Statistics 13: Intro to Statistical Methods for the Health and Life Sciences

Announcements

• First lecture is on Monday, 28 September 2009.
  Location: WGYOUNG CS24.
  Time: 15:00 - 16:20.
  See you then!

Useful links:

For some of the labs you will need to access the Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) at:

http://www.socr.ucla.edu

The labs are listed under the following link (instructions will be given as to which lab is due when etc. - mainly distributions and experiments activities):

http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/SOCR_EduMaterials.

Useful link:

Probability and Statistics EBook.

Labs

Monty Hall experiment: Due on Tuesday 06 October.

Dice experiment: Due on Tuesday 13 October.

Geometric, Binomial, Hypergeometric probability distributions using SOCR: Due on Tuesday 20 October.

Central limit theorem using SOCR: Due on Tuesday, 03 Novemeber.

Central limit theorem using SOCR (pdf file): Due on Tuesday, 03 Novemeber.

SOCR lab: Due on Tuesday, 24 Novemeber.

Handouts

1. Probability.

2. Combinations.

3. Poker combinations and probabilities.

4. Discrete random variables (introduction).

5. Discrete probability distributions.

6. Normal distribution.

7. Linear combinations of normal random variables.

8. Central limit theorem (distribution of the sample mean and the sample proportion).

9. Central limit theorem - examples.

10. Measures of central tendency and variation.

11. Introduction to R.

11. Exam 2 - Practice problems.

12. Exam 2 - Practice problems - Solutions.

13. Confidence intervals.

14. Hypothesis testing.

15. Article related to the paired-t test.

16. Testing for two population means.

Homework

Homework 1: Due on Monday, 05 October.

Homework 2: Due on Thursday, 15 October.

Homework 3: Due on Tuesday, 27 October.

Homework 4: Due on Tuesday, 03 November.

Homework 5: Due on Monday, 16 November.

Homework 6: Due on Wednesday 25 November.

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