Instructor: Ali Nematbakhsh, Ph.D.
Office: 416 Nieuwland Science Hall
Phone: 631-0671
E-mail Address: anematba@nd.edu
Webpage http://sites.nd.edu/alin/
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 12:30 pm –1:30 p.m. and by appointment
Goals and
Objectives: The goal of this course is to provide students with a practical understanding of how to select and use an appropriate statistical method for a given typical problem in the life and health sciences.
This course will help students to learn and think precisely to evaluate information and apply logical analysis at a very high level in order to make proper decisions in life & health sciences problem situations.
In this class, you will learn how to organize, analyze and interpret the data and develop decision-making skills based on sound statistical techniques. You will learn the importance of analytical models such as discrete and continuous probability distributions, sampling distributions, confidence interval, hypothesis testing, and other statistical methods.
Textbook: Brigitte Baldi, and David S. Moore (2014). The Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences (3rd edition), New York, NY: W.H. Freeman and Company.
Software: We will be using MATLAB, and Microsoft Excel, which are widely available and used for statistical analysis.
Help Session: helps session is available every Wednesday 4:00 pm –5:00 p.m., every Thursday 5:00 pm –6:00 p.m., and every Sunday 3:00 pm –5:30 pm in Debartolo 213