Stats 13 : Introduction to Statistical Methods for Life and Health Sciences (Winter 2009)

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Discussion Materials

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• Lab 1 (Jan 6). R basics.
• Discussion 1 (Jan 8). Review of concepts: variable, sample, frequency distribution / histogram, quartiles, modes. Overlay two plots in lab1 assignment.
• Lab2 (Jan 13). R commands to compute and display histograms, boxplots. Interpret the results. Extract elements from table using "subset()".
• Discussion 2 (Jan 15).
• Lab 3. (Jan 20) Re-randomization.
• Discussion 3. (Jan 22) Probability: sample space, event. Law of large numbers.
• Lab 4. (Jan 27) Computing the null distribution in hypo-geometric case. Computing the p-value.