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 Biostatistics 140.621
 Statistical Methods in Public Health I

   Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Date

  Class 

 Event  Lecture Topic Reading   *
Assignment

Thurs
Aug 27
  1  

Statistical Reasoning in Public Health

Chapter 1
 
Tues 
Sep 1
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  2  

Exploring and Organizing Data
to Address Public Health Questions: 
Continuous, Discrete, Time-to-Event Data

Chapter 2.1 - 2.6
    2.8 - 2.12, 14.9 
Thurs 
Sep 3
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  3  

Exploring and Organizing Data (continued);
Probability Concepts and Distributions

Chapter 3
 
Tues 
Sep 8
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  4  

Binomial and Poisson Distributions
 

Chapter 4
Thurs
Sep 10
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  5 PS 1 
due

Normal Distributions

Chapter 5
 

Tues
Sep 15
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  6 QUIZ 1  

Populations and Samples

Chapter 6.1 - 6.4
Thurs
Sep 17
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  7  

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
Tues 
Sep 22
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  8  

Introduction to Statistical Inference:
    The Bootstrap

 
Thurs
Sep 24
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  9 PS 2 
due

Summary and Review

 
Tues
Sep 29
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 10
 
 

MIDTERM EXAMINATION

 

 
Thurs
Oct 1
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11  

Estimation

Hypothesis Testing
 

 
Tues
Oct 6
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12   Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis
Tests:
        Single Sample Mean
 
Chapter 7.1 - 7.4,
            7.7
Thurs
Oct 8
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13 PS 3 
due
 

Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis
Tests:
  -  Difference between Two Sample Means
  -  Pre-Post Designs and Other
          Paired Comparisons

Chapter 8.4 - 8.7,
             8.2
Tues
Oct 13
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  14 QUIZ 2
  

Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests:

  • Estimating a Proportion in a Single Population

  • Comparing Proportions from Two Populations

Chapter 7.10,
           10.2
Thurs
Oct 15
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  15 PS 4 
due

Summary and Review

 

 
Tues
Oct 20
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  16  

FINAL EXAMINATION

 

 *  Bernard Rosner, Fundamentals of Biostatistics,  (2006).


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