|
Date |
Class |
Event |
Syllabus
Lecture Topic |
Reading
*
Assignment |
|
Tues
Sep 1 |
1 |
|
Statistical Reasoning in Public
Health |
Chapter 1
|
Thurs
Sep 3
 |
2 |
|
Exploring and Organizing Data
to Address Public Health Questions:
Continuous and Discrete Data |
Chapter 2.1 - 2.5;
2.8 - 2.9 |
Tues
Sep 8
|
3 |
|
Exploring and Organizing Data (continued);
Probability Concepts and Distributions |
Chapter 3
|
Thurs
Sep 10
|
4 |
PS 1
due |
Binomial and Poisson Distributions
|
Chapter 4 |
Fri
Sep 11 |
|
|
Quiz 1 |
|
Tues
Sep 15
|
5 |
|
Binomial and Poisson Distributions
(continued)
|
Chapter 4
|
|
Thurs
Sep 17
|
6 |
PS 2
due |
Summary and Review
|
|
Tues
Sep 22
|
7 |
|
MIDTERM
EXAMINATION |
|
Thurs
Sep 24
|
8 |
|
Normal Distributions
Populations and Samples |
Chapter 5
Chapter 6.1 - 6.4 |
Tues
Sep 29
|
9 |
|
Introduction to Statistical
Inference:
Sampling Distributions
- Single Sample Mean
- Difference between Two Sample Means
- Single Sample Proportion
- Difference between Two Sample Proportions
|
Chapter 6.5 |
Thurs
Oct 1
|
10
|
|
Introduction to
Statistical Inference:
The Bootstrap |
|
Tues
Oct 6
|
11 |
PS 3
due
|
Estimation;
Hypothesis Testing
Problem Set 3 (revised)
NOTE:
for the sampling problem, use Google Chrome, not IE (Internet
Explorer)
Data sets:
|
|
Thurs
Oct 8
|
12 |
QUIZ 2
|
Confidence
Intervals and Hypothesis
Tests:
Single Sample Mean
|
Chapter 7.1 - 7.4,
7.7 |
Tues
Oct 13
|
13 |
|
Confidence Intervals
and Hypothesis
Tests:
- Difference between Two Sample Means
- Pre-Post Designs and Other
Paired Comparisons |
Chapter 8.4 - 8.7,
8.2 |
Thurs
Oct 15
|
14 |
|
Confidence Intervals
and Hypothesis
Tests:
|
Chapter 7.10,
10.2 |
Tues
Oct 20
|
15 |
PS 4
due |
Summary and Review
|
|
Thurs
Oct 22
|
16 |
|
FINAL
EXAMINATION |
|
* Bernard Rosner, Fundamentals of
Biostatistics, (2011).
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