Information
- Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday 10:30-11:50 in W4030
- Labs: Tuesday 1:30 - 2:20 in W3008 and Wednesday 3:00 - 3:50 in W2015
- Instructor: Brian Caffo
- Office hours: Tuesday 9:00-10:20 and thursday 1:00 - 2:30 in E3610
- TAs: Chongzhi, Jessica, Hong
- Text (required): Fundamentals of Biostatistics by Bernard Rosner
- Software (required): R, freely available
- Grading policy: Exam 1 33%, Exam 2 33%, HW 33%
- Letter grades Grades of 90,80,70 are guaranteed an A, B and C respectively
- Prerequisites: Calculus and linear algebra
News
Some solutions for the homework are here. Note I can't put up solutions to the Rosner problems b/c of potential copyright issues. If you'd like to discuss those, come by my office on Monday.
There is a mistake in the notes that impacts the homework. The Chi-squared statistic is the square of the Score statistic, not the Wald statistic. That is, use the between-group estimate of p in the denominator.
The Wednesday lab has been moved to room W20015
There was a typo on the notes for lecture 15. To calculate a t P-value, you use th function "pt" not the function "dt"
This is the web site for 140.651 and 140.652, Methods and Biostatistics I and II. Check here frequently for updates.