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PubHlth 540 - Fall 2009
Introduction to Biostatistics
Biostatistics and Epidemiology
UMass Amherst
Instructor: Carol Bigelow




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Announcements are posted in reverse calendar order

Posted Sunday October 11, 2009
Exam I due Monday October 26, 2009 (pdf, 12 pp)

Posted Wednesday October 7, 2009
Practice Test for Exam I (questions) (solutions)

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Tuesday October 6, 2009
corrected on Wed 10-7-09 Some help with multiplication and addition of probabilities (pdf, 2 pp)

Posted Tuesday September 29, 2009
Unit 2 practice problem solutions have been reposted. The correction is to exercise #6 (pdf, 5 pp)
The solutions to the unit 2 quiz have also been reposted. Correction is to question #1e (pdf, 3 pp)

Posted Thursday September 17, 2009
Unit 1 practice problems have been reposted. The correction is to page 3 (pdf, 4 pp)
The solutions have been reposted. Corrections are to pages 9, 12, and 13 (pdf, 18 pp)

Posted Wednesday September 9, 2009
The course notes for 1. Summarizing Data have been edited slightly and reposted (pdf, 46 pp). If you have already printed out a hard copy, there is NO need to print it out again. The edits are in the following sections: (1) frequency polygon (see p 18), (2) Box and whisker plot (see p 25), (3) variance and standard deviation (see p 36-37, and (4) standard deviation versus standard error (see p 40-44).

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