Babak Shahbaba, Biostatistics with R

 
 

Objectives

  1. 1.Understanding the uses and limitations of statistical methods

  2. 2.Learning how to translate scientific questions to statistical problems

  3. 3.Using statistical methods to answer scientific questions

  4. 4.Learning how to explore data and perform basic statistical analysis

  5. 5.Understanding and interpreting the results of statistical analysis

Errata List

errata.pdf


Solutions to selected exercises

solutions.pdf


Lecture Notes

  1. -Lecture1_Overview.pdf

  2. -Lecture2_DataExploration.pdf

  3. -Lecture3_ExploringRelationships.pdf

  4. -Lecture4_Probability.pdf

  5. -Lecture5_RVandDistribution.pdf

  6. -Lecture6_Estimation.pdf

  7. -Lecture7_Hypothesis.pdf

  8. -Lecture8_RelationHypothesis.pdf


Datasets

These are some of the datasets I used as examples in the book. Please refer to the book for the original sources of these datasets.

  1. -Survival.txt

  2. -saltBP.txt

  3. -neural.txt

  4. -snoreData.txt

  5. -BodyTemperature.txt

  6. -AsthmaLOS.txt

  7. -birthwt.txt

  8. -Protein.txt

  9. -Platelet.txt

  10. -calcium.txt


Here is the zip file that contains all the above datasets: Data_Biostat_with_R.zip

For the remaining examples in the book, the datasets are directly available through R.


Sample Exam Questions

A sample of questions for the final exam:

finalExam-sample.pdf

finalExam-sample-key.pdf


Midterm exam 2013:

midTermExam2013.pdf

midTermExam2013-solution.pdf


Midterm exam 2012:

midTermExam2012.pdf

midtermSolutionSp12.pdf