This is the assignments page for BIOL.670.01/BIOL.470.01 - Statistical Analysis for Bioinformatics, an online
course at
Rochester Institute of Technology, for Spring 2017. If you are a student in the course, please return to this
page every week to look for updates. All assignments more than two weeks in the future are subject to change without
notice. Changes and additional assignments will be posted no later than Tuesday evenings so
that they are available no later than Wednesday morning. Note that quiz links on this page will be locked
until the day they are assigned.
Assignment 1: Assigned, Wednesday 25 January 2017; due Wednesday 1 February 2017.
2. Sign up for a Google account (https://accounts.google.com/signup), and,
using your gmail account, send your gmail address to the instructor at his gmail address ()
3. Using your Google account, start a blog for your work in this course (see https://www.blogger.com/). Blogs use a global name space.
To avoid conflicts, begin the name for your blog with your Google ID followed immediately by
the name BIOL670S17, e.g. http://yayahjbBIOL670S17.blogspot.com/
4. Using your Google account, start a personal course web page on which to post reports and projects
for this course. If you already have a public web page, you may use a subpage of that web page instead, provided
the reports and projects will be public. You must make your blog posts and all your papers and presentations
public. Be very careful about what you post,
both in terms of respecting the intellectual property of others and in terms of being very sure that what you
post is material that you are willing to make public. This may seem daunting, but you must get used to it if you
are every to be successful at
scientific publication.
5, Get the text book and start reading. We will wait until next week to formally assign specific pages and
exercises, but the sooner you start, the easier it will be.
6. Read the syllabus, especially the Wikipedia links.
9. Arrange a regular schedule of weekly e-meetings with the instructor. The default e-meeting is Thursday evenings
at 8 pm on BlueJeans 4480962182.
10. Describe everything you have done for this course up to this point in your course blog.
Yes, this assignment is a lot of work, but if you put off doing that work, you will find yourself that much
further behind next week, when there will be an even more demanding assignment. You must get used to the idea
that for every 3-credit college course you take, you must put in a solid 9 to 12 hours per week for 15 weeks.
It takes more than 10,000 hours to become expert at anything. The 135 to 180 hours you will put in for this
course is just a small down-payment on those 10,000 hours.
Assignment 2: Assigned, Wednesday 1 February 2017; due Wednesday 8 February 2017.
1. We will have an e-meeting on Thursday, 2 February 2017 from 8 to 9 pm, and weekly thereafter.
In you have a conflict for that day and time, either for a partcular week or in general,
please contact the instructor promptly to make alternative arrangements for a weekly e-meeting.
At the first session, we will discuss probability and statistics and how they are applied in bioinformatics.
Be prepared to discuss what you have read about the Kimura model last week.
2. Read
https://cbse.soe.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/hmm.all_.pdf>
and prepare a report explaining in no more then 2000 words what the paper is discussing. Be sure to state
clearly both what problem is being addressed and what solution is being proposed. Do a more than a little research
on what happened subsequently and comment on how well that solution did (or did not) work. In particular
find out if there are any major community resources that make use of the appooach discussed. Post
your paper on your web site and send the URL to the instructor.
3. Read Norman and Streiner, through page 75 (i.e. through the end of the first section). As you read each chapter,
extract the salient features and write notes on that chapter in your blog. Do this even if the
material is very familiar to you. If you really know it, writing the notes will go very quickly and will refresh your memory. If it
turns out it is new to you, writing the notes will help you learn it. Once you have written your notes, use them and
your memory to try to do the exercises for that chapter, checking your own answers against the answers at the back
of the book or the chapter itself. If you make mistakes, improve your notes.
4. The most important part of what you have read in Section 1 is the discussion of Bayes' Theorem, which is used
to try to estimate the probability the a hypothesis is true given some known data. By the end of this week
you also will have done some reading on two useful approaches to modelling: Kimura's model from last week and
HMM from this week. Take some time and think about the possible relationships among use of Bayes's Theorem
and use of these models. Be prepared to discuss this topic during our meeting on Thursday, 9 February.
Assignment 3: Assigned, Wednesday 8 February 2017; due Wednesday 15 February 2017.
1. We will have an e-meeting on Thursday, 9 February 2017 from 8 to 9 pm, and weekly thereafter.
There is an alternative e-meeting on Tuesday, 14 February 2017 from 11 am to noon, and weekly thereafter.
If you have a conflict for that day and time, either for a partcular week or in general,
please contact the instructor promptly to make alternative arrangements for a weekly e-meeting.
At that session, you will have a short (5 minute) quiz related to the reading for the past week and what we will be
discussing during the session, and we will discuss more about probability and statistics and how
they are applied in bioinformatics. Be prepared to discuss
hidden Markov models.
2. Read
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2834778/pdf/11306_2009_Article_191.pdf
and prepare a report explaining in no more then 2000 words what the paper is discussing. This is a
tutorial paper, so it covers a lot of territory. Be sure to state
clearly both what overall problem is being addressed and summarize the major solutions being proposed.
The paper is from 2009. Do a more than a little research how extensively such methods are being
applied now. Post your paper on your web site (or directly in your blog) and send the URL to the instructor.
3. Read Norman and Streiner, through page 138 (i.e. through the end of the second section). As you read each chapter,
extract the salient features and write notes on that chapter in your blog. Do this even if
the material is very
familiar to you. If you really know it, writing the notes will go very quickly and will refresh your memory. If it
turns out it is new to you, writing the notes will help you learn it. Once you have written your notes, use them and
your memory to try to do the exercises for that chapter, checking your own answers against the answers at the back
of the book or the chapter itself. If you make mistakes, improve your notes.
4. What you will have read in Section 2 will have introduced you to the ideas involved in working with mutliple
parameters simultaneously rather than just one independent and one dependent variable at a time. Take some time and think
about what happens as you go from working with 2 variables at a time to several variables as a time to tens of
variables at a time to hundreds of variables at a time to thousands or millions of variables at a time. Think about
what you would do if you did not know which variables are independent, which variables are dependent or even if
any of the variables are really relevant to a meaningful problem. Be prepared to discuss this topic during
our e-meeting.
Assignment 4: Assigned, Wednesday 15 February 2017; due Wednesday 22 February 2017.
1. We will have an e-meeting on Thursday, 16 February 2017 from 8 to 9 pm, and weekly thereafter.
There is an alternative e-meeting on Tuesday, 21 February 2017 from 11 am to noon, and weekly thereafter.
In you have a conflict for that day and time, either for a partcular week or in general,
please contact the instructor promptly to make alternative arrangements for a weekly e-meeting.
At that session, you will have a short (5 minute) quiz related to the reading for the past week and what we will be
discussing during the session and we will discuss more about probability and statistics and how
they are applied in bioinformatics. Be prepared to discuss
techniques for working with multiple populations. Note that we will have similar meeetings
most weeks during the semester.
2. Read
https://biostatistics.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/1/40.full
and prepare a report explaining in no more then 2000 words what the paper is discussing.
Be sure to state clearly both what overall problem is being addressed and summarize the major solutions being proposed.
This is a very recent paper, so you cannot do much research on how this particular paper is being
applied. However, do more than a little research how
extensively similar methods are being
applied now. Post your paper on your web site (or directly in your blog) and send the URL to the instructor.
3. It is now time for you to make a preliminary proposal for a term project. Prepare a short proposal for
a project, and both post what you have in mind in your blog and email the same text to the
instructor.
4. Read Norman and Streiner, through page 248 (i.e. through the end of the third section). This is a very long
section, so you will be making two passes through it, once in this assignment and again in the next assignment.
Try to work ahead to the end of the section, so you will have some idea of how it all hangs together, but put most of your
time this week into getting through page 207 (chapter 18). As you read each chapter, extract the salient features and
write notes on that chapter in your blog. Do this even if the material is very
familiar to you. If you really know it, writing the notes will go very quickly and will refresh your memory. If it
turns out it is new to you, writing the notes will help you learn it. Once you have written your notes, use them and
your memory to try to do the exercises for that chapter, checking your own answers against the answers at the back
of the book or the chapter itself. If you make mistakes, improve your notes.
5. We did not have time last Tuesday to discuss what would happen if you were trying to work with very large
numbers of variables at a time. Be prepared to discuss this issue at the e-meeting.
Assignment 5: Assigned, Wednesday 22 February 2017; due Wednesday 1 March 2017.
1. We will have an e-meeting on Thursday, 23 February 2017 from 8 to 9 pm, and weekly thereafter.
There is an alternative e-meeting on Tuesday, 28 February 2017 from 11 am to noon, and weekly thereafter.
In you have a conflict for that day and time, either for a partcular week or in general,
please contact the instructor promptly to make alternative arrangements for a weekly e-meeting.
At that session, you will have a short (5 minute) quiz related to the reading for the past week and what we will be
discussing during the session and we will discuss more about probability and statistics and how
they are applied in bioinformatics. Be prepared to discuss
regression and correlation as well as your project proposal. Note that we will have similar meeetings
most weeks during the semester.
2. Instead of me requiring a particular paper for this week, it is time for you to pick a paper
relevant your project and prepare a report explaining in no more then 2000 words what the paper is discussing.
Please choose a paper for which a PDF is available online and include the URL of that PDF in your report.
Be sure to state clearly both what overall problem is being addressed and summarize the major solutions being proposed.
Post your paper on your web site (or directly in your blog) and send the URL to the instructor.
3. Reread Norman and Streiner, through page 248 (i.e. through the end of the third section). This is a very long
section, so you making a second pass through it, once in the prior assignment and again in this assignment.
Last time your focus was primarily up tp page 207, so this time concentrate your effort on pages 208 -- 248.
As you read each chapter, extract the salient features and
write notes on that chapter in your blog. Do this even if the material is very
familiar to you. If you really know it, writing the notes will go very quickly and will refresh your memory. If it
turns out it is new to you, writing the notes will help you learn it. Once you have written your notes, use them and
your memory to try to do the exercises for that chapter, checking your own answers against the answers at the back
of the book or the chapter itself. If you make mistakes, improve your notes.
Assignment 6: Assigned, Wednesday 1 March 2017; due Wednesday 8 March 2017.
1. If you failed to complete Quiz 1, Quiz 2 or Quiz 3, or wish to simply redo them for a
better grade, please do. They are at: Quiz 1,
Quiz 2,
Quiz 3
When you take one of the quizzes be sure to copy the receipt page and email it to me. We have
had trouble with the quizzes themselves getting caught in a spam filter.
2. We will have an e-meeting on Thursday, 2 March 2017 from 8 to 9 pm, and weekly thereafter.
There is an alternative e-meeting on Tuesday, 7 March 2017 from 11 am to noon, and weekly thereafter.
In you have a conflict for that day and time, either for a partcular week or in general,
please contact the instructor promptly to make alternative arrangements for a weekly e-meeting.
At that session, you will have a short (5 minute) quiz related to the reading for the past week and what we will be
discussing during the session and we will discuss more about probability and statistics and how
they are applied in bioinformatics. Be prepared to discuss
principal component analysis as well as your project proposal. Note that we will have similar meeetings
most weeks during the semester.
3. Pick a paper
relevant your project and prepare a report explaining in no more then 2000 words what the paper is discussing.
Please choose a paper for which a PDF is available online and include the URL of that PDF in your report.
Be sure to state clearly both what overall problem is being addressed and summarize the major solutions being proposed.
Post your paper on your web site (or directly in your blog) and send the URL to the instructor.
4. Some of you will have gotten a start on your projects. The rest of you should now do so, if at all
possible, so you will have enough time to do a proper job and not have to ask for an incomplete.
In any case it is important for all of you to update your blogs and send me the URL. Make sure your
blog is accessible to yayahjb@gmail.com, or, better, to the entire world. Please email me when
you have it ready.
5. Read Norman and Streiner, through page 320 (i.e. through the end of the fourth section).
As you read each chapter, extract the salient features and
write notes on that chapter in your blog. Do this even if the material is very
familiar to you. If you really know it, writing the notes will go very quickly and will refresh your memory. If it
turns out it is new to you, writing the notes will help you learn it. Once you have written your notes, use them and
your memory to try to do the exercises for that chapter, checking your own answers against the answers at the back
of the book or the chapter itself. If you make mistakes, improve your notes. There is only one more section to
go in the book. Your objective is to have the book done and out of the way before the midterm, so you can
use what you have learned from the book and put in your notes in doing a thorough job your project before the end
of April. That will give you time to get ready for the final exam. You must complete your project
before taking the final, because the final includes questions that relate to your project.
Assignment 7: Assigned, Wednesday 8 March 2017; due Wednesday 22 March 2017 (overlaps Spring Break).
1. If you failed to complete Quiz 1, Quiz 2, Quiz 3 or Quiz 4, or wish to simply redo them for a
better grade, please do. They are at: Quiz 1,
Quiz 2,
Quiz 3,
Quiz 4
When you take one of the quizzes be sure to copy the receipt page and email it to me. We have
had trouble with the quizzes themselves getting caught in a spam filter.
2. We will have an e-meeting on Thursday, 23 March 2017 from 8 to 9 pm, and weekly thereafter.
In you have a conflict for that day and time, either for a partcular week or in general,
please contact the instructor promptly to make alternative arrangements for a weekly e-meeting.
At that session, you will have a short (5 minute) quiz related to the reading for the past week and what we will be
discussing during the session and we will discuss more about probability and statistics and how
they are applied in bioinformatics. Be prepared to discuss non-parametric statistics
as well as your project proposal.
3. Pick a paper
relevant your project and prepare a report explaining in no more then 2000 words what the paper is discussing.
Please choose a paper for which a PDF is available online and include the URL of that PDF in your report.
Be sure to state clearly both what overall problem is being addressed and summarize the major solutions being proposed.
Post your paper on your web site (or directly in your blog) and send the URL to the instructor.
4. Your should now be well-started on your project. The way to get it finished is to make steady progress
each week. Make an entry in your blog for your progress each week and send the URL to the instructor.
Make sure your
blog is accessible to yayahjb@gmail.com, or, better, to the entire world. Please email me when
you have it ready.
5. Read Norman and Streiner, through the end of the book. Use the reprise to update and correct your
earlier notes.
As you read each chapter, extract the salient features and
write notes on that chapter in your blog. Do this even if the material is very
familiar to you. If you really know it, writing the notes will go very quickly and will refresh your memory. If it
turns out it is new to you, writing the notes will help you learn it. Once you have written your notes, use them and
your memory to try to do the exercises for that chapter, checking your own answers against the answers at the back
of the book or the chapter itself. If you make mistakes, improve your notes.
Your objective is to have the book done and out of the way before the midterm, so you can
use what you have learned from the book and put in your notes in doing a thorough job your project before the end
of April. That will give you time to get ready for the final exam. You must complete your project
before taking the final, because the final includes questions that relate to your project.
Assignment 8: Assigned, Wednesday 22 March 2017; due Wednesday 29 March 2017.
1. If you failed to complete Quiz 1, Quiz 2, Quiz 3, Quiz 4 or Quiz 5 or wish to simply redo
them for a
better grade, please do. They are at: Quiz 1,
Quiz 2,
Quiz 3,
Quiz 4 Quiz 5
When you take one of the quizzes be sure to copy the receipt page and email it to me. We have
had trouble with the quizzes themselves getting caught in a spam filter.
2. We will have an e-meeting on Thursday, 30 March 2017 from 8 to 9 pm, and weekly thereafter.
In you have a conflict for that day and time, either for a partcular week or in general,
please contact the instructor promptly to make alternative arrangements for a weekly e-meeting.
At that session, you will have a short (5 minute) quiz related to some of the reading assigned and
what we will be
discussing during the session and we will discuss more about probability and statistics and how
they are applied in bioinformatics. Be prepared to discuss the use of PSPP for factor analysis
as well as your project proposal. Note that we will have similar meeetings
most weeks during the semester (but not during Spring break).
3. Pick a paper
relevant your project and prepare a report explaining in no more then 2000 words what the paper is discussing.
Please choose a paper for which a PDF is available online and include the URL of that PDF in your report.
Be sure to state clearly both what overall problem is being addressed and summarize the major solutions being proposed.
Post your paper on your web site (or directly in your blog) and send the URL to the instructor.
4. Your should now be well-started on your project. The way to get it finished is to make steady progress
each week. Make an entry in your blog for your progress each week and send the URL to the instructor.
Make sure your
blog is accessible to yayahjb@gmail.com, or, better, to the entire world. Please email me when
you have it ready.
5. If you have not completed reading Norman and Streiner, please do so, but whether you have
finished to textbook or not, please read all of the PSPP tutorial at
http://it.chass.ncsu.edu/training/pspp/. Use what you learn to add worked examples using
PSPP to the notes in your blog and
as you read each section, extract the salient features and
write notes on that section in your blog. Do this even if the material is very
familiar to you. If you really know it, writing the notes will go very quickly and will refresh your memory. If it
turns out it is new to you, writing the notes will help you learn it.
Your objective is to have the book done and out of the way and be able to use PSPP, so you can
use what you have learned from the book and put in your notes in doing a thorough job your
project, using PSPP as a tool to do real statistics before the end
of April. That will give you time to get ready for the final exam. You must complete your project
before taking the final, because the final includes questions that relate to your project.
Assignment 9: Assigned, Wednesday 29 March 2017; due Wednesday 5 April 2017.
1. If you failed to complete Quiz 1, Quiz 2, Quiz 3, Quiz 4, Quiz 5 or Quiz 6 or wish to simply redo
them for a
better grade, please do. They are at: Quiz 1,
Quiz 2,
Quiz 3,
Quiz 4 Quiz 5,
Quiz 6
When you take one of the quizzes be sure to copy the receipt page and email it to me. We have
had trouble with the quizzes themselves getting caught in a spam filter.
2. Not all of you may have made your blog accessible to me yet. I cannot evaluate your work if I cannot
see it. You must either make your blog completely public or give access to me (hjbsch@rit.edu
and/or yayahjb@gmail/com) immediately. Making it completely public is the simplest and most reliable
thing to do.
3. We will have an e-meeting on Thursday, 30 March 2017.
At that session you will be given a quiz to complete this week related to applying statistical
techniques to the data for your project using PSPP (or SPSS). In order for that to work,
you will need to actually have data related to your project. Be sure to get some. If you
are stuck on that point, be sure to raise that issue in the e-meeting.
Note that we will have similar meeetings most weeks during the semester.
4. Inventory what data you have available related to your project, and prepare a report on
that data, stating what this data describes, what variables are involved, how many data instances there are,
and what descriptive and inferential statistics on this specific data are available to you. You
must provide me with a way to get at the actual data you are describing. Include a plan for
what specific statistical tests you will perform on a this data (or an signficiant subset of this
data) and what your goal is in applying these tests.
Post this report on your web site (or directly in your blog) and send the URL to the instructor.
5. In addition to the prior activity, post a weekly progress report on your project on your blog
and send the URL to the instructor.
6. As you do the above work, go back to the text to refresh your memory on the statistical techniques you are
using
and make notes in you blog about the relevant (or irrelevance) to the text to the actual work you
are doing.
Assignment 10: Assigned, Wednesday 5 April 2017; due Wednesday 12 April 2017.
1. If you failed to complete Quiz 1, Quiz 2, Quiz 3, Quiz 4, Quiz 5, Quiz 6 or Quiz 7 or wish to simply
redo them for a
better grade, please do. They are at: Quiz 1,
Quiz 2,
Quiz 3,
Quiz 4 Quiz 5,
Quiz 6,
Quiz 7
When you take one of the quizzes be sure to copy the receipt page and email it to me. We have
had trouble with the quizzes themselves getting caught in a spam filter.
2. Not all of you may have made your blog accessible to me yet. Some of you who have made your blogs
available may not have been keeping it current. I cannot evaluate your work if I cannot
see it. You must either make your blog completely public or give access to me (hjbsch@rit.edu
and/or yayahjb@gmail/com) immediately. Making it completely public is the simplest and most reliable
thing to do. Then you have to get it up to date and keep it up to date. We are running out of time
to complete the work for this semester.
3. We will have an e-meeting on Thursday, 6 April 2017.
At that session you will be given a quiz to complete this week related to applying statistical
techniques to the data for your project using PSPP (or SPSS). In order for that to work,
you will need to actually have data related to your project. Be sure to get some. If you
are stuck on that point, be sure to raise that issue in the e-meeting.
Note that we will have similar meeetings most weeks during the semester.
4. Last time you were to inventory your data. If you have not done so, so it now.
In any case, generate meaningfule descriptive statistics for all your data and add those
statistics for your data inventory on your web site or blog.
5. In addition to the prior activity, post a weekly progress report on your project on your blog
and send the URL to the instructor.
6. As you do the above work, go back to the text to refresh your memory on the statistical techniques you are using
and make notes in you blog about the relevant (or irrelevance) to the text to the actual work you
are doing.
Assignment 11: Assigned, Wednesday 12 April 2017; due Wednesday 19 April 2017.
1. If you failed to complete Quiz 1, Quiz 2, Quiz 3, Quiz 4, Quiz 5, Quiz 6, Quiz 7 or Quiz 8 or wish to simply
redo them for a
better grade, please do. They are at: Quiz 1,
Quiz 2,
Quiz 3,
Quiz 4 Quiz 5,
Quiz 6,
Quiz 7,
Quiz 8
When you take one of the quizzes be sure to copy the receipt page and email it to me. We have
had trouble with the quizzes themselves getting caught in a spam filter.
2. We will have an e-meeting on Thursday, 13 April 2017. There will be one session,
from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. I will send out an email shortly
before that session to all students. If you cannot attend that session, you must make an appointment
with me for another fixed e-meeting time this week and every week until the end of this course.
To start, send me an updated calendar for your commitments this week.
3. Post a weekly progress report on your project on your blog
and send the URL to the instructor.
4. As you do the above work, go back to the text to refresh your memory on the statistical techniques you are using
and make notes in you blog about the relevant (or irrelevance) to the text to the actual work you
are doing.
Assignment 12: Assigned, Wednesday 19 April 2017; due Wednesday 26 April 2017.
1. If you failed to complete Quiz 1, Quiz 2, Quiz 3, Quiz 4, Quiz 5, Quiz 6, Quiz 7, Quiz 8 or Quiz 9 or wish to simply
redo them for a
better grade, please do. They are at: Quiz 1,
Quiz 2,
Quiz 3,
Quiz 4 Quiz 5,
Quiz 6,
Quiz 7,
Quiz 8 Quiz 9 To complete the course, you need to have done all of the quizzes.
When you take one of the quizzes be sure to copy the receipt page and email it to me. We have
had trouble with the quizzes themselves getting caught in a spam filter.
2. We will have an e-meeting on Thursday, 20 April 2017. There will be one session,
from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. I will send out an email shortly
before that session to all students. If you cannot attend that session, you must make an appointment
with me for another fixed e-meeting time this week and every week until the end of this course.
To start, send me an updated calendar for your commitments this week.
3. Your project should now be well in hand. You should have the literature you need for background
for your report, you should have data to process, and you should be able to work with PSPP to process
that data. If that is not the case, contact me immediately to work on resolving whatever issues
are stopping you.
4. The data you are working with has, in most cases not been obtained through intervention or interaction
with individual human subject and does not contain identifiable private information and therefore you are
not engaged in human subjects research, but some of you are already close to doing that, and everybody
who works with statistics in bioinformatics is likely at some point to be involved in human subjects
research. Therefore an important part of your education in biostatistics is to learn the rules of doing
research involving human subjects. You are to go to the RIT Humans Subjects Office website:
read what it says and then go to the training page, carefully read the "Online Tutorial Directions"
and following the login directions in the RIT page, take the training at
You must complete this training and provide the training certificate as part of this assignment.
5. Post a weekly progress report on your project on your blog
and send the URL to the instructor.
6. As you do the above work, both for your project and for the humans subjects training
make notes in your blog about what happens.
Assignment 13: Assigned, Wednesday 26 April 2017; due Wednesday 3 May 2017.
1. If you failed to complete Quiz 1, Quiz 2, Quiz 3, Quiz 4, Quiz 5, Quiz 6,
Quiz 7, Quiz 8, Quiz 9 or Quiz 10 or wish to simply
redo them for a
better grade, please do. They are at: Quiz 1,
Quiz 2,
Quiz 3,
Quiz 4 Quiz 5,
Quiz 6,
Quiz 7,
Quiz 8 Quiz 9,
Quiz
10 To complete the course, you need to have done all of the quizzes.
When you take one of the quizzes be sure to copy the receipt page and email it to me. We have
had trouble with the quizzes themselves getting caught in a spam filter.
If you have any other coursework that is incomplete, it is urgent that you
finish it very soon.
2. We will have an e-meeting on Thursday, 27 April 2017. There will be one session,
from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. I will send out an email shortly
before that session to all students. If you cannot attend that session, you must make an appointment
with me for another fixed e-meeting time this week and every week until the end of this course.
To start, send me an updated calendar for your commitments this week.
3. Your project should now be close to complete. In order to get a grade
for this course before the end of the semester, you are
to submit a complete project report no later than Friday 28 April 2017. You are to
post the report on your blog or on your web site and email the URL to the instructor.
The length of the report depends on what you have to say. We will discuss further
details in the e-meeting. If you are unable to complete your project
report in this time-frame, please contact the instructor to arrange an incomplete
and to work out a schedule for clearing the incomplete.
4. There will be one more assignment in preparation for the final, and then
we will be given a final examination on Thursday, 18 May 2017 in two parts. One part
will be taken on-line at 8 pm on 18 May. Then you will have a second part to complete
within 24 more hours, i.e. by 9 pm on 19 May.
5. Post a weekly progress report on your project on your blog
and send the URL to the instructor.
Assignment 14: Assigned, Wednesday, 3 May 2017; due Wednesday 10 May 2017.
1. If you failed to complete Quiz 1, Quiz 2, Quiz 3, Quiz 4, Quiz 5, Quiz 6,
Quiz 7, Quiz 8, Quiz 9 or Quiz 10 or Quiz 11 or wish to simply
redo them for a
better grade, please do. They are at: Quiz 1,
Quiz 2,
Quiz 3,
Quiz 4 Quiz 5,
Quiz 6,
Quiz 7,
Quiz 8 Quiz 9,
Quiz 10,
Quiz 11 To complete the course, you need to have done all of the quizzes.
When you take one of the quizzes be sure to copy the receipt page and email it to me. We have
had trouble with the quizzes themselves getting caught in a spam filter.
If you have any other coursework that is incomplete, it is urgent that you
finish it very soon.
2. We will have an e-meeting on Thursday, 4 May 2017 from 8 pm to 9 pm.
There will be an alternate e-meeting on Tuesday, 9 May 2017. I will send out an email shortly
before those session to all students. If you cannot attend that session, you must make an appointment
with me for another fixed e-meeting time this week.
To start, send me an updated calendar for your commitments this week. In any case this will be
the Last group e-meeting of the semester.
3. Your project should now be complete and submitted in order to get a grade
for this course before the end of the semester. If you have missed this deadline,
be sure to discuss your plans and options during the e-meeting.
and to work out a schedule for clearing the incomplete.
4. This is the last assignment before the final. In order to prepare, you
should review the text, all past assignments, how to run PSPP, your human subjects research training
and your completed project. As you do this prepare for yourself a condensed glossary
and set of notes to use during the final with all information you may need reminders
on. For each definition in your glossary, be sure to include formulae with the meanings
of all variables stated. Be sure for inferential statistics that you have notes on how
to quantitatively estimate a probability of the validity of a hypothesis and be prepared to do this in
detail for at least one significant hypothesis from your project. Post these notes on your blog and
email the URL to the instructor.
5. *** The schedule for the final is being changed from a two-part exam on Thursday, 18 May 2017,
to an on-line take-home exam in one part.*** You will be given the URL of the exam on Monday, 15 May 2017
and you will have to submit your answers by the 8 pm on Thursday, 18 May 2017. If you are taking an incomplete,
you are permitted to take the final for practice, but you must declare that you are requesting an incomplete
before distribution of the final.
6. If you are missing assignments, quizzes or a completed project, so you need to ask for an
incomplete, the only way to complete the course is by doing all the work for the course
and demonstrating that you have learned biostatistics.
Final exam: The on-line take-home exam will be distributed by 15 May 2017 and is due no later than 8 pm on
Thursday, 18 May 2017
