MDG5108 Semester 1 2004/05

Instructor: Yap Von Bing
Email: stayapvb@nus.edu.sg
Lectures: Tuesday 4-6 LT 29 from Sept 14 to Nov 9
Tutorial: Saturday 10-12 MD3 #02-12 from Sept 25 to Nov 13
Examination: Tuesday Nov 30 2-4 LT29
Office hours: Thursday 9-11 S16 #06-105 or by appointment

Course plan

Lecture 1 (Sept 14) Design of Experiments

Lecture 2 (Sept 21) Descriptive Statistics

Lecture 3 (Sept 28) More Descriptive Statistics, Correlation, Regression

Lecture 4 (Oct 5) Regression, Probability

Lecture 5 (Oct 12) Chance Variability

Lecture 6 (Oct 19) Sampling

Lecture 7 (Oct 26) Chance Models, Tests of Significance

Lecture 8 (Nov 2) More Tests of Significance

Lecture 9 (Nov 9) Revision

Notes on the Chi-Square Test (not on examination)

Tutorial 1 (Sept 25) Discuss John Snow's work on cholera.

Tutorial 2 (Oct 2) Datasets: ind, ave, melanoma, serzinc, unicef, and lowbt.

Tutorial 3 (Oct 9) demo.dat

Tutorial 4 (Oct 16) Data: yule. Reading: freedman.

Tutorial 5 (Oct 22 Friday!) We will discuss Tutorial 2, Quiz 1, and the Review Exercises.

References
Statistics 3e Freedman, Pisani and Pruves. Norton & Company, Inc.
Fundamentals of Biostatistics Rosner. Brooks/Cole.
Practical Statistics for Medical Research Altman. Chapman and Hall.

Readings
John Snow (1855) On the Mode of Communication of Cholera
J Berkson (1955) The statistical study of association between smoking and lung cancer Proc May Clin 30 319-48.
EC Hammond & D Horn (1954) The relationship between human smoking habits and death rates: a follow-up study of 187,766 men JAMA 155 1316-28.