Pharmacy 2012 Biostatistics component

Winter 2020

“Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write”
― Samuel S. Wilks

The page contains links to notes for the lectures and to assignments. Lecture pages will be added and modified as we proceed through the term.

Course Syllabus

Lecture Notes

January 7 - Introduction to Biostatistics

A great short introduction to medical statistics by Aranghan Lingham

January 14 - Confidence Interval and Hypothesis Test

The meaning of the p-value in statistical tests

January 21 - Comparison of Two Means

January 28 - Comparison of Two Proportions

February 4 - Probability

February 11 - Midterm exam

February 25 (2 hours) - Odds Ratio and Relative Risks

        - Inferences for Counts in Contingency Tables

        Appendix: review of logarithms

March 3 (2 hours) - Correlation and Simple Linear Regression

March 10 - Power and Sample Size

March 31 - One-way Analysis of Variance

April 7 - Final exam review

- A nice summary of basic statistics formulas and a quick guide for inference methods copied from the back cover pages of DeVeaux, Velleman, Bock, Vukov and Wong: Stats: data and models. 3rd ed. North York: Pearson; 2018. Note: this PDF file does not include all topics and formulas introduced in our lectures.

Assignments

Assignment 1, due January 21 at beginning of class.

    (Note: As of January 16, assignment 1 due date is extended to January 28 at beginning of class.)

       Solutions

Assignment 2, due February 4 at beginning of class.

Solutions

Assignment 3, due March 10 at beginning of class.

Solutions

Assignment 4, due March 31 at beginning of class.

Solutions

Tables

Chi square tables