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

8th

Session 1.3

10th

Session 1.4

15th

Session 1.5

18th 

Open Review Day

22nd  

The First Hourly

24th  

Session 2.1

29th

Session 2.2

1st July

Session 2.3

6th 

Session  2.4

8th 

Session 2.5

13th   

Open Review Day

15th 

The Second Hourly

20th  

Comprehensive Review Day

22nd 

Comprehensive Review Day

27th

Comprehensive Final Examination

 

 

Course Slides, Case Studies and Summaries

Course Begins

M

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1st June

Session 0.1 - Overview

Session 1.1 - Probability

3rd

Session 1.2 - Probability, Perfect Samples, Random Variables

8th

Session 1.3 - Probability Rules, Rare Events

10th

Session 1.4 - Conditional Probability, Clinical Trials

15th

Session 1.5 – Clinical Trials, Sample Surveys, Design Faults

17th 

Open Review Day

22nd  

The First Hourly

 

Sessions: Part One Summer

 

1st  / Session 0.1

Course Overview

 

 

1st  / Session 1.1

Probability

Probability

 

Case Study 1.1

 

Ellsberg's Urns I

Ellsberg's Urns II

 

ÜSummaryÛ Updated 2nd June 2009

 

 

3rd / Session 1.2

Probability, Perfect Samples

Some Formulas

Counts, Proportions, Percentages Slides

Perfect Sample Slides

 

Case Study 1.2.1

Case Study 1.2.2

 

Experiment

Proportions

 

A Fair Three Sided Die

Case Study 1.5

 

Random Variables

 

Random Variable

A Pair of Dice

 

ÜSummaryÛ Updated 3rd June 2009

 

 

8th / Session 1.3

Probability Rules

 

Events and Probability Rules

Rules Demo I - A Fair d6

Color Sequence Experiment

 

Case Study 1.7

Case Study 1.8

Case Study 1.9

 

Rare Events

 

Rare Event Approach

Sample Size and Probability

 

Case Study 1.10

Case Study 1.10A

 

ÜSummaryÛ Updated 8th June 2009

 

 

10th / Session 1.4

Conditional Probability

 

Conditional Probability

Yet More Conditional Probability

How to compute a Conditional Probability

 

Conditional Probability Slides

 

A Demonstration - Three Dice

 

Case Study 1.11

Case Study 1.12

Case Study 1.13

 

An Application of Conditional Probability: Disease Screening

 

Clinical Trials

 

History presents concise history of the Clinical Trial

 

Clinical Trial Design Overview

Steps / Clinical Trial

 

A Primer for Vaccines

A Primer for Cancer

 

Clinical Trial Subjects Bill of Rights

Supplemental Clinical Trial Notes

 

FDA Trials

 

Case Study - AIDSVAX

Case Study - Taxol and End Stage Cervical Cancer

Case Study - Gastric Adenocarcinoma

Case Study - Preeclampsia I

Case Study - Preeclampsia II

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 - TheraVaxHIV      

Case Study - Pick's Disease

Case Study - Parkinson's Disease

Case Study - Herceptin

 

Informed Consent

Glossary defines terms associated with Clinical Trials

About Placebo


Design Faults – Clinical Trials

 

Clinical Trial Design Faults

Case Study 8

 

The ACCORD Study

What About Vioxx?

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

 

Pew Center Links

http://people-press.org/

http://people-press.org/reports/

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=12

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=89

 

Sample Survey Design Outline

Survey Sampling

Respondent Rights

 

Supplemental Sample Survey Notes

Sampling Designs

glossary gives a glossary of terms used in Sample Survey Designs.

 

Design Faults – Sample Surveys

 

Sample Survey Design Faults

Case Study 7 

 

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

29th

Session 2.2 – Confidence Estimation of the Population Mean

1st July

Session 2.3 – Confidence Estimation of the Population Proportion, The Hypothesis Test

6th  

Session  2.4 – Hypothesis Test, Population Median

8th  

Session 2.5 – Hypothesis Test, Categorical Goodness-of-Fit

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

Dispersion  

 

Case Study 3.1 – Serum Creatinine

Case Study 3.2 – Barrels of Monkeys

 

Summary Intervals – Tchebysheff’s Inequalities and the Empirical Rule

 

Summary Intervals 1

Summary Intervals 2

 

Case Study 4 - Diseased Monkeys

Case Study 4.1 – Additional Case TBA

 

ÜSummaryÛ

 

 

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

 

Confidence Intervals

Verification of the 95% Confidence Principle

mean tables gives tables for means and proportions intervals and  proportions.

confidence interval steps

CI Mean Slides

 

Case Study 1

Case Study 2

 

ÜSummaryÛ

 

 

1st July / Session 2.3

Confidence Estimation of the Population Proportion

 

CI Proportion Slides

proportions gives different viewpoints on the proportion in Statistics

 

Case Study 3

Case Study 4

 

The Hypothesis Test and Decision Theory

 

The idea of a statistical test is explored here.

The idea of a statistical test is further clarified

Hypothesis Test Schematic

Hypothesis Test Slides    

 

ÜSummaryÛ

 

 

6th  / Session 2.4

Hypothesis Test – Population Median

Median Test Slides

Median Test Examples

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

median test steps

 

Case Study 7

Case Study 8

 

ÜSummaryÛ

 

 

9th / Session 2.5

Hypothesis Test – Categorical Goodness-of-Fit

 

goodness of fit test slides

goodness of fit example

good tables give tables for the goodness-of-fit test

goodness of fit test steps

 

Case Study 9

Case Study 10

 

Verification of the 5% testing principle

Verification of the 5% testing principle - Fall 2007 Update

Verification of the 5% testing principle - Spring 2008 Update

 

ÜSummaryÛ

 

 

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

27th

Comprehensive Final Examination

 

 

Preparing for the Comprehensive Final

Comprehensive Final Archive

July

20th / Open Review Day for Final                   

 

 

22nd / Open Review Day for Final

 

 

27th / Final Examination

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Course Ends