BTRY 301 / NTRES 313– Biological Statistics I
Fall 4 Credits

 

 

 

Webactive Syllabus

 

Lecture:

 

 

T and Th 10:10 - 11:25

231 Warren Hall

Labs:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LAB 01 1:25P-- 2:15P (M) Warren B60
LAB 02 2:30P-- 3:20P (M) Warren B60
LAB 03 3:35P-- 4:25P (M) Warren B60

LAB 04 12:20P-- 1:10P (M) Warren B60
LAB 05 2:30P-- 3:20P (W) Warren B60
LAB 06 3:35P-- 4:25P (W) Warren B60

 
   
Instructor: Dr. Patrick J. Sullivan
  214 Fernow
  255-8213
  pjs31@cornell.edu
   
Office Hours: After class or by appointment.

 

  

Teaching Assistants:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Kathryn Barger : Wednesday 2:30-3:30
kjb34@cornell.edu : Caldwell 250

 

Kirsten Eilertson : Tuesday 3:00-4:00
kee23@cornell.edu : Warren 232

 

Kevin Rubenstein : Wednesday 3:30-4:30
kbr7@cornell.edu : Caldwell 250

 

Andrew Weinstein : Tuesday 11:30-12:30
alw49@cornell.edu : Warren 232

 

 

 

Textbooks:

 

 

Triola and Triola (T&T 2006)

Biostatistics for the Biological and Health Sciences

 

 

Software:

 

Splus software

R software

R manual (Good for Splus too!)


Lecture

Date

Day

Topic

Readings

What’s due?

1

Aug 23

Th

 

Introduction/Overview

T&T 1

 

2

Aug 28

T

 

Visualizing Data

T&T 2

 

3

Aug 30

Th

 

Probability

T&T 3

HW1

4

Sep 04

T

 

Discrete Probability

T&T 4

5

Sep 06

Th

 

Splus Review

HW2 

6

Sep 11

T

The Normal Distribution

T&T 5

7

Sep 13

Th

 

Population Estimates

T&T 6

HW3  

8

Sep 18

T

 

Review

 

Sep 20

Th

 

Exam 1

Exam 1

9

Sep 25

T

 

Hypothesis Testing I

T&T 7

10 

Sep 27

Th

 

Hypothesis Testing II

T&T 7

 

11

Oct 02

T

 

Bootstrap Resampling

12

Oct 04

Th

 

Two Sample Hypothesis Testing

T&T 8  

HW4 

Oct 09

T

 

Fall Break

 

13

Oct 11

Th

 

Linear Regression I

T&T 9

HW5

14

Oct 16

T

 

Linear Regression II

T&T 9

15

Oct 18

Th

 

Review

HW6 

16

Oct 23

T

 

Goodness of Fit and Contingency Tables

T&T 10

Oct 25

Th

 

Exam 2

Exam 2   

17

Oct 30

T

 

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) I

T&T 11

18

Nov 01

Th

 

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) II

T&T 11

19

Nov 06

T

 

Multiple Comparisons

T&T 11

20

Nov 08

Th

 

Nonparametric Statistics I

T&T 12

HW7 

21

Nov 13

T

 

Nonparametric Statistics II

T&T 12

22

Nov 15

Th

 

Bayesian Statistics I

HW8

23

Nov 20

T

 

Bayesian Statistics II

Nov 22

Th

Thanksgiving Holiday

24

Nov 27

T

 

Communicating Results

HW9

25

Nov 29

Th

 

Review

 

 

Final exam handed out today, due back by

Wednesday

Dec 12 11:30 AM

Room 1198 Comstock  

Homeworks: Handed out on Thursday due back the following Thursday.
Lab Projects: Handed out at beginning of Lab due next Lab.

Grade: Homeworks 20%, Lab Projects 20%, Exam 1 20%, Exam 2 20%, Exam 3 20% , Clicker class participation 5%, which sums up to 105%.

Grade is your total times 4.0, maximum grade is 105%x4.0=4.2