Biometry
Stat 412, Fall 2007

Instructor:    Dr. Brian Tissot, VELS 230M, tissot@wsu.ed

Office Hrs:    Tu & Th  10:30-12 or by appointment 546-9611  

Teaching Assistant: Todd Stevenson, VELS 250, tcstevenson@gmail.com

Office Hrs:    M & W 1-2 or by appointment

Texts:             Triola, M. T. and M. F. Triola. 2006. Biostatistics for the biological and health sciences. Addison-Wesley.      

                        Recommended:

                        Ryan, B., Joiner, B and J. Cryer. 2005. MINITAB Handbook, 5^th edition. Brooks/Coles.

 

Classrooms: Lecture: VELS 12; Lab: Minitab: MMC 115; Field: Meet in VELS 12. 

Overview

• Course description

• Course syllabus

• Philosophy of course and writing up assignments

• List of small group projects, 1992-2000

• Course List-Serve

Homework assignments

1. Introduction to MINITAB (see also the MINITAB online manual).
2. Basic statistics & graphing
3. Chi-Square & Contingency analysis
4. Normal distribution
5. T-tests
6. One-way analysis of variance
7. Two-way analysis of variance
8. Linear regression analysis

Handouts/overheads

1. Treeline
2. Turban snail study
3. Random number table
4. Logic of Ecological Experiments by A. J. Underwood (2.6 mb)
5. Comments on Homework assignments -- Todd Stevenson
6. Mathematical proof of the Central Limit Theorem
7. Experimental Design Lecture Notes
8. Talks: Fall 2007

Field assignments

1. Sampling methods
2. Hypothesis testing

Study Guides

1. Midterm 1 (sample MINITAB problems)
2. Midterm 2

Data files: access to all data files

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