Biostatistics (STAT:3510, Bognar)

Homework

H1 (Due 9/1): 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2.1, 2.2.7 (also make a stem-and-leaf plot), 2.3.5, 2.3.7, 2.4.1 (also make a boxplot), 2.6.4, 2.6.7

H2 (Due 9/8):
In textbook: 3.3.2, 3.3.4
In notes.ch3.pdf: 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.13, 3.14

H3 (Due 9/15):
In textbook: 3.3.3, 3.3.5
In notes.ch3.pdf: 3.10, 3.11, 3.19, 3.29, 3.31

H4 (Due 9/22):
In textbook: 3.5.1, 3.5.4
In notes.ch4.pdf: 4.3(a,b,c,d), 4.4(a,b,c), 4.7(a,b)

H5 (Due 9/29):
In textbook: 3.5.5, 3.5.6, 3.5.9, 3.5.10, 3.6.5, 3.6.6, 3.6.11, 3.6.12
In notes.ch4.pdf: 4.16(a,b,c,d,e)

H6 (Due 10/6):
In textbook: 4.3.5(a,c,e), 4.3.8, 4.3.13, 4.3.14, 4.3.15, 4.3.16, 4.3.17 (a,b)
In notes.ch4.pdf: 4.14 (skip (e))

H7 (Due 10/13):
In textbook: 5.2.8, 5.2.9 (assume $n=25$ is large enough for CLT), 5.2.14
In notes.ch6.pdf: 6.8 (a,b,c,d), 6.9 (a,b,c,d)
In notes.ch7.pdf: 7.3 (a,e), 7.4 (a,b,h,i), 7.10

H8 (Due 10/20):
In textbook: 6.3.3**, 6.3.4**, 6.3.6**, 6.3.10**
In notes.ch7.pdf: 7.8 (a,e), 7.9 (a,b), 7.3 (b,c,d), 7.4 (d,e,f,g)
** = assume "standard deviation" is the sample standard deviation "s"

H9 (Due 10/27):
In notes.ch7.pdf: 7.6, 7.8 (b,c,d,f; hint $\bar{x}=6.4$ and $s=0.4472$), 7.9 (c,d,e,f,g,h), 7.11

H10 (Due 11/3):
In notes.ch8.pdf: 8.2, 8.3, 8.5, 8.6, 8.8

H11 (Due 11/10):
In textbook: 9.2.14 (find the Wald 95% CI and Agresti-Coull 95% CI)
In notes.ch9.pdf: 9.4, 9.9, 9.14
In notes.ch10.pdf: 10.4, 10.6

H12 (Due 11/17):
In textbook: 9.4.1 ($H_0: P(W)=12/16, P(Y)=3/16, P(G)=1/16$), 9.4.13 ($H_0: P(R)=1/4, P(P)=1/2, P(W)=1/4$)
In notes.ch10.pdf: 10.9

H🙂 (Due 11/24):
Eat yum-yums

H13 (Due 12/1):
11.4.5 (Answer the following only: Test $H_0:\mu_1=\cdots=\mu_5$ vs. $H_a:\mathrm{not}\ H_0$ at $\alpha=0.10$ significance level, find $p-$value too)
11.4.6 (Answer the following only: Test $H_0:\mu_1=\mu_2=\mu_3$ vs. $H_a:\mathrm{not}\ H_0$ at $\alpha=0.01$ significance level, find $p-$value too; do all Bonferroni pairwise comparisons)


Exams

Exam 1: e1.summary.3510.f23.txt

Exam 2: e2.summary.3510.f23.txt

Exam 3: e3.summary.3510.f23.txt

Probability Distribution Applets

Discrete Distributions
Continuous Distributions
Statistical Inference

Course Links

Syllabus

Low Birth Weight Analysis

Statistical Tables (Z, t, and chi-square tables)

Old Faithful Dataset

R Project Homepage

CLT.die.fair.pdf, CLT.die.loaded.pdf

corr-scatter.pdf

Teaching Assistants

Uthpala Gunathilake (MS candidate, Actuarial Science), email
Office: 350 SH, Office Hours: 2:30-3:30 MWF

A11: 7:30-8:20 Tu (3 SH)
A12: 7:30-8:20 Th (3 SH)
A13: 8:30-9:20 Tu (3 SH)
A14: 8:30-9:20 Th (3 SH)

Yang Cao (MS candidate, Actuarial Science), email
Office: 350 SH, Office Hours: 1:30-3:00 TuTh

A15: 11:00-11:50 Tu (3 SH)
A16: 11:00-11:50 Th (3 SH)
A17: 12:30-1:20 Tu (65 VAN)
A18: 12:30-1:20 Th (65 VAN)

Contact Information

E-Mail: matthew-bognar@uiowa.edu
Office: 358 SH
Office Hours: 10:30-Noon W, 1:30-3:00 Th