Biology 212 Spring 2006

Biostatistics

Professor: David Droney

Office: 206 Rosenberg Hall

Phone: 3597; email:droney@hws.edu

Office hours: Wed 2-3; Th 1030-1130 or by appointment

Lab: Rosenberg 009 (MacLab)

Evaluation Schedule:

Exam I Thursday, 23 Feb. (7 - 8:30 PM) 20 %

Exam II Thursday, 27 April (7- 8:30 PM) 25 %

Final Exam Monday 8 May (1:30 - 4:30 PM) 35 %

Quizzes 10 %

Assignments 10 %

Ä Attendance is mandatory for all lectures and lab sessions. Sign up sheets will be available. It is YOUR responsibility to sign the sheet. Each student has three absences for any reason (e.g., athletics, sickness etc) without explanation. The fourth absence will result in a letter grade reduction, and a half grade will be deducted for each absence after that. Each missed lab will result in a letter grade reduction unless a valid excuse is given prior to the lab.

Notes:

1. All exams are comprehensive.

2. All exams are open book.

3. No make-ups or early exams will be given.

4. Short, announced quizzes will be given approximately once per

week during class. These quizzes ARE NOT OPEN BOOK and will test conceptual knowledge (i.e., not calculations).

Required materials:

1. An Introduction to Biostatistics by Glover & Mitchell

2. A TI-83 (or TI 83 plus) statistics calculator. GET THIS!!!

3. a loose-leaf three ring binder to keep many hand-outs.

4. Recommended: A third party manual for SPSS for Mac (or

Windows). This is the computer stat package we will use. Many

Instructions/manuals exist online and can be accessed by searching via

Google etc.

Topic Outline

Week

1 Descriptive Statistics Ch. 1

1 & 2 Probability Ch 2

3 & 4 Special distributions Ch. 3

(Poisson, Binomial, Normal)

4 & 5 Sampling distributions Ch. 4

5 Hypothesis Testing/Design Ch. 5

6. One group comparisons Ch 6

7. Two group Comparisons Ch. 7

(t-test; paired t; non-parametric

alternatives)

Multi-group Design (ANOVA) Ch. 8

(One-way ANOVA)

8. K-Factor Design (Two-way ANOVA; Ch. 9

Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA by ranks)

9. Regression and Correlation Ch. 10

10. Analysis of Categorical Data Ch. 11

BIOSTATS 212 RESOURCES

Past Exams

1. Exam 1 2005