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GENERAL INFORMATION

Instructor

Lecture Information

  • Time: Tuesday / Thursday 8:30 - 9:45
  • Location: Williams-Brice Building (WMBB) 127

Book

  • Statistics for the Life Sciences, Samuels, Witmer and Schaffner (5th ed.)

Miscellany

  • Office Hours: T/Th 4:00 - 5:30 PM, W 1:00-2:00 PM or by appointment
  • Syllabus: Download

Notice

1. Final grade were input.
2. Have a nice summer vacation!

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COURSE MATERIAL

Exam Materials

Exam Practice Exam Solution Exam Solution
Exam I [Practice Exam I] [Solution] [Type A] / [Type B]
Exam II [Practice Exam II] [Solution] [Type A] / [Type B]
Final [Practice Final] [Solution]

Miscellany

Material
z-table, t-table

ASSIGNMENT

Homework

# Homework R-Lab Due Date Solution
1 HW I Introduction to R 1/24 [HW I: Sol]
2 HW II Introduction to Data 2/05 [HW II: Sol]
3 HW III Probability 2/12 [HW III: Sol]
4 HW IV Normal Distribution part I: 2/19; Part II: 2/26 [HW IV: Sol]
5 HW V Sampling Distribution 3/19 [HW V: Sol]
6 HW VI Confidence Intervals 3/28 [HW VI: Sol]
7 HW VII - 4/02 [HW VII: Sol]
8 HW VIII - 4/18 [HW VIII: Sol]
9 HW IX Linear Regression 5/7
  • Please submit a hard copy of the homework (neatly written or typed) at the beginning of the class.
  • For the installation of R and RStudio, please watch the following youtube clips: Mac and PC. There are a lot of free resources regarding R on the Web. You can choose a couple of them for the reference.

Q & A FORUM

LECTURE LOG

Date Topics Covered Material
01/15 We went over the syllabus and finished Unit 1. Syllabus / Day1 Note
01/17 We studied variables, observational units and how to summarize data. Day2 Note
01/22 We learned descriptive statistics for central tendency and dispersion. Day 3 Note
01/24 We talked about relations between variables. The concepts of variance and standard deviation were introduced. HW I was collected. Day 4 Note
01/29 We finished Chapter 2 and started probability in Chapter 3. Quiz I was done in class. Day 5 Note
01/31 We talked about the probability rules. Day 6 Note
02/05 We finished Unit 6. HW I and Quiz I were returned. HW II was collected. Day 7 Note
02/07 We talked about discrete and continuous random variables. Binomial distribution was introduce as an example of discrete random variable. Quiz II was done in class. Day 8 Note
02/12 We finished binomial distributions and started to talk about normal distributions. HW III was collected. Day 9 Note
02/14 We talked about the probabilities and the pth percentiles of normal random variables. HW II and Quiz II were returned. Day 10
02/19 We reviewed the practice exam. HW III was returned. Hw IV (part I) was collected.
02/21 1st Mid term exam.
02/26 We talked about the sampling distribution of sample mean Day 11
02/28 The concept of interval estimator was introduced and we saw the form of the confidence interval for population mean. Day 12
03/05 We finished the confidence interval for population mean when the population standard deviation is known/unknown. Quiz III was done in the class. Day 13
03/07 We finished the confidence interval for the difference between population means. Quiz IV was done in the class. HW IV and Quiz III were returned. Day 14
03/19 We started the hypothesis testings. Day 15
03/21 We almost finised unit 12. Quiz V was done in the class. Day 16
03/26 We talked about the duality between confidence intervals and hypothesis testings. Quiz 4, Quiz 5 and HW 5 were returned. Day 17
03/28 We covered the types of error and R command for t tests. Day 18
04/02 We reviewed the practice exam II.
04/04 2nd Mid term exam.
04/09 We learned Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitner test. Graded Midterm II paper was returned. Day 19
04/11 We covered paired design. Day 20
04/16 We took a look at test for proportion(s). Day 21
04/18 We started linear regression. Quiz VII was done in the class Day 22
04/23 We finished linear regression. HW VII and quiz VII were returned. Day 23
04/25 We reviewed the practice final. Practice Final
05/07 Final Exam.