Section MW2
Monday and Wednesday 2:15pm - 3:30pm
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.
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.
Schedule
| Class | Date | Topic | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W Aug 28 | Introduction to biostatistics and this course, course survey | |
| 2 | W Sept 4 | Measurements | Crump Chapter 1 "Why Statistics?" |
| 3 | R Sept 5 | Describing data, math for statistics.[Class meets Thursday] | Crump Chapter 2 "Describing Data" |
| 4 | M Sept 9 | Describing data, Excel instruction | Excel quick start guide |
| 5 | W Sept 11 | Correlation | Crump Chapter 3 "Correlation", Lab 3.4 |
| 6 | M Sept 16 | Quiz #1 (Excel) | |
| 7 | W Sept 18 | Probability and sampling | Crump Chapter 4 "Probability, Sampling, and Estimation" |
| 8 | M Sept 23 | Probability distributions | " |
| 9 | W Sept 25 | Confidence intervals | Crump Chapter 4 "Probability, Sampling, and Estimation", Crump Chapter 5 "Foundations for inference"; Lab 1.0, Lab 1.4, Lab 2.0, and Lab 2.4 |
| 10 | W Oct 2 | Excel/SPSS instruction | IBM SPSS Statistics Base manual |
| 11 | M Oct 7 | Hypothesis tests | Crump Chapter 5 "Foundations for inference" |
| 12 | W Oct 16 | T-tests | “, Lab 6.6 and Lab 7.6 |
| 13 | M Oct 21 | Quiz #2 (SPSS, Excel) | |
| 14 | W Oct 23 | ANOVA | Crump Chapter 7 "ANOVA", Lab 8.6 |
| 15 | M Oct 28 | MANOVA, ANCOVA, non-parametric tests |
Crump Chapter 8 "Repeated Measures ANOVA", Chapter 9 "Factorial ANOVA" , Chapter 10 "More On Factorial Designs", Lab 9.6, and Lab 10.6 |
| 16 | W Oct 30 | The replication crisis, ethics | Readings to be assigned |
| 17 | M Nov 4 | Quiz #3 (SPSS) | - |
| 18 | W Nov 6 | Linear regression | Schnieder 2010 linear |
| 19 | M Nov 11 | Chi-square, Logistic regression | Weist 2015 logistic |
| 20 | W Nov 13 | Advanced regression, study designs | Readings to be assigned |
| 21 | M Nov 18 | Quiz #4 | - |
| 22 | W Nov 20 | Time-to-event analysis | Lennie 2018 heart failure |
| 23 | M Nov 25 | Survival Analysis | Hagan 2010 HCV |
| 24 | W Nov 27 | Statistical power/required sample size calculations | Crump Chapter 12 "Thinking about answering questions with data" |
| 25 | M Dec 2 | Quiz #5 | - |
| 26 | W Dec 4 | Critically reviewing the research literature, evaluating effects, meta-analysis | Coughlan 2007, Jack 2010, Long evaluation tool, Hagan 2008 HCV, other documents to be assigned |
| 27 | M Dec 9 | " | ' |
| 28 | W Dec 11 | Review | Class powerpoints, class articles and assignments, Crump text |
| 29 | M Dec 16 | Final Exam |
Unless otherwise noted, HNS 3300 Introduction to Biostatistics for the Health Sciences Open Educational Resource (OER) was curated by Professor Enrique Pouget for Brooklyn College in 2018, updated in 2019 and is based upon the work of Professor Matthew Crump, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. [Detailed license and acknowledgements]
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