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1. Summarizing Data
(1) PubHlth 540 2011, (2) additional reading, (3) illustrative applets, (4) calculators (5) computer illustrations.
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(1) PubHlth 540 - 2011 |
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Lecture Notes 2011 - Course Introduction Lecture Notes 2011 - Unit 1, Summarizing Data |
(pdf, 21 pp) (pdf, 51 pp) |
Text, Rosner, Bernard- Fundamentals of Biostatistics, 7th Edition Note - It's fine to use an earlier version of this text ... follow along with "like" chapters |
Ch 1 - General Overview, pp 1-4 Ch 2 - Descriptive Statistics, pp 5-33 |
Homework Due Monday September 19, 2011 |
(pdf, 4 pp) |
Solutions to Homework |
(pdf, 18 pp) |
Practice Quiz |
(pdf, 2 pp) |
Solutions to Practice Quiz |
(pdf, 6 pp) |
(2) Additional Reading |
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(Source: Stephen Jay Gould) The Median Isn't the Message - a really nice essay |
(pdf, 3 pp) |
(Source: Marie Diener-West of Johns Hopkins SPH) Exploratory Data Analysis Power Point Lecture |
(pdf, 71 slides) |
(Source: www.mathcentre.ac.uk) Sigma Notation- Additional explanation w examples of summation notation |
(pdf, 10 pp) |
(Source: Statistics Canada) Stem and Leaf Plots - provides additional help |
(html) |
(3) Illustrative Applets |
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(Source: Utah State University) Box and Whisker Plot & Histogram |
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(Source: www.analyzemath.com) Box and Whisker Plot - Interactive. Play with it an see how box plots change as sample values are changed from sets that are symmetric to sets that exhibit skewness! |
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(4) Calculators |
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(Source: Shodor Education) Histogram |
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(5) Computer Illustrations |
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Online free-ware A look at the ICU data on page 13 of Lecture notes 1. Summarizing Data |
Illustration (pdf, 12 pp) |
| Stata Data set (geyser.dta) Illustration (pdf) |
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SAS A Visit to Yellowstone National Park |
SAS Data set (geyser.sas7bdat) Illustration (pdf) |
Minitab A Visit to Yellowstone National Park |
Minitab Data set (geyser.mtw) Illustration (pdf) |
SPSS A Visit to Yellowstone National Park |
SPSS Data set (geyser.sav) Illustration (pdf) |
R A Visit to Yellowstone National Park |
Excel Data set (geyser.xls) Illustration (pdf) |
