FOR 6530  Winter 2003

Alliant International University

Course Syllabus

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

Teaching Assistants: TBA  (for now) E-mail: TBA@stat.ucla.edu

Tentative order of topics covered
1. Review of Research Design I , Fall 2002:
• Data Visualization/Summaries
• Measures of Central Tendency and Variability
• Normal Distribution, Z-scores, Normal-Standardization
• Probability, Samples & Sampling error
• Hypothesis testing - One vs. Two dependent/independent samples tests
• Type I and Type II errors; Power of a test
• Bivariate relations: Correlation and Regression
• Distribution free - Non-parametric - statistical tests 
2. Applications of Central Limit Theorem, Law of Large Numbers.
3. Design of studies and experiments.
4. Fisher's F-Test & Analysis Of Variance (ANOVA, 1- or 2-way).
5. Principle Component Analysis (PCA).
6. χ² (Chi-Square) Goodness-of-fit test.
7. Multiple linear regression
8. General Linear Model
9. Bootstrapping and Resampling
   

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