Biostatistics in Public Health Course Materials
Syllabus		Lecture	Exercise	SPSS Guide	Schedule	Tutors
Springboard
Week 1:	(8/22) Introduction and Orientation
	· Term Project
	· A video clip for Bar chart and Histogram by hand.
Week 2:	(8/23 – 8/29) Data and Summary Statistics
Week 2 LD:	(8/30 - 9/5) Descriptive Statistics and SPSS
	Quiz 1 (Due 9/2) Recorded Chat Conversation on 9/1
Week 3:	(9/6 - 9/12) Probability and Bayes Theorem
	Assignment 1 (Due 9/9) Recorded Chat conversation on 9/8
Week 4:	(9/13 - 9/19) Probability and Normal Distributions
	- Recorded Lecture from 9/20/2008
	Quiz 2 (Due 9/16) Click on “Clock” icon for the Wednesday’s Chat in Springboad Chat page to view recorded chat conversation on Wednesday 9/16.
Week 5:	(9/20 - 9/26) Sampling Distribution of the Mean and Confidence Interval
	Assignment 2 (Due 9/23) A pdf version of Assignment 2
Week 6:	(9/27 - 10/3) Hypothesis Testing
	- Recorded Lecture from 10/04/2008 (Problems used in lecture)
	Lecture Materials for this week: (10/03/2009) - Lecture Notes to bring to class: 1. Probability, 2. Sample Size, 3. Hypothesis Testing. - Recorded Lecture from 10/03/2009 (From YSU) Quiz 3 (Due 9/30)
Week 7:	(10/4 - 10/10) Comparison of Two Means and Analysis of Variance
	About Exam 1
	Exam 1 (Due 11 PM, 10/7)
Week 8:	(10/11 – 10/17) Nonparametric Methods and Inference on Proportions
	- Recorded Lecture from 10/18/2008 (Problems used in lecture) Lecture Materials for this week (10/17/2009) - Lecture Notes to bring to class this week - Recorded Lecture from 10/17/2009 (From Akron U.)
	Quiz 4 (Due 10/14)
Week 9:	(10/18 – 10/24) Contingency Tables and Linear Correlation
	Quiz 5 (Due 10/21) Optional extra credit assignment 1 due 10/21
Week 10:	(10/25 – 10/31) Linear Regression and Multiple Regression
	Lecture Materials for this week (10/31/2009) - Lecture Notes to bring to class this week Assignment 3 (Due 10/28)
Week 11:	(11/1 – 11/7) Logistic Regression
	- Recorded Lecture from 11/08/2008 - Lecture Note for Logistic Regression Quiz 6 (Due 11/4)
Week 12:	(11/8 – 11/14) SPSS Lab at Akron U.
	About Exam 2 and Exam 3
	Exam 2, timed 2-hour online, 11/11, available on 12AM and due 11PM Exam 3, 1^st hour on 11/14 in class
Week 13:	(11/15 – 11/21) Survival Analysis – Lecture by Dr. Richard Steiner
	Quiz 7 (Due 11/18) Optional extra credit assignment 2 due 11/21
Break	(11/22 – 11/28): Week of Thanksgiving Day
	· Assignment 4 (Due 11/25)
Week 14:	(11/29 – 12/5): Project Presentations
	About Exam 4
	· Term Project Abstract due 12/2 on Springboard – An Example of Abstract
	Exam 4, 1^st hour on 12/5 in class
Week 15:	(12/6 – 12/12): Final Week
	- Lecture Notes for this week - Summary
	Final Project Paper Due on 12/9