Biostatistics 140.651 and 140.652 Methods in Biostatistics I and II

Resources

Here are some notes on the 652 midterm

Review notes

For the 651 midterm
Updated review notes
Some notes about hypothesis testing
Some review notes

651 Homework

Homework 1
Homework 2
Homework 3
Homework 4

652 Homework

Homework 5
Homework 6 plus the task1.csv file
Homework 7
Homework 8
Some solutions for HW 8

Lecture Notes

Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Lecture 7
Lecture 8
Lecture 9
Lecture 10
Lecture 11
Lecture 12
Lecture 13
Lecture 14
Lecture 15
Lecture 16
Lecture 17
Lecture 18
Lecture 19
Lecture 20
Multinomial notes
Lecture 21
Lecture 22
Lecture 23
Lecture 24
Lecture 25 pluse see this
Lecture 26
Lecture 27
Lecture 28
Lecture 29
Lecture 30

R notes

Editor (suggested) Winedt (get the R Winedt add-ons at CRAN)
Verzani's notes on introductory statistics in R
Maindonald's note on introductory statistics in R
Faraway's notes on regression and ANOVA in R
Paradis' R for beginners
Burns' guide for the unwilling R user
Baron's R reference card
Short's R reference card
Karl's R web page
R plotting for beginners

Books, papers and articles

Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis by John A. Rice; Duxbury Press.
Fundamentals of Biostatistics by Rosner; Duxbury Press
Modern Applied Statistics with S by Venables and Ripley; Springer.
Flawed Statistics in Murder Trial May Cost Expert His Medical License
The Wainer article on displaying data badly (requires access to Jstor).
Gosset's article about the t distribution

R code from the class

Here's some R code for some of the figures we've used in class. Ignore the "postscript" commands that are commented out. That's for generating a postscript file.
expectation.R exponential.R coinLikelihood.R
bernoulliLikelihood.R varianceLikelihood.R stdNormal.R
qqnorm.R normalLikelihoodMean.R hist.R
coinCLT.R die.R lln.R
binomial.R beta.R binomialBayes.R
hpd.R
Optical.R Optical2.R Optical3.R
Optical4.R kappa.R captureRecapture.R

Famous statisticians/mathematicians that we'll talk about

Abraham de Moivre Jakob Bernoulli Thomas Bayes
Karl Friedrich Gauss Francis Galton Ronald Fisher
William Sealey Gosset Karl Pearson John Tukey
Andrey Kolmogorov Pafnuty Chebyshev Abraham Wald
Colon movie