BTRY 3010 / NTRES 3130 / STSCI 2200 – Biological Statistics I
Fall 4 Credits

 

 

 

Webactive Syllabus

 

Lecture:

 

 

T and Th 10:10 - 11:25

Bradfield 101

Labs:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LAB 01 12:20P-- 1:10P (M) Mann 30B
LAB 02 1:25P-- 2:15P (M) Mann 30B
LAB 03 2:30P-- 3:20P (M) Mann 30B
LAB 04 3:35P-- 4:25P (M) Mann 30B


LAB 05 2:30P-- 3:20P (W) Mann 30B
LAB 06 3:35P-- 4:25P (W) Mann 30B

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

 

  

Teaching Assistants:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
David Clement : Tue 1:30 - 2:30 pm in Comstock B104
dyc24@cornell.edu :

 

Muting Wan : Wed 5:15 - 6:15 pm in Comstock B104
mw545@cornell.edu:

 

 

Textbooks:

 

 

Devore and Berk (D&B 2007)

Modern Mathematical Statistics with Applications

 

 

Software:

 

Splus software ($15)

R software

R manual (Good for Splus too!)

Simpler R manual


Lecture

Date

Day

Topic

Readings

Assignments Due

1

Aug 27

Th

 

Introduction/Overview

D&B 1

 

2

Sep 01

T

 

Visualizing Data

D&B 1

 

 

 

3

Sep 03

Th

 

Probability

D&B 2

 

 

4

Sep 08

T

 

Discrete Probability

D&B 3

 

5

Sep 10

Th

 

Continuous Probabilty

D&B 4

 

HW1

 

6

Sep 15

T

Sampling Distributions

D&B 6

 

7

Sep 17

Th

 

Population Estimates

D&B 7

HW2

8

Sep 22

T

 

Review

 

 

Sep 24

Th

 

Exam 1

Exam1 In Class

9

Sep 29

T

 

Statistical Intervals

D&B 8

 

 

10 

Oct 01

Th

 

Hypothesis Testing

D&B 9

 

 

 

11

Oct 06

T

 

Bootstrap Resampling

D&B 8.5

 

12

Oct 08

Th

 

Two Sample Hypothesis Testing

D&B 10  

HW3

 

Oct 13

T

 

Fall Break

 

13

Oct 15

Th

 

Linear Regression I

D&B 12

HW4

 

 

14

Oct 20

T

 

Linear Regression II

D&B 12

 

15

Oct 22

Th

 

Review

HW5

 

 

 

16

Oct 27

T

 

Goodness of Fit and Contingency Tables

D&B 13

Oct 29

Th

 

Exam 2

Exam 2 Take-home due

17

Nov 03

T

 

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) I

D&B 11

 

18

Nov 05

Th

 

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) II

D&B 11

19

Nov 10

T

 

Multiple Comparisons

D&B 11

20

Nov 12

Th

 

Nonparametric Statistics Theory

D&B 14.1-14.2

HW6

 

21

Nov 17

T

 

Nonparametric Statistics Examples

D&B 14

22

Nov 19

Th

 

Bayesian Statistics I

D&B 14.4

HW7

 

23

Nov 24

T

 

Bayesian Statistics II

D&B 14.4

Nov 26

Th

Thanksgiving Holiday

24

Dec 01

T

 

Communicating Results

HW8

 

25

Dec 03

Th

 

Review

 

 

Final exam handed out today, due back by 11:30 AM December 16th,

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% , Class participation 5%, which sums up to 105%.

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