Statistical Literature – Course
Information
Course Schedule – this course meets on
Thursdays 10.00-11.15am in Mundelein Room 404
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Week and Date |
Presenters: |
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Week # & Date |
Article #1 |
Article #2 |
Presenters |
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01 – 09/02 |
Clinical trials (Scientific Amer.) |
Statistics in sociology |
Xianwei & Kim |
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02 – 09/09 |
LR, Wald, and LM tests (TAS) |
Political methodology |
Yanchuan & Ram |
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03 – 09/16 |
DNA profiles (Significance) |
Missing well at soccer (Chance) |
Daiki & Fatma |
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04 – 09/23 |
Muscle memory (PNAS) |
Stopping rules in studies (Chance) |
Jingting & Xianwei |
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05 – 09/30 |
Optimal design (TAS) |
Statistics in the courtroom |
Kim & Yanchuan |
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06 – 10/07 |
Placebos getting better (Wired) |
ROCs in practice (Scientific Amer.) |
Ram & Daiki |
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07 – 10/14 |
The ant odometer (Science) |
Role of likelihood in practice (TAS) |
Fatma & Jingting |
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08 – 10/21 |
Bayes Estimators (J. Stat. Educ.) |
Estimating sensitivity & specificity (Int. J. Parasitology) |
Daiki & Fatma |
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09 – 10/28 |
Mixture Experiments (SUGI pr.) |
Elections & Faces (PNAS) |
Kim & Jingting |
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10 – 11/04 |
Capture-Recapture (Biometrics) |
Mixtures & LOF (Technometrics) |
Ram & Xianwei |
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11 – 11/11 |
Evidence-Based Medicine in Women (Chance) |
Bayesian Decision Making (TAS) |
Yanchuan & Daiki |
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12 – 11/18 |
Physical activity and colds (British J. Sports Medicine) |
Statistics and Ethics (TAS) |
Fatma & Kim |
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13 – 11/25 |
NO CLASS |
THANKSGIVING |
BREAK |
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14 – 12/02 |
QTLs and Statistical Genetics (chapter from
Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown)
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Suppression and Confounding (TAS) |
Jingting & Ram |
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15 – 12/09 |
Move over ANOVA (Arch. Gen. Psychiatry) |
Genome-wide association studies (Nature Reviews) |
Xianwei & Yanchuan |
Students: Xianwei BU, Kim FEUCHT,
Yanchuan LI, Ram RIMAL, Daiki SASAKI, Fatma UYSAL, Jingting XU
Students: Daiki, Fatma, Kim,
Jingting, Ram, Xianwei, Yanchuan