MDG5108 Biostatistics for Basic Research Semester 2 2004/05

MDG5108 Biostatistics for Basic Research
Semester 2 2004/05

Instructor: Yap Von Bing
Email: stayapvb@nus.edu.sg

Midterm: Thursday Mar 17 during Tutorial 5
Examination: Tuesday Apr 26 2-4 LT29
Office hours: Wednesday 9-11 S16 #06-105

Grading Policy

Examination: 50%
Midterm: 25%
Homework: 25%

Course plan

Lecture 1 (Jan 18) Design of Experiments
Lecture 2 (Feb 1) Descriptive Statistics
Lecture 3 (Feb 15) Measurement Error, Correlation, Regression
Lecture 4 (Mar 1) Regression, Probability
Lecture 5 (Mar 8) Chance Variability
Lecture 6 (Mar 15) Estimation
Lecture 7 (Mar 29) Chance Models, Tests of Significance
Lecture 8 (Apr 5) More Tests of Significance
Lecture 9 (Apr 12) Multiple Regression, Analysis of Variance

Tutorial 1 (Feb 3)
--- Discuss RE2: #3, #5, #6, #7.
--- Hand in RE2: #4, #9, #10.
Tutorial 2 (Feb 17)
--- Discuss RE3: #4, #12, RE4: #12, RE5: #9.
--- Hand in RE3: #8, RE4: #10, #11, RE5: #5, #7.
Tutorial 3 (Mar 3)
--- Discuss SRE6: #6, #14, RE8: #11, RE9: #11, RE10: #7, #8.
--- Hand in SRE6: #13, RE9: #4, #10, RE10: #4.
Tutorial 4 (Mar 10)
--- Hand in RE11: #7, RE12: #3, #8, #11, RE13: #4, #5, RE14: #13, RE15: #11.
Tutorial 5 (Mar 27)
--- Hand in RE16: #6, RE17: #5, RE18: #8, #9, RE20: #7, RE21: #4, RE22: #8.
Tutorial 7 (Apr 7)
--- Hand in RE23: #8, #11, RE26: #12.
RE: Review Exercise. SRE: Special Review Exercise.

Textbook

Statistics 3e Freedman, Pisani and Pruves. Norton & Company, Inc. (available in Science Co-op)