/*** This is a non-synchronous online course taught in English. ***/

Course: Video will be uploaded to NTU COOL in every Thursday afternoon (starting from Sep 17).

Office Hour: Should you have any question, you may come to Room 214 (2nd floor, No. 17, Xu-Zhou Road, Taipei) in every Monday 2 pm – 3 pm, and get advice from TA (starting from Sep 21).

If you are considering to take the course [Computing in Epidemiology and Biostatistics], please provide your “NTU e-mail address” to r08849007@ntu.edu.tw . We will open a temporary account (valid before Sep. 27) for you to access the course video. To be formally enrolled in this course, you still need to apply from the school system.


In most Biostatistics courses, lecturers usually introduce theoretical models, and then use statistical software (such as SAS and R) to analyze the data. However, there is a black box between these two parts. To fill in this gap, we will teach the numerical computation process involved in statistical models. Students will learn matrix operations, numerical analyses, Monte-Carlo simulations, etc. We will teach how to construct a log-likelihood function according to a statistical distribution, how to obtain maximum likelihood estimates for a logistic regression and a Poisson regression, how to build exact confidence intervals, and how to design Monte-Carlo simulations for a research topic, etc.