STA 527  Introduction to Statistics (4 credits)

Sample Course Outline
Fall Semester

Lecture MWF 11-11:50   UB 2 DFN
Recitation R 3-3:50 146 DFN

Week	Topic
1.	Statistics and medicine
2.	The design of experiments
3.	Sampling and observational studies
4.	Summarizing data
5.	Presenting data
6.	Probabilities
7.	The normal distribution
8.	Estimation
9.	Significance tests
10.	Comparing the means of small samples
11.	Regression and correlation
12.	Methods based on rank order
13.	The analysis of cross tabulations
14.	Choosing the statistical method
15.	Clinical measurement
16.	Mortality statistics and population structure
17.	Multifactorial methods
18.	Determination of sample size

Text Book:  An Introduction to Medical Statistics by Martin Bland

Course Coordinator: Dr. Gregory Wilding, gwilding@buffalo.edu