BMED 602 - Biomedical Statistics

Biology 602 - Biomedical Statistics, Fall, 2024

alaemmer@gmu.edu

Contact information, office hours, etc. can be found here.

NOTICES:

The final exam is scheduled for Wednesday, December 11^th at 1:30 p.m. You will have two hours for the final.

Here is some more specific advice on how to identify the correct proceedures to use (read the previous part first): In pdf.

And here are the answers to some of the problems in chapter 13 (see previous link).

A graphic outline of when to use the various tests we've learned about during the semsester. Available here.

PLEASE - as for the two sample guide (below), you still need to use common sense!

A graphic outline of when to use which two-sample test is available in html or pdf.
Please note - it's only a guide, you still need to use common sense!

Important: The t-test for unpooled variances is the same as Welch's t-test. The t-test for pooled variances is the same as the classic t-test.

Lecture notes:

Notes are organized by topic, not by date (we will cover the material in this order).

Lecture topic:	Notes:	Comments:

Introduction/course policies/syllabus	pdf
Descriptive statistics	pdf
Graphical methods	pdf
Samples, Estimates & random sampling	pdf
Probability	pdf
Probability distributions	pdf
Odds and ends	pdf
Sampling distributions and estimation	pdf
Interval estimates	pdf
Hypothesis testing I (!!)	pdf
Hypothesis testing II	pdf
Assumptions	pdf
Violated assumptions!	pdf
Violated assumptions II: other paired tests	pdf
One sided tests	pdf
ANOVA - background	pdf
ANOVA - the basics	pdf
Kruskal-Wallis test	pdf
More complicated ANOVA designs	pdf
Chi-square goodness of fit	pdf
Contingency tables	pdf
Odds rations, relative risk, and Fisher's exact test	pdf
Introduction to regression (correlation)	pdf
Regression I	pdf
Regression II	pdf
More complicated statistics (overview only)	pdf

Questions? Please contact me at: alaemmer@gmu.edu