Stat 503: Statistical Methods for Biology (Banner Course Number: 50300)

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Fall 2009 textbooks are:

For Zhang, Lingsong -- Samuels & Witmer, Statistics for the Life Sciences, 3rd/2003 Edition, Required
For Qin, T. -- Samuels & Witmer, Statistics for the Life Sciences, 3rd/2003 Edition, Required
For Bogdan, M. -- Samuels & Witmer, Statistics for the Life Sciences, 3rd/2003 Edition, Required
For Sharabati, W. -- Samuels & Witmer, Statistics for the Life Sciences, 3rd/2003 Edition, Required

Summer 2009 textbook was:

For Qin, T. -- Samuels & Witmer, Statistics for the Life Sciences, 3rd/2003 Edition, Required

Spring 2010 textbooks will be:

For Zhang, Lingsong -- Samuels & Witmer, Statistics for the Life Sciences, 3rd/2003 Edition, Required
For Qin, T. -- Samuels & Witmer, Statistics for the Life Sciences, 3rd/2003 Edition, Required

Outline:

  1. Descriptive Statistics: frequency distributions; measures of center; measures of dispersion

  2. Foundations of Inference:random sampling; probability; binomial distributions; normal distribution; sample distributions

  3. Introduction to Estimation: standard error; confidence interval for single mean and for difference between means

  4. Introduction to Hypothesis Testing: P-value and statistical significance; power; two-sample t-test, Mann-Whitney test

  5. Experimental Design: control; randomization; blocking

  6. Analysis of Paired Data: t-test and confidence interval; sign test

  7. Analysis of Categorical Data: confidence interval for a proportion; chi-square goodness-of-fit test; contingency tables.

  8. One-way Analysis of Variance (with a global F test)

  9. Regression and Correlation: simple linear regression; standard error of regression slope; interpreting correlation

  10. Exams