Biostatistics detailed syllabus for Biomedical Engineering (BME) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the BME students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Biomedical Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit BME 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-III scheme and its subjects refer to BME Professional Elective-III syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of biostatistics is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION
Introduction, Some basic concepts, Measurement and Measurement Scales, Simple random sample, Computers and medical data analysis, Introduction to probability, likelihood & odds, distribution variability.
Unit II
STATISTICAL PARAMETERS
Statistical parameters p-values, computation, level chi square test and distribution and hypothesis testing -single population proportion, difference between two population proportions, single population variance, ratio of two population variances and tests of goodness of fit, tests of independence, tests of homogeneity.
Unit III
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Unit IV
INTERPRETING DATA
Interpreting life tables clinical trials, epidemical reading and interpreting of epidemical studies, application in community health.
Unit V
ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE
META analysis for research activities, purpose and reading of META analysis, kind of data used for META analysis, completely randomized design, randomized complete block design, repeated measures design, factorial experiment.
Lab Component
Students need to use appropriate software tools to implement the following,
- Identify quantitative, ordinal, and categorical measurements from the data
- Construct and interpret stem plots and histograms,
- Construct and interpret frequency tables, calculate and interpret means, standard deviations, medians, and quartiles
- Calculate and interpret Normal probabilities and values.
- Calculate and interpret confidence intervals for means
- Calculate hypothesis test means and power or sample size estimates when testing means.
- Tests of goodness of fit tests of independence, tests of homogeneity
- Calculate the regression equation
- Calculate correlation coefficient
- Interpreting life tables clinical trials
- Calculate and interpret relative risks and confidence intervals for relative risks
- Data can be downloaded from following or from any known data source
- https://hbiostat.org/data/
- https://biolincc.nhlbi.nih.gov/teaching/
- https://libguides.denison.edu/c.php?g=776168&p=5661119
- https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/publichealth/healthstatistics/rawdata
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Wayne W. Daniel, Biostatistics-A Foundation for Analysis in the Health Sciences, John Wiley & Sons Publication, 10th Edition, 2013.
- Peter Armotage, Geoffrey Berry and J.N.S.Mathews, Statistical methods in Medical Research, Wiley-Blackwell, 4th Edition, 2001.
- Bernard Rosner. Fundamentals of biostatistics. Nelson Education, 8th Edition 2015 ISBN:78-1-305-26892-0
- Editors: Chandan K. Reddy, Charu C. Agarwal, Healthcare Data Analytics, CRC Press,
Reference Books:
- Marcello Pagano and Kimberlee Gauvreu, Principles of Biostatistics, Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2ndEdition, 2018.
- Ronald N Forthofer and EunSul Lee, Introduction to Biostatistics, Academic Press, 1st Edition, 2014.
- Animesh K. Dutta, Basic Biostatistics and its Applications, New Central Book Agency, 1st Edition, 2006.
Online Resources
- https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106/107/106107220/
- https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc21_cs45/preview
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Biomedical Engineering 5th Sem, visit BME 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Biomedical Engineering results, visit Anna University BME all semester results direct link.