NUR 7100 Applied Biostatistics

This course focuses on the statistical skills (theoretical and experiential) required to develop a hypothesis and critically evaluate original and existing biomedical and healthcare research. Advanced quantitative statistical methods are studied to identify appropriate statistical techniques required for the analysis of data, interpretation of findings, and presentation of the results. The PASW/SPSS statistical software package will be utilized in this course. (Three hours of lecture and one hour of lab) Didactic: An introduction to parametric and noparamentric statistical methodology. This will include but not be limited to descriptive measures, confidence intervals, testing hypothesis, establishing statistical power, common non-parametric.and parametic methods that provides the foundation for DNP students to empirically demonstrate the underlying theory of their hypothesis. Lab: This lab complements the didactic course by implementing statistical methods and concepts with application to real world nursing hypothesis. Statistical software packages are introduced to provide the student hands on experience in accomplishing evaluative tasks related to the development of the hypothesis, identification of appropriate scales and methods of evaluation, and experience in applying statistical theory to actual data evaluation.
Credits: 3.0