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 Biostatistics 140.610
 Introduction to Public Health Statistics

  ©2004, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

 

Date Class Event Lecture Topic Reading  *
Assignment
(optional)

Tues
Apr 1
1   Introduction
Tables and Graphs: Summarizing
Information about a Population
Ch 1 (1-5)
Ch 2 (7-29)
Ch 2(11-29)
Tues
Apr 8
2   Population Indices: Ratios, Proportions and Rates Ch 4 (66-72)
Ch 4 [59-61]
Tues
Apr 15
3 Quiz 1
HW 1 due
Direct Adjustment: Comparing
Populations
Ch 4 (72-87)
Ch 4 [61-67]
Tues
Apr 22
4
 
Indirect Adjustment: 
Comparing Populations
Ch 4 (87-89)
Ch 4 [ 67-81 ]
Tues
Apr 29
5 Quiz 2
HW 2 due
Estimating the Survival of a Population:
Life Tables
Ch 5 (97-106)
Ch 5 (111-115)
Ch 5 [ 85-104 ]
Tues
May 6
6 Quiz 3
HW 3 due
Populations and Samples
Ch 22 (514-517)
Ch 22 [469-479]
Tues
May 13
7 EXAM EXAMINATION  

* Principles of Biostatistics:   by Marcello Pagano and Kimberlee Gauvreau, Second Edition 2000.
[ Readings from the First Edition, 1993, are shown in brackets. ]


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