STA 210B/ENV 251
Statistics and Data Analysis for
the Biological Sciences
Gathering and Exploring Data
| Date | Item | Topics | Readings |
| September 1 | Overview, Drinking water study | Webout 1, Ch 1, JMP Ch 4 | |
| September 2 | Lab 1 | Introduction to lab and JMP | JMP 1-59 |
| September 3 | Measurements validity and type (cat/ord/num) | ||
| September 8 | Study designs and objectives | Ch 8, S 3.1-2 | |
| September 9 | Lab 2 | Charts and graphs | |
| September 10 | Measurement error and histograms | S 2.1-3 | |
| September 15 | Quantiles, means and variance | S 2.4-6 | |
| September 16 | Lab 3 | Graphical analysis: univariate data | JMP 87-101, 117-20 |
| September 17 | Contingency tables | ||
| September 22 | Correlation and scatterplots | S 13.1-4,6 | |
| September 23 | Lab 4 | Graphical analysis: bivariate data | JMP Ch 8 |
| September 24 | Appropriate use of graphics | ||
| September 29 | Exam 1 | ||
| September 30 | Lab 5 | Explore your own data in JMP,
Review Exam 1 |
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| Ch | – chapter in Samuels |
| S | – section in Samuels |
| JMP | – page or chapter in Sall and Lehmann |
| Webout | – a handout which is available on the Web |
Interpreting Categorical Data
| October 1 | Binomial distribution | Ch. 3 | |
| October 6 | Transition to normal distribution | Ch. 4 | |
| October 7 | Lab 6 | Explore your own data in JMP | |
| October 8 | Estimating proportions and frequencies | S. 5.1-2,5-6 | |
| Due | Project (introduction, description of data) | ||
| October 9-14 | Fall break | ||
| October 15 | Testing a hypothesis and goodness-of-fit | Ch. 10 | |
| October 20 | Comparing two populations | ||
| October 21 | Lab 7 | ||
| October 22 | Testing independence | Ch. 11 | |
| October 27 | Sampling design and surveys | ||
| October 28 | Lab 8 | JMP Ch 9 | |
| October 29 | Appropriate use of tests and discretization | ||
| November 3 | Exam 2 | ||
| November 4 | Lab 9 | Review Exam 2 | |
Interpreting Numerical Data
| November 5 | Estimation of mean and transforming variables | S 5.3-4,
Ch 6, S 2.7 |
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| November 10 | One-sample t-tests | Ch 7 | |
| November 11 | Lab 10 | JMP Ch 5 | |
| November 12 | Two-sample t-test and median test | Ch 7, 9 | |
| November 17 | Linear regression | Ch 13 | |
| November 18 | Lab 11 | JMP Ch 6 | |
| November 19 | Analysis of variance | Ch 12 | |
| November 24 | Multiple comparisons | Ch 14 | |
| November 25-29 | Thanksgiving recess | ||
| December 1 | Analysis of ordinal data | ||
| December 2 | Lab 12 | JMP Ch 7 | |
| December 3 | Appropriate use of tests | ||
Completing the Course
| December 11 | Due | Project (complete) | |
| December 18 | Final exam, 9am - noon | ||