The course deals with descriptive summary of epidemiologic data and basic principles that underlie health research designs and statistical inferences. It involves fundamental statistical procedures for research projects such as descriptive statistics, probability, distributions, hypothesis testing and estimation, comparisons of means and proportions, analysis of variance, measures of association, regression and correlation, two-way analysis of variance and covariance, multiple regression, analysis of categorical data, logistic regression, poisson regression and survival analysis in population and health.      

Objectives: By the end of the course the students should be able to understand basic principles underlying health research design and also perform and interpret various epidemiological and statistical data.

Mode of Delivery: The content will be delivered by means of didactic lecturers, group presentations and experience sharing.