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  First Term
  September 1 - October 22, 2015

LECTURERS: 

LECTURES:

10:30 am - 12 pm Tuesday, Thursday
Section 01:	Sommer Hall  (Room E2014)
Section 02:	Sheldon Hall (Room W1214)

LABS for review, questions, and help with the problem sets:

Labs will start on Sep 3
 

LAB INSTRUCTORS

TEACHING ASSISTANTS 

Yibing (Oliver) Chen Yu Du Youssef Farag Jordan Johns Shuiqing Liu Yi-Chen Liu

Haidong Lu Gina Norato Genevieve Stein-O'Brien Yuting Xu Chao Yang Claire Ruberman

OFFICE HOURS for Teaching Assistants
(starting Thursday, Sep 3, optional)
 

LECTURE NOTES:

• Copies of the course materials are distributed during class. Purchase of these materials is included in registration. Copies of most materials are available for downloading in the "Classes" section of the course web site.  Acrobat Reader is needed for opening the course materials on the website.

Download Acrobat Reader

WEB SITE

• Contains course schedule, office hours, lecture notes, self-evaluation problem sets, Stata lecture notes, and problem set solutions and quiz and exam solutions.

     Userid:  bio621 

     Password:  (given in class)

AUDIO:

• An audio lecture is available and posted after each lecture on the course website in the "Classes" section.

TEXTBOOK:

• Recommended book for which we will provide reading assignments:

  • Bernard Rosner, Fundamentals of Biostatistics, 2011, Duxbury  Press, Belmont, CA.
     

• Suggested book:

  • Lawrence C. Hamilton. Statistics with Stata 12, 2012, Duxbury Press, Belmont, CA.

CALCULATOR

• Basic functions (+, -, x, ÷), logarithms and exponents, simple memory and recall, factorial key.

COMPUTING PACKAGE:

• Stata 14 Intercooled, Stata Press, College Station, Texas
   

• Buy through
  http://www.stata.com/order/new/edu/gradplans/campus-gradplan/

Course Policies

• Course grade based on:

  • 20% completion of 4 problem sets (points deducted if turned in late)

  • 5% quiz 1

  • 5% quiz2

  • 35% midterm exam

  • 35% final exam

Students may work together on the problem sets, but must hand in their own version of the problems set -- DO NOT SUBMIT AN EXACT COPY of another student's work.

OTHER LINKS:

• On-line statistics textbooks

  • http://onlinestatbook.com/2/index.html

  • http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/EBook

  • http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/

  • http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/
     

• Health and Behavior Survey

• Math Review

• Mathemagics

• Fast start

• Stata Overview Lecture - Audio

• "statz rappers"

• Biostatistical Literature and Art (2011)

• Biostatistical Literature and Art (2010)

• Biostatistics Literature and Art (2009)

• Biostatistics Poetry and Art (2008) 

• Biostatistics Poetry and Art (2007) 

• Department of Biostatistics

• LINKS to Stata Information

  • Purchase Stata Grad Plan: 

    • http://www.stata.com/order/new/edu/gradplans/campus-gradplan/

  • Stata website

  • Stata: A Brief Introduction

  • Stata Introduction (audio)

  • More Stata Introduction

    • Stata Introduction Practice Solutions

    • self_practice.dta

  • Stata Tips:

    • Graph options for a simple background

    • Saving Stata graphs on a MAC
       

• LINKS to Other Sites

  • Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

  • Sampling Distribution website

• More Applets for you to Try

  • http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/

  • Z-values:
    http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/z_table.html

• Statistics and Voting

  • Do the math and vote

  • Bayesian inference

  • Margin of error and voting

• Baffled by Statistics

• Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey. The Lancet, Volume 364, Issue 9448, Pages 1857-1864 L. Roberts, R. Lafta, R. Garfield, J. Khudhairi, G. Burnham

• Medicine Residents' Understanding of the Biostatistics and Results in the Medical Literature.  JAMA. 2007; 298:1010-1022. DM Windish; SJ Huot; ML Green.

• The Reverend Thomas Bayes, FRS:  A Biography to Celebrate the Tercentenary of His Birth.  Statistical Science: 19(1):3-43. D.R. Bellhouse

• Type I and Type II Errors in Justice System

• "Dull Hypothesis"

• Some Extra Problems for Fun

• More Extra Problems for Fun

• Interactive Normal Table Calculators:

• http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/z_table.html

• http://www.tutor-homework.com/statistics_tables/statistics_tables.html

• http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~west/applets/normaldemo.html