Bio Z620 - Biostatistics

Grading Procedure and class policies: Homework assignments involve mini-projects where you completely analyze a data set and turn in a written report about your results. The assignments can be found through their links which are located on their due dates on the syllabus given below. In addition, you have one individual data analysis project of a data set of your choosing. Your data and research proposal are due on November 3, a progress report is due December 1, and your final report due by Friday, December 17 at 12:15pm. The mini-project grading rubric can be found through the following link: Grading Rubric for Mini-Projects The final project grading rubric is more loosely defined and can be found at: Grading Rubric for the Final Project A sample write-up can be found at: Sample Mini-Project Write Up Minitab can be purchased or rented through http://www.onthehub.com/minitab/ The Stat Math Center

Points Homeworks   200 Attendance and Participation   100 Individual Project   200 -------------------------- ------ Total   500

Cheating Policy: You can work together on the homeworks. Individual projects should be your individual work only and, if I have determined that you have cheated, I will give you an F in the course.

Religious Holiday Policy: If you will miss class, especially a class during which there will be an exam or other required work, for a religious holiday, you must inform me during the first two weeks of the semester.  

 

Tentative Syllabus
Date	Topics	Supplementary Material and Work Due
Monday, August 30	Developing your common sense	John McDonald's Free Online Text: Handbook of Biological Statistics
Wednesday, September 1	Intuitive p-values	Data and Code for Lecture 2
Friday, September 3	Various versions of the t-test.	--
Monday, September 6	Assumptions	--
Wednesday, September 8	Log Transformations	Data for Lecture 5
Friday, September 10	Nonparametric procedures for comparing two distributions	Data and Code for Lecture 6
Monday, September 13	Bootstrapping and Permutation tests	Mini-project 1 Data and Code for Lecture 7
Wednesday, September 15	Paired Samples	Data for Lecture 8
Friday, September 17	Guide to comparing two samples	--
Monday, September 20	One-way ANOVA theory	--
Wednesday, September 22	One-way ANOVA examples	Data for Lecture 11
Friday, September 24	ANOVA alternatives	Welch's ANOVA Macro
Monday, September 27	Making Comparisons after ANOVA	Mini-project 2
Wednesday, September 29	Multiple comparisons	Data for Lecture 14
Friday, October 1	Simple linear regression I	Data for Lecture 15
Monday, October 4	Simple linear regression II	Pearson's Data on Father and Son heights
Wednesday, October 6	Outliers and leverage points	--
Friday, October 8	Regression diagnostics	--
Monday, October 11	Transformations and regression A cautionary note on the statistical analysis of allometric relationships.	Bird heart rate and egg mass data from Tazawa et al. 2001
Wednesday, October 13	Serial correlation To compute the significance of the serial correlation you need the table in Durbin's and Watson's paper: Tables for assessing the significance of the Durbin and Watson Statistic	Consumption of Spirits in the United Kingdom
Friday, October 15	Weighted regression	Data for Lecture 21
Monday, October 18	Multiple linear regression I - Theory	Mini-project 3
Wednesday, October 20	Multiple linear regression II - Beginning Diagnostics	Data for Lecture 23
Friday, October 22	Multiple linear regression III - More Diagnostic Tools	--
Monday, October 25	Regression and ANOVA	--
Wednesday, October 27	Interactions in Regression	Data for Lecture 26
Friday, October 29	General Linear Models	--
Monday, November 1	Class canceled - to be made up later in the term.	--
Wednesday, November 3	Model selection I	Research proposal and data due
Friday, November 5	Model Selection II	Data for Lecture 29
Monday, November 8	2(+)-way ANOVA	Mini-project 4 Data for Lecture 30
Wednesday, November 10	2(+)-way ANOVA without replication	Data for Lecture 31
Friday, November 12	Random effects and experimental design	--
Monday, November 15	Categorical responses: test for equal proportions and odds ratios	--
Wednesday, November 17	Categorical responses: Chi-square tests and Fisher's exact test	--
Friday, November 19	Mantel-Haenszel test	--
Monday, November 22	Help with Projects Day	Mini-project 5 (Due by 11:59 pm Tuesday, November 23rd by e-mail.) Mini-project 5 with a reduced data set
Wednesday, November 24	Thanksgiving Break	--
Friday, November 26	Thanksgiving Break	--
Monday, November 29	Logistic regression - theory	--
Wednesday, December 1	Logistic regression - examples	Progress report due Data for Lecture 38
Friday, December 3	Logistic regression - diagnostics	--
Monday, December 6	Logistic regression with binomial counts Notes Not Available	Data for Lecture 40
Wednesday, December 8	Extra-binomial variation Notes Not Available	Mini-project 6 (due Monday of Finals week)
Friday, December 10	Ratios: Notes Not Available	--
Written Project due Friday, December 17 by 12:15 pm