The Introduction to Biostatistics course is designed to provide graduate dental students with an understanding of the statistical methods necessary for data analysis and literature interpretation. The course covers: the summary of quantitative and categorical data; normal curve principles; the t-test, one-way, factorial and repeated measures analysis of variance; chi-square tests and other non- parametric methods; simple regression and correlation; multiple regression and ANCOVA. Special topics, such as examiner agreement and sample size estimation, are also included. In addition, the course offers an introduction to logistic regression and survival analysis. The course includes both lectures and statistics computer lab sessions. Students are taught to create and manipulate dental datasets and conduct statistical analysis of data using commonly available computer applications (e.g., SPSS). References from dental and medical literature are used extensively during the course.