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HNSC 3300 Introduction to Biostatistics for the Health Sciences: M 6:30-9:15pm Lecture Schedule and Readings

OER for Prof. Pouget

Section EM6
Monday 6:30pm to 9:15pm

Textbook

Textbook

Crump, MJC (2018) Answering questions with data Retrieved from https://crumplab.github.io/statistics/

License: This book is released under a creative commons license CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lab Manual

Lab manual

Crump, MJC., Krishnan, A. Volz, S. and Chavaga, A. (2018) Answering questions with data: Lab Manual Retrieved from https://crumplab.github.io/statisticsLab/

License: This book is released under a creative commons license CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lecture and Reading Calendar

Schedule

Class Date Topic Reading
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

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