Instructor: Dr. Lianfen Qian, S&E 244, email: Lqian@fau.edu and webpage: http://www.math.fau.edu/qian//
Course Objectives: After finishing the course, students will be able to chose suitable exerimental design, method of data collection, analyze data using Minitab and write technique reports. Students will be able to make decisions and recommend their suggestions based on the statistical results. Students will also learn the basic concepts about survey samplings.
Prerequisites: Introductory statistics.
Time and Place: MW, 2:00-3:20PM, S&E 215.
Office Hour: Tu, Tur, 10:00- 11:00AM, S&E 244.
Textbook:
R. Mead, R.N. Curnow and A. M. Hasted (1993). Statistical Methods in Agriculture and Experimental bilogy. 2nd Ed. Chapman & Hall.
Reference books:
- Douglas Nychka, Walter W. Piegorsch and Lawrence H. Cox (1998). Case studies in environmental statistics. Lecture Notes in Statistics Vol 132. Springer.
- Water W. Piegorsch and A. John Bailer (1997). Statsitics for environmental biology and toxicology. Chapman & Hall.
- James F. Zolman (1993). BioStatistics: Experimental Design and Statistical Inference. Oxford university Press.
Course description: This course will introduce basic probability and statistical distributions, fundamentals of statistical inference, fundamental issues in experiment design, data analysis of treatment-versus-control differences, treatment-versus-control multiple comparisons, trend testing, dose-response modeling and analysis, introduction to generalized linear models, analysis of cross-classified tabular/categorical data. Statistical software Minitab and SAS will be used to illustrate statistical methods.
Tests and Homework: There will be eight homework assignments, one midterm exam and a final exam. Homework will be collected and graded. No late submission of homework will be accepted. Some of the homework will be computer projects. The midterm exam will be given on October 11 and the Final exam will be given on December 8 from 1:15 to 3:45PM.
Grade: The homework will be accounted as 40% of the final grade, the midterm exam will be accounted as 30%, and the final exam will be accounted as 30%.
Attendance: The instructor reserves the right to make any changes she considers academically advisable. Note that it is your responsibility to attend the class and keep track of the proceedings.