Fall 2000

Text:  Rosner, B. (1995) "Fundamentals of Biostatistics, 
Fifth Edition".  Belmont, Duxbury Press.


Date             Topic
Aug 31           Introduction              Chapter One
                 Descriptive Statistics    Chapter Two
Sept 5,7         Laws of Probability       Chapter Three
Sept 12,14       Discrete distributions    Chapter Four
Sept 19,21       Continuous distributions  Chapter Five
Sept 26          Review
Sept 28          Test One
Oct 3,5          Estimation                Chapter Six
Oct 10,12,17     One sample inference      Chapter Seven
Oct 19,24,26     Two sample inference      Chapter Eight
Oct 31           Review
Nov  2           Test Two
Nov 7,9,14       Categorical data          Chapter Ten
Nov 16           Correlation               Chapter Eleven
Nov 21           No Class
Nov 23           Thanksgiving
Nov 28,30        Simple linear regression  Chapter Eleven
Dec  5           Nonparametric tests       Chapter Twelve
Dec 7            Review
Last exam during finals period
   By arrangement

We will have ten minute quizzes on Sep 12, 19, Oct 10, 17, 24, Nov 14, 28, Dec 5. I will drop your lowest two scores. The quizzes and each exam will count as one quarter of your grade. I will assign homework, but I won't collect it.

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