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