Statistics for laboratory scientists I (140.615)

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Third term objectives


Third term syllabus

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Date Topic      Reading N C H S L
January 23 Overview; what is statistics?
25 Displaying data badly; data summaries Ch 2
27 Experimental design Ch 8
 
30 Observational studies
February 1 Probability, conditional probability Sec 3.1-3.5
3 Examples, Bayes's theorem
 
6 More examples
8 Random variables, distributions, binomial, Poisson
[Quiz at 2:30p]
Sec 3.6-3.8
10 Normal distribution, multiple random variables Ch 4
 
13 Sampling distributions; Central limit theorem Ch 5
15 More of the same
17 Maximum likelihood estimation
 
20 Confidence interval (CI) for the mean Sec 6.1-6.5
22 CIs for differences between means, CI for population SD
[Quiz at 2:30]
Sec 7.1-7.3
24 Tests of hypotheses Sec 9.1-9.3
 
27 Tests for differences between means Sec 7.4-7, 7.9-10
March 1 Calculation of sample size and power Sec 7.8
3 Permutation tests and other non-parametric tests Sec 7.11-12, 9.4-7
 
6 Confidence interval for a proportion Sec 6.6
8 Uses and abuses of tests
[Quiz at 2:30]
10 Transformations and outliers
 
13 Analysis of gene expression microarrays
15 Identifying essential genes in M tuberculosis
17 Exam (10:30-12:30)


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