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Undergraduate Statistics Requirement
If you are applying to the MPH* program in Epidemiology or Health
Promotion, please note the following requirement:
- Epidemiology:
You must have completed your undergraduate statistics course
prior to January 16th, with a minimum grade
of B+ (B plus).
- Health Promotion:
Applications will be reviewed if you have completed an
undergraduate statistics course by January 16th, OR
are enrolled in an undergraduate statistics course
in the January-May term. You must achieve a minimum grade of
mid-B.
If you are uncertain about the content areas
covered in your chosen statistics course, please contact the instructor at your home
university.
Statistical competence should include the ability
to compute and an understanding of the following concepts which are
typically included in introductory statistics courses in the social
sciences or mathematics:
- Frequency distributions, skewness
- Measures of central tendency: Mean, median,
mode
- Measures of variation: Standard deviation,
standard score
- Probability, normal curve
- Correlation
- Regression (linear)
- Sampling, confidence intervals
- Levels of measurement: nominal, ordinal,
interval
- Test of significance: Null hypothesis:
t-test, one-tail/two-tail tests
- Test of significance: Chi square
- Analysis of variance
*known as the MHSc
degree prior to September 1, 2009.
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