MPH107級起核心必修課程。與王彥雯合授

This course aims to provide students with fundamental epidemiologic concepts and study design, which will further be articulated with a broad overview of basic biostatistical methods to be used in public health. Students will be trained to read scientific literature to critically evaluate study designs and methods of data analysis. Students are expected to develop the ability of using appropriate study design and epidemiology measurements in conjunction with quantitative approaches in evidence-based public health. This is an asynchronous online learning course which contains three-hour online course, in the online system NTU COOL, and two- to six-hour in-class discussion (office hour) monthly. For the epidemiology part, students will be introduced to key concepts and principles of epidemiology, including various study designs, bias, confounding, and effect modification. For the biostatistics part, this is a fundamental course of basic biostatistics. We will focus on the statistical methodology and data analysis. The course will start with descriptive statistics. Next, students will learn the concepts and definitions of probability and distributions, as well as applications in statistics and in real world. Then, statistical inferences including estimation and hypothesis testing will be introduced. In the office hour, students can ask questions and clarify concepts of online video, and they will learn how to perform statistical analysis through R/EXCEL.

The objective of this course is to equip the students of MPH with knowledge and theory of biostatistics and epidemiology. After taking this course, students will be able to understand and apply key concepts of epidemiology in research to critically appraise epidemiological evidence. Furthermore, they will learn the basic statistics concepts and perform statistical analysis through R/EXCEL correctly.

The textbooks and reference books are listed below. The teaching materials including the tutorial and references are available from the course website. The students are expected to attend the office hours. Evaluation includes the examinations and regular exercise.

1. David D Celentano and Moyses Szklo (2020). Gordis Epidemiology. 6th Edition, Elsevier Saunders. 2. 當代公共衛生學叢書 -- 生物統計學 (2024)。總編輯：陳為堅、李玉春、陳保中，編輯：蕭朱杏、梁文敏。出版者：財團法人陳拱北預防醫學基金會。

1. Teachers' handouts 2. Biostatistics: Marcello Pagano, Kimberlee Gauvreau and Heather Mattie (2022). Principles of Biostatistics. 3rd edition, 滄海圖書.