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“The country is hungry for information; everything of a statistical character,
or even a statistical appearance, is taken up with an eagerness that is almost
pathetic; the community have not yet learned to be half skeptical
and critical enough in respect to such statements”
(General Francis A. Walker, Superintendent of the 1870 census)

Posted 10-13-2008: Exam I Due Monday October 27, 2008 (pdf, 12 pp)

Posted Friday October 10, 2008
Week 7. October 13-17, 2008 (Click here)

Meeting Room for Monday October 13 is EITHER of the most recent 2 rooms


Welcome to BE540, Introduction to Biostatistics!
Fall 2008
Instructor: Carol Bigelow

This course is the first of a two semester sequence (PubHlth 540 and PubHlth 640) of introductory biostatistics. The focus in this first course is statistical literacy. It begins with a review of the ideas of natural variation. From this perspective, the course is an introduction to the biostatistical tools for understanding systematic versus chance variation. Topics include: graphical and numerical description, random sampling and sampling distributions, confidence interval estimation, and the basics of statistical hypothesis testing.

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