PTP 721 - Research Methods and Stats in PT 2.

Admission to the PhD in Physical Therapy program. (4).

Focuses on epidemiology and biostatistics concepts and methods needed to conduct cohort, population studies in research and practice. The course covers epidemiology as a methodology for thinking about and designing research to address basic questions of interest in health and medicine and to address specific hypotheses regarding risk factors. Students will understand the science concerned with the occurrence, distribution, and causality of diseases and other health-related conditions in the world. Biostatistics concepts and methods to be covered include techniques for describing and summarizing observations, for assessing associations among variables, and for determining the extent to which chance may be explaining and/or influencing the observed results. Statistics include types of rates, rate calculations, rate adjustments, data display and interpretation, two-way ANOVA and Kaplan Meier survival curves. The course includes a weekly laboratory session on computer data analysis using the SPSS or SAS for Windows statistical package. Graded ABCDE/Y.