Prerequisites: Stat 660, 662
Course Catalog Description:
This course consists primarily of biostatistical methods used in pharmaceutical
and medical research with particular application to cancer studies and
toxological animal studies. Some attention is given to related failure-timemethods
used in industry to test product reliability. Theoretical development of
some of these methods is discussed. Extensive data analysis is done using
SAS ( or compartible statistical packages). Topics include censoring Kaplan-Meier
survival curves, life-tables, two sample nonparametric procedures
