Section EM6
Monday 6:30pm to 9:15pm
Schedule
Class | Date | Topic | Reading |
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1 | R Sept 5 | - | - |
2 | M Sept 9 | Introduction to biostatistics, math refresher | - |
3 | M Sept 16 | Intro to this course, course survey, measurements | Crump Chapter 1 "Why Statistics?" |
4 | M Sept 23 | Describing data; Excel instruction | Crump Chapter 2 "Describing Data" |
- | M Sept 30 | No classes | - |
5 | M Oct 7 | Quiz 1, probability, distributions | Crump Chapter 4 "Probability, Sampling, and Estimation" |
6 | W Oct 16 | Confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, SPSS instruction | Crump Chapter 5 "Foundations for inference"; Lab 1.0, Lab 1.4, Lab 2.0, and Lab 2.4 |
7 | M Oct 21 | Quiz 2, t-tests | Crump Chapter 6 "t-Tests" |
8 | M Oct 28 | ANOVA, ethics | Crump Chapter 7 "ANOVA", Crump Chapter 8 "Repeated Measures ANOVA", Chapter 9 "Factorial ANOVA" , Chapter 10 "More On Factorial Designs", Lee 2018, O’Connor 2018, Shulz 2002, Smith 2018, Wansink & Cheney 2004 |
9 | M Nov 4 | Correlation, Linear regression | Crump Chapter 3 "Correlation", Lab 3.4 |
10 | M Nov 11 | Quiz 3, study designs, risk measures, logistic regression | Weist 2015 |
11 | M Nov 18 | Time-to-event data, survival analysis | Hagan 2010, Lennie 2018 |
12 | M Nov 25 | Statistical power and sample size determination | Crump Chapter 12 "Thinking about answering questions with data" |
13 | M Dec 2 | Quiz 4, meta-analysis | Hagan 2008, Stern 2008 |
14 | M Dec 9 | Critically reviewing the quantitative research literature, final exam review | Coughlan 2007, Jack 2010, Long 2002 |
15 | M Dec 16 | Final Exam |