and they will learn how to perform statistical analysis through R/EXCEL.