COURSE
SYLLABUS
College of
Arts and Sciences
Department of
Mathematics
Effective
Date: Winter 2005-06
Course: STAT 156 Name: Biostatistics 1
Credit hours:
4 Lecture
hours/week: 4 Lab hours/week: 0
Instructor: Staff
Usual
student level: First, second, or
third year
Course
required of students in: Pharmacy
Course
frequency per year: Fall, Winter, and Spring
Average
enrollment per year: 275
This
course has a prerequisite: MATH 120
or equivalent
This course can be used as a prerequisite for: STAT 256 and 281; STAT 390 (perhaps with instructor permission)
Catalog Description: Basic
statistical techniques with emphasis on applications to biological and health
sciences.
Course
Objectives: To introduce the students
to data analysis, concepts of probability, and fundamentals of statistical
inference.
Textbook: “Biostatistics” by Daniel (Wiley: customized
or 8th edition)
Outline
of content follows: (see attached)
Course Outline
STAT
156
Title:
Biostatistics 1
Introduction to Statistics
Descriptive statistics (including
graphical methods)
Concepts of probability (including
binomial and normal distributions)
Sampling
distributions
Point estimation, confidence
intervals, and hypotheses tests:
for a single mean
for the difference between two means (independent and paired samples)
for the equality
of two variances
Study design
Experimental
vs. observational designs
Completely
randomized vs. randomized block experimental designs
Matched vs. unmatched data
Nonparametric hypotheses
tests:
Wilcoxon
rank-sum test
Wilcoxon
signed-rank test
Sign test
1. In general, emphasis should
be on “statistical reasoning” as opposed to “statistical calculations”.
2. The TI-83 calculator is
required for this course. Please do not
use built-in TI-83 STAT functions to compute confidence intervals or perform
hypothesis tests until after the students have mastered these concepts.