First Term
  September 4 - October 25, 2012

LECTURERS: 

LECTURES:

10:30 am - 12 pm Tuesday, Thursday
Section 01:	Sommer Hall  (Room E2014)
Section 02:	Sheldon Hall (Room W1214)

LABS for review, questions, and help with the problem sets:

Labs will start on Sep 4.
 

LAB INSTRUCTORS

TEACHING ASSISTANTS  (Pictures)
 

Rawan Al-lozi Jiawei Bai Leonardo Collado Torres Liming (Lillie) Dong Jose Flores Lei Huang

Sun Eun (Sunny) Lee Huitong Qiu Hoachang Shou Mariana Socal David Swedler Goro Yamada

OFFICE HOURS for Teaching Assistants
(starting Tuesday, Sep 4, optional)
 

LECTURE NOTES:

• Copies of the course materials are distributed during class. Purchase of these materials is included in registration. Copies of most materials are available for downloading in the "Classes" section of the course web site. Version 9.0 or higher of Acrobat Reader is needed for opening the course materials on the website.

Download Acrobat Reader

WEB SITE

• Contains course schedule, office hours, lecture notes, self-evaluation problem sets, Stata lecture notes, and problem set solutions and quiz and exam solutions.

     Userid:  bio621 

     Password:  (given in class)

AUDIO:

• An audio lecture is available and posted after each lecture on the course website in the "Classes" section.

TEXTBOOK:

• Recommended book for which we will provide reading assignments:

  • Bernard Rosner, Fundamentals of Biostatistics, 2011, Duxbury  Press, Belmont, CA.
     

• Suggested book:

  • Lawrence C. Hamilton. Statistics with Stata 12, 2012, Duxbury Press, Belmont, CA.

CALCULATOR

• Basic functions (+, -, x, ÷), logarithms and exponents, simple memory and recall, factorial key.

COMPUTING PACKAGE:

• Stata 12 Intercooled, Stata Press, College Station, Texas
   

• Buy through
  http://www.stata.com/order/new/edu/gradplans/gp-direct.html

Course Policies

• 5% Problem set 1 ( points deducted if turned in late)

• 5% Problem set 2 ( points deducted if turned in late)

• 5% Problem set 3 ( points deducted if turned in late)

• 5% Problem set 4 ( points deducted if turned in late)   

Students may work together, but must hand in their own version of the problems set -- DO NOT SUBMIT AN EXACT COPY of another student's work.

• 5% Quiz 1 (in class)

• 5% Quiz 2 (in class)

• 35% Midterm examination (in class)

• 35% Final examination (in class)

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• Use statistical reasoning to formulate public health questions in quantitative terms

• Design and interpret graphical and tabular displays of statistical information

• Use probability models to describe the trends and random variation in public health data

• Use statistical methods for inference, including tests and confidence intervals, to draw public health inferences from data

The course is designed to enable students to develop their data analysis skills.  Common important datasets will be analyzed by students using the statistical package Stata throughout the 621-624 course sequence.

OTHER LINKS:

• Math Review

• Mathemagics

• Fast start

• Stata Overview Lecture - Audio

• "statz rappers"

• Student Health Survey

• Biostatistical Literature and Art (2011)
• Biostatistical Literature and Art (2010)

• Biostatistics Literature and Art (2009)

• Biostatistics Poetry and Art (2008) 

• Biostatistics Poetry and Art (2007) 

• Department of Biostatistics

• LINKS to Stata Information

  • Purchase Stata Grad Plan:  www.stata.com/gpdirect

  • Stata website

  • Stata: A Brief Introduction

  • Stata Introduction (audio)

  • More Stata Introduction

    • Stata Introduction Practice Solutions

    • self_practice.dta

  • Stata Tips:

    • Graph options for a simple background

    • Saving Stata graphs on a MAC
       

• LINKS to Other Sites

  • Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

  • Sampling Distribution website

• More Applets for you to Try

  • http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/

  • Z-values:
    http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/z_table.html

• Statistics and Voting

  • Do the math and vote

  • Bayesian inference

  • Margin of error and voting

• Baffled by Statistics

• Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey. The Lancet, Volume 364, Issue 9448, Pages 1857-1864 L. Roberts, R. Lafta, R. Garfield, J. Khudhairi, G. Burnham

• Medicine Residents' Understanding of the Biostatistics and Results in the Medical Literature.  JAMA. 2007; 298:1010-1022. DM Windish; SJ Huot; ML Green.

• The Reverend Thomas Bayes, FRS:  A Biography to Celebrate the Tercentenary of His Birth.  Statistical Science: 19(1):3-43. D.R. Bellhouse

• Type I and Type II Errors in Justice System

• "Dull Hypothesis"

• Some Extra Problems for Fun

• More Extra Problems for Fun

• Interactive Normal Table Calculators:

• http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/z_table.html

• http://www.tutor-homework.com/statistics_tables/statistics_tables.html

• http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~west/applets/normaldemo.html

• Probability in the News – Find the Error!

• Bias vs Variance

• Normal tables

• t-tables

• StatsMate Lite for distributions
• Mean, Median and Skew: Correcting a Textbook Rule
• TED Talk with Hans Rosling – Best Stats You’ve Ever Seen
• Making an Inference – Decision Map contributed by Dr. Yair G. Rajwan

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