UCLA STAT 13 (sections 1a, 1b & 1c) Fall 2002

UCLA Department of Statistics - STAT 13 - Statistical Methods for the Life and Health Sciences

Instructor: Ivo D. Dinov, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in Statistics, Research Scientist, Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine E-mail:

Teaching Assistants: Tom Daula (section 1c, 1b) E-mail: daula@stat.ucla.edu and Kaiding Zhu (section 1a) E-mail: kaiding@stat.ucla.edu

Tentative schedule of topics to be covered
1. Data Collection, Experiments, Observational Studies vs. Designed Experiments, Ch. 1
2. Variables Graphical & Numerical Summaries, Ch. 2
3. Probability & Independence, Ch. 4
4. Discrete Random Variables, Binomial Dist, Expected Value, Variance, Ch. 5
5. Bayes' Rule, supplement
6. Continuous Random Variables, Normal Distribution, Ch. 6
7. Inference, Means, Central Limit Theorem, Ch. 7
8. Confidence Intervals, Ch. 8
9. Hypothesis Testing, Ch. 9
10. Z-test for mean, proportion, Ch. 10
11. 2 independent samples, t-test, Ch. 7, 8, 9, 10
12. Bivariate Data, Correlation, Ch. 3
13. Regression, Ch. 12
14. ANOVA, Chi-square, Ch. 11

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