Reminder: This course does not have prerequisites and all students can enroll in 140.615 and 140.616 (passing 140.615 is required to get a grade in 140.616). Especially in the School of Medicine it is not uncommon that your administrator or the registrar for some reason might ask you to contact the instructor to get permission. You do have permision. Here is the official JHSPH page for this class, see Instructor Consent at the bottom. There is no upper limit on the number of registrations.

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January

21 introduction 23 summarizing and presenting data 26 experimental design 28 statistics and probability 30 random variables and distributions.

February

2 + 4 random variables and distributions 6 multiple random variables 9 + 11 sampling distributions 13 + 16 confidence intervals 18 + 20 hypothesis testing 23 + 25 sample size and power calculations 27 permutation and non-parametric tests.

March

2 confidence intervals for proportions 4 maximum likelihood estimation 6 + 9 goodness of fit 11 contingency tables 13 contingency tables 16 confidence intervals for proportions (lab).

March

23 + 25 analysis of variance.