Fall 2014: Final Exam

Your final exam will be conducted on Thursday December 11, 2014. Timings are 11:00 - 01:00 in S-331. Details are below:

Pattern: MCQs, Short questions, long questions, problems

Topics: All course topics are included.

Be on time. No extra time will be given, if you arrive late. 

Bring your own calculator. Cell phone will not be allowed in any case.

Good luck.

Fall 2014 Class: Quiz 2

Dear Students

Your 2nd quiz will held on Thursday November 06, 2014 during class timings. Quiz marks are 10 and weight-age is 5 %.  Topic for the quiz is t-test.

Be on time. Bring your calculator.

Good luck.

Fall 2014: Mid-term Exam will held on the same date

Dear Students

As per discussion in the class on Tuesday, your Mid-term Exam will held on the same date as it was previously announced (Friday October 17, 2014).

Fall 2014: Mid-term Exam

Dear Students

Your Mid-term exam will be conducted on Friday October 17, 2014. Details are below:

Marks: 40, W/ge: 20%
Place: S-321, Timings: 08:15-09:15 am
Pattern: MCQs, short questions, problems, long question
Topics: uses and misuses of stats ib biology, terminology in biostatistics, scales of measurement, data and its types, measures of central tendency (ungrouped and grouped data),measures of disperssion (ungrouped and grouped data), hypothesis testing, t-test.

Special Instructions: Bring your own calculator. Use of cell phone will not be allowed in any case.
Be on time.

Good luck!

Introductory Powerpoint Slides including Definitions Covered

Biostatistics - Intro

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Fall 2014: Quiz 1

Dear Students

Your quiz 1 will be conducted on Tuesday 16th September, 2014. Details are as follows:

Marks: 10
Weight-age: 5%
Topics: uses and misuses of biostistics, terminology in biostatistics (population, sample, variable, classes/groups, class limits, class boundaries)
Pattern: MCQs, short questions, statements

Be on time.

Good luck.

Home Work to be Discussed in next Lab

Make examples for "population, sample and variable". Bring these to the upcoming lab and discuss these.
Population is a whole set of objects, things, people etc.
Sample is a representative, randomized set of a population, if it is required.
Variable is any measurable that changes it value over time.

Fall 2014 Class: Welcome

Dear Students
Welcome to the class. Looking forward to have a very good semester and learning experience.
To download course outline, click the link below:
Biol 212 Course Outline
Cheers!

Spring 2014: Final Result

Dear Students
You can check your final papers and result tomorrow (June 03) or on Thursday (June 05) from 10-1.

Spring 2014 Class: Final Exam

Dear Students

Your Final Examination will be held on Monday May 19, 2014.

Timings:  11 am – 1 pm

Room No:  S-329

         

Pattern: MCQs, statements, short questions, long questions / problems

Course Topics: Measures of central tendency and dispersion, experimental design, hypothesis testing, t-test, chi square test, correlation, ANOVA, simple linear regression

Special Instructions: Be on time. Bring your own calculator.

Good luck.

Assignment Details

Assignment details are as follows:

You have to select an article from the ones given on the blog. Then study it thoroughly and write down a summary of all kind of statistics applied in the article. You have to describe and comment on hypothesis, research design, data collection, data presentation and data analysis. Also, suggest if possible, some improvement in the article in terms of collection, presentation and analysis.

Assignments have 10 % weight-age towards your final grade.

Good luck.

Spring 2014 Class: Quiz 2

Dear Students

Your 2nd quiz will be conducted on Tuesday 15th April in the class timings. Topic of the quiz is “experimental”. Quiz format is MCQs and/or statements. Marks will be 10 and weight-age will be as per provided in course outline.

Be on time. Good luck.

Research Articles for Assignment -Spring 2014

Article 1: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3482233/pdf/pone.0047827.pdf
Article 2: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3065476/pdf/pone.0018229.pdf
Article 3: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3473967/pdf/PAMJ-12-81.pdf
Article 4: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3575486/pdf/pone.0056969.pdf
Article 5: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088593/pdf/pnas.201101804.pdf
Article 6: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3248510/pdf/pnas.201115116.pdf
Article 7: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3632570/pdf/pone.0061711.pdf

Spring 2014 Class: Mid-term Exam

Dear Students

Your Mid-term exam will be conducted on Monday March 19, 2014. Details are below:

Place: S-321
Timings: 08:15 am - 09:30 am
Weight-age: 25 %
Marks: 40
Pattern: MCQs, short questions and problems

Topics: Scope of biostatistics, use of statistics in biology, misuses of statistics and how to find a misuse; terminology in biostatistics: population and sample, variable or factor, classes, groups, class limits, boundaries; scales of measurement; stages of research; types of data and methods of data collection, data collection, summarizing information and presentation; measures of central tendency: computation of mean, median and mode from grouped and ungrouped data; measures of dispersion: computation of variance, standard deviation, formation of tables; probability: simple probability: conditional – mutually exclusive and non-exclusive, independent and dependent.

Be on time and bring your own stationary etc. Cellular phones are not allowed during the exam. Bring your own calculator. Use of cell phone as calculator will not be allowed in any case.

Good luck.

Spring 2014 Class: Welcome to the Course and Course Outline

Dear Students
Welcome to the course of Biostatistics. To download course outline, click the link below:
Biol 205 Course Outline S14