Midterm Syllabus for Biostats Course VHM 801 at AVC - Fall semester 2024

The syllabus for the mid-term exam of VHM 801 broadly consists of the material covered in Sessions 1-7 of the course. For each of the textbooks allowed (see note on textbook), this corresponds roughly to the following material.

Baldi & Moore (4th): Chapters 1-2, 6-15, 17-19,

• exclude Sections (numbering following the Contents, e.g. 1.0-1.7 for Chapter 1) 1.7, 7.5, 8.5, 8.6, 9.7, 9.8, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 12.7, 12.8, 15.5, 18.7, 19.4.

• exclude Sections 1.3, 2.5, 4.5, 9.3
• material on choice of sample size in Sections 7.2 and 7.3
• include (from another book or lecture handouts) material on sampling and experimental design,
• include (from another book or lecture handouts) more advanced material on one and two proportions.

• exclude Sections 2.1-2.5, 3.4, 6.4, 7.3, 8.2
• material on choice of sample size in Sections 6.1 and 8.1
• exclude all "Beyond the basics" sections, except pp. 477-79 and 494-96 ("plus four" method for one and two proportions),
• exclude specific formulae for power calculations for t-tests (Section 7.1).

• Supplementary Chapter 27 of Baldi & Moore (excluding the last section, Comparing several samples: the Kruskal-Wallis test); note however, that calculations of P-values for rank-based tests is not included.

• Bayes formula, tree diagrams,
• statistical inference for two proportions (both CI and the (classical) z-test),
• McNemar's test,
• the Poisson distribution.