Crump, MJC (2018) Answering questions with data Retrieved from https://crumplab.github.io/statistics/
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Crump, MJC., Krishnan, A. Volz, S. and Chavaga, A. (2018) Answering questions with data: Lab Manual Retrieved from https://crumplab.github.io/statisticsLab/
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Schedule
| Class | Date | Topic | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug 28 | Introduction to biostatistics and this course, course survey | Crump Chapter 1 "Why Statistics?" |
| 2 | Sept 4 | Describing data; Excel instruction | Crump Chapter 2 "Describing Data" |
| 3 | Sept 11 | Quiz 1, Correlation | Crump Chapter 3 "Correlation", Lab 3.4 |
| 4 | Sept 18 | Probability, distributions | Crump Chapter 4 "Probability, Sampling, and Estimation" |
| 5 | Sept 25 | Confidence intervals, hypothesis tests, Excel/SPSS instruction | 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 |
| 6 | Oct 2 | Quiz 2, t-tests | |
| Class Doesn't meet Oct. 9 or Oct. 16 | |||
| 7 | Oct 23 | ANOVA, ethics | Crump Chapter 7 "ANOVA", Crump Chapter 8 "Repeated Measures ANOVA", Crump Chapter 9 "Factorial ANOVA" and Crump Chapter 10 "More On Factorial Designs", readings to be assigned. |
| 8 | Oct 30 | Quiz 3, Linear regression | Schnieder 2010 |
| 9 | Nov 6 | Study designs, risk measures, logistic regression | Weist 2015 |
| 10 | Nov 13 | Quiz 4, meta-analysis | Stern 2008, Hagan 2008 |
| 11 | Nov 20 | Quiz #3 (SPSS) | Time-to-event data, survival analysis |
| 12 | Nov 27 | Statistical power and sample size determination | Crump Chapter 12 "Thinking about answering questions with data" |
| 13 | Dec 4 | Quiz 5, How to critically read the quantitative research literature | Coughlan 2007, Jack 2010, Long evaluation tool, other documents to be assigned |
| 14 | Dec 11 | Review | |
| 15 | Dec 18 | Final Exam |
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