Math 20340, Section 01 --- Statistics for Life Sciences

University of Notre Dame, Fall 2008

http://www.nd.edu/~dgalvin1/20340/

• Final exam: Tuesday December 16, 4.15pm-6.15pm, DeBartolo 136. Here's the formula sheet that comes with the exam.
• Here is a short piece published by the Mackinaw Center for Public Policy on the subject of reading opinion polls.
• Here's the Excel file for heights of MLB players versus NBA players
• Central limit theorem demonstration: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lane/stat_sim/sampling_dist/index.html
• Here are the three online applets I showed in class on Monday (Sep 22) that illustrate the normal distribution:
  • Dice rolling simulation: http://www.stat.sc.edu/~west/javahtml/CLT.html
  • The distribution of many repaeated independent Bernoulli trials: http://bcs.whfreeman.com/ips4e/cat_010/applets/CLT-Binomial.html
  • The normal distribution for various values of its parameters: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~naras/jsm/NormalDensity/NormalDensity.html
• Poisson distribution calculator: http://rockem.stat.sc.edu/prototype/calculators/index.php3?dist=Poisson
• Binomial distribution calculator: http://cnx.org/content/m11024/latest/ (scroll down)
• Power point on Poisson distribution (created by Larry Winner, U. Fla.)

Created by David Galvin, and last revised on June 24, 2008.