STA 552 (PRINCIPLES OF STATISTICAL INFERENCE I)

Updated August 10, 2011

STA 552 (PRINCIPLES OF STATISTICAL INFERENCE I)

INFORMATION FOR STAT552 ON-LINE, FALL 2009

Welcome
Contact Information
Course Overview
Course Objectives
Textbook(s) and Software
Course Schedule

STATCRUNCH (FOR USE WITH THE BOOK "FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOSTATISTICS" BY ROSNER)
StatCrunch (On-Line Statistical Software)
Getting Started
Computing Binomial and Poisson Probabilities
Normal Distribution
Summary Statsitics
Hypothesis Testing
Confidence Intervals
Simple Linear Regression
Nonparametric Statistics
Using Binning and Where Clauses

MODULE DESCRIPTIONS AND PROBLEM ASSIGNMENTS
Descriptive Statistics (Chapters 1-2)
Probability (Chapters 3-5)
Estimation (Chapter 6)
Hypothesis Testing (Chapters 7-8)

IN-CLASS PRESENTATIONS
Descriptive Statistics - Chapters 1 and 2
Probability - Chapter 3
Probability - Chapter 4
Probability - Chapter 5
Estimation - Chapter 6
Hypothesis Testing - Chapter 7
Hypothesis Testing - Chapters 8 + 10
Nonparametric Statistics - Chapter 12 (old, not revised)

EXTRA READINGS AND VIDEOS
How to Display Data Badly (reading)
How to Display Data Badly (video-requires Real Audio)

EXTRA PROBLEMS
Hypothesis Testing - Chapter 8 + 10
Nonparametric Statistics - Chapter 12

SAS CODE...

SAS DATA SETS...

EXCEL SPREADSHEETS...

STATISTICS RESOURCES
StatCrunch (On-Line Statistical Software)
Statdisk (Statistical Software for Download)
CHANCE News WIKI (at Dartmouth)
The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice
HyperStat Online Textbook
VassarStats: Website for Statistical Computation
GraphPad QuickCalcs: Free Statistical Calculators
Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis (On-Line Statistical Software)
Web Pages that Perform Statistical Calculations
Understanding Correlation
Statistics Glossary
Power Calculator (DSS Research)
Rollin Brant's Sample Size/Power Calculators (University of Calgary)
Power Illustration (AMSTAT)
JSE Archive of Interactive Computing (Applets)
Links to Power and Sample Size Programs
British Medical Journal Statistics Notes Series
"How to Read a Paper" Series from the British Medical Journal
Statistics for the Terrified (demos, glossary, software)
Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (used at UNC School of Public Health)
Penn State Statistical Education Resource Kit
Penn State Statistical Education Lecture Notes
Intoduction to Statistics
Types of Data
Descriptive Statistics-Location
Descriptive Statistics-Variability
Descriptive Statistics-Graphics

StatPrimer (Version 6.4)
S-PLUS Student Version (FREE - Click on SOFTWARE)
STATSOFT Electronic Textbook
Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics
Elementary Statistics
SurfStat Australia
Wolfram MathWorld ("...the web's most extensive mathematics resource...")
Purplemath ("...Need help with algebra...")
CHANCE ENCOUNTERS: A First Course in Data Analysis and Inference
PROBABILITY
Stats: Introduction to Probability
An Introduction to Probability
An Introduction to Probability (The Math Forum @ Drexel)
Probability Theory (formerly-The Layman's Guide to Probability Theory)
It's a Small World (6 Degree of Separation)
Small World (6 Degree of Separation)
Binomial Probabilities (includes a Self Test)
Binomial Probabilities (includes a calculator, Richard Lowry's pages at Vassar)
Exact Binomial and Poisson Confidence Intervals

Who's Counting (John Paulos @ ABC News)
Against All Odds (free on-line video - lectures on math and stat)
STATS (Steve's Attempt to Teach Statistics)
Duke University Departmnt of Statistical Sciences
Introduction to Sampling
Bias in Sampling
Guidelines for Using Confidence Intervals for Public Health Assessment
Handbook of Biological Statistics

LINKS TO SAS-RELATED WEB SITES
SAS Institute
SAS V9.1.3 Documentation (on-line in PDF format)
SAS V9.1.3 Documentation (on-line in HTML format)
SAS V9.2 BASE SAS Documentation (on-line in PDF format)
SAS V9.2 SAS/STAT Documentation (on-line in PDF format)
SAS V9.2 SAS/GRAPH Documentation (on-line in PDF format)
What's New in SAS --- Versions 8.2 through 9.2
SAS Institute--SAS Code Samples and Data
SAS Institute--Sample Data Sets
SAS Learning Edition $125 (cheap)
SAS Institute Publishing (Buy Books, Sample SAS Code)
Northeast SAS Users Group (with a link to papers from proceedings)
SAS Papers from SUGI Meetings (SAS web site)
SAS Papers from SUGI + PharmaSUG Meetings (* topic-specific organized web site *)
JMP/IN Software (Student Edition of SAS JMP Software)
Mayo Clinic-Biostatistics, SAS Macros
Lex Jansen's Web Site (SUGI, NESUG, PharmaSUG Papers)
UCLA SAS Training/Consulting/Resouces
UCLA Statistical Computing (includes a link to SAS resources)
UCLA Statistical Analyses Using SAS
UNC Population Center Topics in SAS Programming
Wensui's BLOG in Statistical Computing (neat examples with SAS/STAT)
SAS Online Resources for Statistics Education---Statistics Exercises (great resource with SAS code)
SAS/STAT 9.2 User's Guide Introductory and Common Chapters

LINKS TO EPIDEMIOLOGY WEB SITES
Epidemiology for the Uninitiated (British Medical Journal)
Open Source Epidemiologic Statistics for Public Health
British Medical Journal: Statistics Notes

DATA RESOURCES
SAS Online Resources for Statistics Education (data set page does not work in Foxfire browser)
SAS Online Resources for Statistics Education---Data Sets via FTP (works in any browser)

GRAPHICS
Gallery of Data Visualization
Statistical Plots @ MathWorld
Edward Tufte
Stephen Few ... Perceptual Edge
Graphing Data for Decision Making
Gapminder
Hans Rosling TED Lectures

BOOKS
Fundamentals of Biostatistics 6th Edition (Rosner) --- text for Fall 2008 on-line course
Biostatistics (Triola)
Introductory Biostatistics
Introductory Biostatistics for the Health Sciences
Biostatistical Methods in Epidemiology
Common Statistical Errors and How to Avoid Them
Categorical Data Analysis
Intuitive Biostatistics

QUESTIONS - Contact Mike Zdeb (msz03@albany.edu).

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