STAT/BMI 541: Introduction to Biostatistics

Instructor:


Christina Kendziorski
6729 Medical Sciences Center
1300 University Avenue
Email: kendzior@biostat.wisc.edu
Office Hours: Mondays 7:50 - 9:50 a.m.

TA:


Qi Tang
1276 MSC
1300 University Avenue
Email: qitang@stat.wisc.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:30-3:30; Thursdays 11:00-12:00
Phone: 890-1350

Lecture:


Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:00 - 5:15 p.m.; G5 119 CSC

Discussions:


Disc 311, Tuesday 5:25 p.m., 134 G5-CSC
Disc 312, Thursday 5:25 p.m., 134 G5-CSC
Disc 313, Thursday 3:00 p.m., 134 G5-CSC

Text:


Fundamentals of Biostatistics (6th ed.) by Bernard Rosner

Outline and Approximate Schedule:


Day 1: Data and Descriptive Statistics (Chs.1-2)
Weeks 1-4: Probability - Laws and Distributions (Chs.3-5)
Weeks 5-6: Estimation and the Central Limit Theorem (Ch.6)
Weeks 7: Hypothesis Testing (Ch.7)
Weeks 8-10: Comparing means - Student's t-Test and Analysis of Variance (Chs.8-9, Ch.12)
Weeks 11-13: Inference on Proportions, Chi-Square Test, McNemar's Test, Odds Ratio (Ch.10)
Weeks 14-15: Correlation, Simple Linear Regression, Multiple Regression (Ch.11)

Course Requirements:

Homework assignments (15%), 2 exams (Oct. 10 and Nov. 16 in class, 25% each), and the final exam (Saturday, December 23, 7:45 a.m., Ingraham 19, 35%).

Download lecture notes for:

Lecture 1 and BC form for Lecture 1.

Lecture 2

Lecture 3

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Lecture 5

Lecture 6

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Lecture 9

For lecture 10, we will review problems for the exam.

Lecture 11

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Lecture 14

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Lecture 21

Lecture 22 and ice.data

Lecture 23

Homework:

Please only write on one side of the paper that you turn in.

I recommend that you xerox copy your homework before turning it in. I will post a key shortly after the homework is due. You can compare your copy to the key for immediate feedback. Homework will be turned back to you asap.

Download Homework 1 and the key to HW1.

Download Homework 2 and the key to HW2.

Download Homework 3 and the key to HW3.

Download Homework 4 and the key to HW4.

Download Homework 5 and hamster.txt. The key to HW5 can be downloaded here.

Final:

Download the take home final and microarray data.