Biostatistics 1
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Schedule

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August 5, 2025

Week Date Les-son Topic TB sections Key Info Slides HTML Slides PDF Slides Notes Exit tix Record-ing Muddy Points
1 09/29 0 Welcome
1 Data collection 1.3
10/01 2 Intro to Data, Summarizing numerical data 1.2, 1.4
R01 Download R and RStudio
R02 R Basics, part 1
10/06 HW 0 due @ 11 pm
2 10/06 3 Defining Probability 2.1
10/08 4 Conditional Probability 2.2
R03 R Basics, part 2
10/09 HW 1 due @ 11 pm
3 10/13 5 Random variables, Binomial distribution 3.1-3.2
R04 Reproducibility, File Organization, and Projects
10/15 6 Normal and Poisson distributions 3.3-3.4
R05 Intro to Quarto, packages, and importing data
10/16 HW 2 due @ 11 pm
4 10/20 6 & R05 Continued lesson 6 and R05 from 10/16: see above links
R06 ggplot , part 1
10/22 7 Data visualization of a single variable 1.5-1.7
8 Data visualization of two variables 1.5-1.7
10/22 Quiz 1 opens @ 3pm
10/23 HW 3 due @ 11 pm
10/26 Quiz 1 closes @11pm
5 10/27 9 Variability in estimates 4.1
10/29
R07 LaTeX in Quarto
10/30 HW 4 due @ 11 pm
6 11/03 10 Confidence Intervals 4.2
11/05 11 Hypothesis Testing 1: Single-sample mean 4.3, 5.1
11/06 HW 5 due @ 11 pm
7 11/10 12 Inference for mean difference from two-sample dependent/paired data (Hypothesis Testing 2) 5.2
R08 Transforming and subetting data with tidyverse
11/12 13 Inference for difference in means from two independent samples (Hypothesis Testing 3) 5.3
R08 Transforming and subetting data with tidyverse
11/12 Quiz 2 opens @ 3pm
11/13 HW 6 due @ 11pm
11/16 Quiz 2 closes @ 11pm
8 11/17
11/19 14 Power and sample size calculations for difference of means 5.4
11/20 HW 7 due @ 11 pm
9 11/24 15 Inference for a single proportion or difference in proportions 8.1-8.2
11/26 No class
10 11/30 16 Chi-squared tests, Fishers exact test 8.3-8.4
17 Comparing Means with ANOVA 5.5
12/02 19 Non-parametric tests Other TB
R09 Summarizing data with tidyverse and Table 1
12/03 HW 8 due 11 pm
11 12/07 18 Simple Linear Regression 6.1-6.4
12/07 Quiz 3 opens @ 3pm
12/09 Class if needed
12/10 Optional HW 9 due 11 pm
12/12 Quiz 3 closes @ 11pm