Zhijin Wu PhD

Zwu/ImageHandler.ashxPHP2500: Introduction to Biostatistics (Fall 2009)

Teaching Assistants
Andrea Austin <Andrea_Austin@brown.edu>
Miles Ott <Miles_Ott@brown.edu>
Time & Location:
Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00-10:20 AM
121 South Main St Room 245
Labs: M,T,W,R 8:00-8:50 (starting Sept 14)
121 South Main St Room 251
Office Hour: Tuesday 12:00 - 2:00∗ or by appointment (Room 704)
TA office hours: Monday 11:00 -12:00, 1 - 2:00
Thursday 12:00 -2:00 (Room 243B)

**On 09/15, 10/13, 11/10, 12/8 the office hour will be 1:00 -3:00.

Syllabus

Course Contents

Lecture Notes Reading Homework Lab Notes
lec1  Section2.1    
lec2 Section2.2
Section3.1
Section3.2 		hw1
ToothGrowth.csv		 lab1
Lec3 Section4.1
Section4.2 		   lab2
 Lec4 Section6.1
Section6.2

 hw2  NOTE: DUEDATE is

OCT13, TUESDAY

 lab3
 Lec5 Section6.3
Section6.4		    lab4
lec6 Section7.1
Section7.2
Section7.3		  hw3 complete   
 lec7 Section7.4
Section7.5
  

lab5

lab5-answer
lec8 Chapter 6 in
Intro to probability book 		   
 lec9 chapter8
Chapter8&9 in Intro to probability book 		   lab7
 lec10  chapter9  hw4  lab8
 lec11  chapter9  

 
lec12  chapter10  

 
lec13  chapter10  hw5

 

 Download intro to probability book
Midterm From 2008 
Midterm From 2008 Solution

Previous Final Exams (For you to use as extra exercise only. There is no guarantee that your exam will be similar to previous years' exams.).

2005Final.  2005Final Solution 2006Final 2006Final Solution

 

Data Sets

lowbwt.dta   mortality.dta   Panama.dta   Sweden.dta   dthrate.csv  ectopic.dta  bdata2.rda  random.dta organ.dta organ_two.dta sids.dta