Course Slides, Case Studies and Summaries
Review Day
Test Day
Regular Session
 
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   1st June Session 0.1 – Overview Session 1.1   | 
  
   3rd  Session 1.2  | 
 
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   8th  Session 1.3  | 
  
   10th  Session 1.4  | 
 
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   15th  Session 1.5   | 
  
   18th   Open Review Day  | 
 
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   22nd    The First Hourly  | 
  
   24th    Session 2.1  | 
 
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   29th  Session 2.2  | 
  
   1st July Session 2.3  | 
 
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   6th   Session 
  2.4  | 
  
   8th   Session 2.5  | 
 
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   13th    Open Review Day  | 
  
   15th   The Second Hourly  | 
 
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   20th    Comprehensive Review Day  | 
  
   22nd   Comprehensive Review Day  | 
 
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   27th Comprehensive Final Examination  | 
  
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Course Slides,
Case Studies and Summaries
Course Begins
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   1st June Session 0.1 - Overview Session 1.1 - Probability   | 
  
   3rd  Session 1.2 - Probability, Perfect
  Samples, Random Variables  | 
 
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   8th  Session 1.3 - Probability Rules, Rare
  Events  | 
  
   10th  Session 1.4 - Conditional Probability,
  Clinical Trials  | 
 
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   15th  Session 1.5 – Clinical Trials, Sample
  Surveys, Design Faults  | 
  
   17th   Open Review Day  | 
 
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   22nd    The First Hourly  | 
  
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Sessions: Part One Summer
1st  / Session 0.1
Course
Overview
1st  / Session 1.1
Probability
 
ÜSummaryÛ Updated 2nd June 2009
3rd / Session 1.2
Probability, Perfect Samples
Counts,
Proportions, Percentages Slides
Random Variables
 
ÜSummaryÛ Updated 3rd June 2009
8th / Session 1.3
Probability Rules
Rare Events
 
ÜSummaryÛ Updated 8th June 2009
10th / Session 1.4
Conditional Probability
Yet More Conditional Probability
How to compute a Conditional Probability
Conditional Probability
Slides
An Application of Conditional
Probability: Disease Screening
Clinical Trials
History
presents concise history of the Clinical Trial
Clinical Trial Design Overview
Clinical Trial
Subjects Bill of Rights 
Supplemental
Clinical Trial Notes 
Case Study - Taxol and End Stage Cervical
Cancer
Case Study - Gastric Adenocarcinoma
Case Study - Myocardial Infarction
Case Study - Traumatic Brain Injury
Case Study - Carbon Monoxide Intoxication
Case Study - Ocular
Hypertension
Case Study -
Diabetes Insipidus
 
ÜSummaryÛ  Updated 10th
June 2009
15th / Session 1.5
Clinical Trials
Case Study - Parkinson's Disease
Glossary
defines terms associated with Clinical Trials 
Design Faults – Clinical Trials
Clinical Trial Design Faults
 
Gardasil:
Prophylactic HPV Vaccine
 
Seven Steps to Understanding a Clinical Trial
Avastin
and Choice of Endpoints: Overall Survival versus Progression-free Survival
 
Sample Surveys
Sample Survey
Design Hypermedia Resources
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/horp/classes/api214/Intro_Lecture.ppt
http://www.myhistory.org/historytopics/articles/public_opinion_polling.html
http://www.pbs.org/fmc/segments/progseg7.htm
http://www.hannibal.net/stories/101998/Pollstersrecall.html
http://www.hbstaff.com/political.htm
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~jhutter/406/lectureoutline.doc
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tonya/309m/class/paper4/bowser/opinpoll.htm
http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas/sampling01.htm
http://www.bartleby.com/65/po/poll.html
http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~rgould/m12s01/survey.pdf
http://wwwstat.ucla.edu/~rgould/m12s01/survey.pdf
http://www.kellogg.nwu.edu/faculty/weber/decs-439b/A_Primer_on_Polls.htm
http://fly.hiwaay.net/~jmcmulle/450polls.htm
http://stat.tamu.edu/~amang/307/J307ch01.pdf
 
http://people-press.org/reports/
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=12
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=89
Supplemental Sample
Survey Notes 
glossary
gives a glossary of terms used in Sample Survey Designs. 
Design Faults – Sample Surveys
Sample Survey Design Faults
 
The Pew Survey on Religion in the
US - An example of a good survey 
An
IRS Survey on Taxpayer Attitudes on Taxes - An example of a dubious survey
 
ÜSummaryÛ Updated 15th June 2009
17th / Open Review Day
Preparing for the First Summer Hourly
22nd / The
First Hourly
The First Hourly Examination
Part Two
 
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   24th    Session 2.1 – Descriptive Statistics,
  Summary Intervals  | 
 
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   29th  Session 2.2 – Confidence Estimation of
  the Population Mean  | 
  
   1st July Session 2.3 – Confidence Estimation of
  the Population Proportion, The Hypothesis Test  | 
 
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   6th    Session 
  2.4 – Hypothesis Test, Population Median  | 
  
   8th    Session 2.5 – Hypothesis Test,
  Categorical Goodness-of-Fit  | 
 
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   13th   Open Review Day  | 
  
   15th   The Second Hourly  | 
 
 
25th / Session 2.1
The Calculator
Making Friends with Your Calculator
http://www.geocities.com/calculatorhelp/ti83
http://www.lrc.edu/mat/ti83_statistics.htm
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~khalman/calculator.htm
http://east.chclc.org/russo/ti3801.htm
http://www.willamette.edu/~mjaneba/help/TI-82-stats.htm
http://faculty.purduenc.edu/jkuhn/courses/previous/workbooks/301/lab1.pdf
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/arme210/TI83.pdf
Descriptive
Statistics
Location -
Measures of Location in Samples and Populations
Case Study 3.1
– Serum Creatinine
Case Study 3.2
– Barrels of Monkeys
Summary
Intervals – Tchebysheff’s Inequalities and the
Empirical Rule
Case Study 4 -
Diseased Monkeys
Case Study 4.1
– Additional Case TBA
 
29th / Session 2.2
Confidence
Estimation of the Population Mean
Families gives perspectives on Families of Samples and Families of
Estimates
Family2 gives yet more fun
insights on Families of Samples, Intervals, Errors…
bell curves and
sample means gives insights on the approximate behavior of sample means. 
a
few notes about statistical inference
Verification of the 95% Confidence Principle
mean tables gives
tables for means and proportions intervals and  proportions.
 
1st July / Session 2.3
Confidence Estimation of the Population
Proportion
proportions
gives different viewpoints on the proportion in Statistics
The
Hypothesis Test and Decision Theory
The idea of a
statistical test is explored here.
The idea of a
statistical test is further clarified
 
6th  / Session 2.4
Hypothesis Test – Population Median
median presents
the idea of the Sign Test of the Median
median test presents
the Sign Test of the Median
median table
presents p-values for the median test
median pictures
a graphical view of the sign test
 
9th / Session 2.5
Hypothesis
Test – Categorical Goodness-of-Fit
good tables give
tables for the goodness-of-fit test
Verification of the 5% testing principle
Verification of the 5% testing principle -
Fall 2007 Update
Verification of the 5% testing principle -
Spring 2008 Update
 
13th  / Open Review Day
Preparing for the Second Summer Hourly
15th / The
Second Hourly
The Second Hourly Examination
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The Endgame
 
 
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   20th   Comprehensive Review Day  | 
  
   22nd  Comprehensive Review Day  | 
 
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   27th Comprehensive Final Examination  | 
  
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Preparing for the Comprehensive Final
July
20th / Open Review Day for
Final                    
22nd / Open Review Day for
Final
27th / Final Examination
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Course Ends