For general information on my office and office hours, please see my home page.
Please read the General course information page. This page includes information on
For a list of things that annoy me see gripes.
Course announcement will appear here...
Text: Introductory Applied Biostatistics, R. D'Agostino, L. Sullivan, A. Beiser.
Assignments: See instructions for home work here
There are a number of exercises in section 2.6 similar to those assigned. Make sure you can do these without having to refer to the notes or text. Pay particular attention to the vocabulary for the quiz on the 20th.
How is data represented, summarized and displayed in a useful way. This is what the "statistician" referred to during baseball games does.
Rules for how random event work. We'll include some surprises.
This is one of the key and amazing discoveries that makes advanced statistics possible.
Since "real world" studies involve only a finite amount of data, how confident are we that the data is telling us about the population as a whole?
How are two quanitities (like number of cigarettes per day and life expectancy) related and how much of the variation in one quantity depends on the other.