Introduction to Biostatistics

MATH 58B, Spring 2010

Jo Hardin

Millikan 226D

jo.hardin@pomona.edu

Office Hours: Mon 1-3:30pm, Wed 10am-12, or by appointment

Mentor: Minsoo Kim

Mon 8-10pm, Wed 8-10pm

Andrew 257

LAB: Tuesday 11-12:15, Andrew 257

Syllabus

General Schedule

Daily Schedule & HW

Exam 1 (Thurs 2/25/10)

Exam 2 (Thurs 4/08/10)

Final Exam (Wednesday 5/12/10, 9am): when to use what handout, inference handout

Website with applets / activities / data

Handouts:

• R tutorial

-- An Introduction to R, Venables & Smith

-- R Language Definition, R Core Team

-- R primer, Christopher Green

• M&Ms handout
• CLT examples
• T-test example
• ANOVA handout
• Simple Linear Regression handout

• Traffic deaths
• Investigations Categorical Data
• Investigations Quantitative Data
• Probability examples
• Investigations Sampling
• Investigations Binomial

Data

• NC birth data

• cloudseeding.txt

• coaster.txt
• fan03.txt
• lifetimes.txt
• memoryletters.txt
• oldfaithful.txt
• parentage.txt
• rowers00.txt
• rowers04.txt
• sleepdeprivation.txt
• sleepdeprivation1.txt
• temps.txt
• USOpen04.txt
• hippocampus.txt
• shopping.txt
• aussiebirths.txt
• misc.txt
• earthquake.txt
• bodymeasurements.txt
• bodymeasurementheight.txt
• militiamen.txt
• agemom.txt
• NBApts99.txt
• shopping99.txt
• gettysburgpop.txt
• gettysburgsample.txt
• heroin.txt
• hypowaittimes.txt
• gotnormal.txt
• smokingstart.txt
• backpack.txt
• hondacivicused.txt
• nenanaicebreak.txt
• letrozole.txt
• nbasalaries0203.txt
• temps.txt
• shopping99cleaned.txt
• cloudseeding.txt
• transplants.txt
• backpack.txt
• hondaused.txt
• gymmembership.txt
• chocmelting.txt
• usopen04.txt
• housing.txt
• golfers.txt
• walmart.txt
• movies03.txt
• 2000pres.txt
• hypoHT.txt
• tvlife.txt
• heightfoot.xls
• surfer.txt