Fall 2014 STAT 503 Section 2
Statistical Methods for Biology

• STAT 503 Sec 2: Tue. and Thu. 10:30am-11:45am, UNIV 017
  • Instructor:   Jun Xie
  • Office Hours: Wed. and Thu. 2:20pm-3:20pm, HAAS 156B.
  • Email: junxie@purdue.edu
  • Mailbox: HAAS 164, open during business hours.
  
  
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• Course Information and Policy
  • Text book:
    
    Statistics for the Life Sciences, 4th edition by Samuels, Witmer, and Schaffner.
    
    
  • There are weekly homework, 6 quizzes, 2 midterms and 1 final exam.
    Grades will be based on combinations of all course works.
    See the course information and policy for the scale of grade assignments.
    
    
  • Brief course contents
    1. Different types of statistical studies
    2. Descriptive statistics
    3. Probability and binomial distribution
    4. Normal distribution
    5. Sampling distribution and confidence intervals
    6. Comparison of two independent samples
    7. Comparison of paired samples
    8. Analysis of categorical data
    9. Comparing the means of many independent samples, ANOVA
    10. Linear regression and correlation
  
  
• Tentative Course Schedules
  1. The first midterm will be on Sep 25, Thu. 10:30am-11:45am.
     
  2. The second midterm will be on Nov. 6, Thu. 10:30am-11:45am.
     
  
  
• Homework Assignments
  Homework is due on Thurdays by 5:00pm.
  Late homework will not be accepted under any circumstances.
  The lowest 2 homework grades will be dropped.