Successful completion of this course demonstrate your achievement of the following learning outcomes for the MS-DS program: Define a composite hypothesis and the level of significance for a test with ...

Basic concepts in hypothesis testing, including effect sizes, type I and type II errors, calculation of statistical power, non-centrality parameter, and applications of these concepts to twin studies.

Significance testing, with appropriate multiple testing correction, is currently the most convenient method for summarizing the evidence for association between a disease and a genetic variant.