Math 225
Introduction to Biostatistics
Course notes from past years (organized according to an obsolete textbook.)
Introduction
Chapter 1
Section 1.3: Measurement and Measurement Scales
Section 1.4: The Simple Random Sample
Chapter 2
Section 2.3: Grouped Data - The Frequency Distribution
Section 2.4: Descriptive Statistics - Measures of Central Tendency
Section 2.5: Descriptive Statistics - Measures of Dispersion
Chapter 3
Section 3.3: Elementary Properties of Probability
Chapter 4
Section 4.2: Probability Distributions of Discrete Random Variables
Section 4.3: The Binomial Distribution
Section 4.5: Continuous Probability Distributions
Section 4.6: The Normal Distribution
Section 4.7: Normal Distribution Applications
Chapter 5
Section 5.2: Sampling Distributions
Section 5.3: Distribution of the Sample Mean
Section 5.4: Distribution of the Difference Between Two Sample Means
Section 5.5: Distribution of the Sample Proportion
Section 5.6: Distribution of the Difference Between Two Sample Proportions
Chapter 6
Section 6.2: Confidence interval for a Population Mean
Section 6.3: The t distribution
Section 6.4: Confidence Interval for the Difference Between Two Population Means
Section 6.5: Confidence Interval for a Population Proportion
Section 6.6: Confidence Interval for the Difference Between Two Population Proportions
Chapter 7
Section 7.2: Hypothesis Testing: A Single Population Mean
Section 7.3: Hypothesis Testing: The Difference Between Two Population Means
Section 7.4: Paired Comparisons
Section 7.5: Hypothesis Testing: A Single Population Proportion
Section 7.6: Hypothesis Testing: The Difference Between Two Population Proportions
Chapter 8
ANOVA
Chapter 9
Regression
Last modified: September 8, 1997
Bret Larget, larget@mathcs.duq.edu