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


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Summarizing Data

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Normal Distribution

Estimation

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Estimation
(1) PubHlth 540 2009, (2) additional reading, (3) illustrative applets, (4) calculators (5) computer illustrations.


(1) PubHlth 540 - 2009
  
Lecture Notes
 (pdf, 69 pp)
Text (Kirkwood and Sterne) chapter 6, pp 50-57
  
Text (Kirkwood and Sterne) chapter 7, pp 58-61
  
Practice Problems due Monday November 30, 2009
 (pdf, 4 pp)
Practice Problems SOLUTIONS
 (pdf, 10 pp)
new 11-15-09 Practice Quiz - Problems
 (pdf, 1 pp)
new 11-15-09 Practice Quiz - Solutions
 (pdf, 3 pp)


(2) Additional Reading
  
(Source: Penn State Statistical Education Resource Kit) Concepts of Confidence Intervals
 (html)
(Source: HTO Davies, PhD, Univ. of St Andres) What are Confidence Intervals
(html)
(Source: Stat Trek AP Statistics Tutorial) Confidence Intervals
(html)
(Source: Katie Pollard, PhD. UC Davis) Elementary Statistics Fall 2007 Lecture 20- CI for Mean
(html)
   


(3) Illustrative Applets
  
(Source: WH Freeman) Confidence Interval Applet
(html)
(Source: West Virginia State University) Confidence Interval Applet
(html)
(Source: David Lane) Confidence Interval applet
(html)
   
   

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(4) Calculators
  
(Source: David Lane, HyperStat Online) Normal DistributionCalculator - Scroll down to 2nd calculator to obtain quantiles for confidence interval calculations
(html)
(Source: Texas A&M) Student t Distribution calculator
(html)
(Source:  Texas A&M) Chi Square Distribution Calculator
(html)
(Source:  Texas A&M) F Distribution Calculator
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(5) Computer Illustrations
  
 
 
 

 

 
 

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