Biostatistics for the Biological and Health Sciences, SI Units + MyLab Statistics with Pearson eText (Package)

Mark Triola, MD, FACP is the Associate Dean for Educational Informatics at NYU School of Medicine, the founding director of the NYU Langone Medical Center Institute for Innovations in Medical Education (IIME), and an Associate Professor of Medicine. Dr. Triola's research focuses on precision education and the use of AI tools to efficiently personalize medical education for individual learners and give new insights to their programs and coaches. His lab develops new learning technologies and AI-driven educational interventions and also works to define educationally sensitive patient and system outcomes that can be used to assess the impact of training. Dr. Triola and IIME have been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the Department of Education, the Department of Defense, and the American Medical Association's Accelerating Change in Medical Education program. Mario F. Triola is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Dutchess Community College, where he has taught statistics for over 30 years. Marty is the author of Elementary Statistics, 14th Edition; Essentials of Statistics, 7th Edition; Elementary Statistics Using Excel, 7th Edition; and Elementary Statistics Using the TI-83/84 Plus Calculator, 5th Edition; and he is a co-author of Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life, 5th Edition. Elementary Statistics is currently available as an International Edition, and it has been translated into several foreign languages. Marty designed the original Statdisk statistical software, and he has written several manuals and workbooks for technology supporting statistics education. He has been a speaker at many conferences and colleges. Marty's consulting work includes the design of casino slot machines and the design of fishing rods, and he has worked with attorneys in determining probabilities in paternity lawsuits, analyzing data in medical malpractice lawsuits, identifying salary inequities based on gender, and analyzing disputed election results. He has also used statistical methods to analyze medical school surveys, survey results for the New York City Transit Authority, and COVID-19 virus data for government officials. Marty has testified as an expert witness in the New York State Supreme Court. As of this writing, Marty's Elementary Statistics has been the #1 statistics text in the United States for 27 consecutive years. Jason Roy, PhD is a Professor of Biostatistics and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Rutgers University. He is director of Rutgers University Biostatics and Epidemiology Services and co-director of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design core, NJ ACTS. Previously, he was Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in Biostatistics in 2000 from the University of Michigan. He was the recipient of the 2002 David P. Byar Young Investigator Award from the American Statistical Association Biometrics Section. Dr. Roy is interested in methodological research in developing flexible Bayesian methods for large, observational studies, especially data from EHR and mobile health. He is particularly interested in causal inference problems, where Bayesian nonparametric methods can be used in conjunction with g-computation. He is also interested in functional clustering methods, which can be very useful for extracting features from intensively collected data (such as from mobile devices). Much of his collaborative research is in pharmacoepidemiology.

INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

1-1 Statistical and Critical Thinking
1-2 Types of Data
1-3 Collecting Sample Data
1-4 Ethics in Statistics (download only)


EXPLORING DATA WITH TABLES AND GRAPHS


2-1 Frequency Distributions for Organizing and Summarizing Data
2-2 Histograms
2-3 Graphs That Enlighten and Graphs That Deceive
2-4 Scatterplots, Correlation, and Regression


DESCRIBING, EXPLORING, AND COMPARING DATA

3-1 Measures of Center
3-2 Measures of Variation
3-3 Measures of Relative Standing and Boxplots


PROBABILITY

4-1 Basic Concepts of Probability
4-2 Addition Rule and Multiplication Rule
4-3 Complements, Conditional Probability, and Bayes' Theorem
4-4 Risks and Odds
4-5 Rates of Mortality, Fertility, and Morbidity
4-6 Counting


DISCRETE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

5-1 Probability Distributions
5-2 Binomial Probability Distributions
5-3 Poisson Probability Distributions


NORMAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

6-1 The Standard Normal Distribution
6-2 Real Applications of Normal Distributions
6-3 Sampling Distributions and Estimators
6-4 The Central Limit Theorem
6-5 Assessing Normality
6-6 Normal as Approximation to Binomial (download only)


ESTIMATING PARAMETERS AND DETERMINING SAMPLE SIZES

7-1 Estimating a Population Proportion
7-2 Estimating a Population Mean
7-3 Estimating a Population Standard Deviation or Variance
7-4 Bootstrapping: Using Technology for Estimates


HYPOTHESIS TESTING

8-1 Basics of Hypothesis Testing
8-2 Testing a Claim About a Proportion
8-3 Testing a Claim About a Mean
8-4 Testing a Claim About a Standard Deviation or Variance
8-5 Resampling: Using Technology for Hypothesis Testing


INFERENCES FROM TWO SAMPLES

9-1 Two Proportions
9-2 Two Means: Independent Samples
9-3 Matched Pairs
9-4 Two Variances or Standard Deviations
9-5 Resampling: Using Technology for Inferences


CORRELATION AND REGRESSION

10-1 Correlation
10-2 Regression
10-3 Prediction Intervals and Variation
10-4 Multiple Regression
10-5 Dummy Variables and Logistic Regression


GOODNESS-OF-FIT AND CONTINGENCY TABLES

11-1 Goodness-of-Fit
11-2 Contingency Tables


ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE

12-1 One-Way ANOVA
12-2 Two-Way ANOVA


NONPARAMETRIC TESTS

13-1 Basics of Nonparametric Tests
13-2 Sign Test
13-3 Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test for Matched Pairs
13-4 Wilcoxon Rank-Sum Test for Two Independent Samples
13-5 Kruskal-Wallis Test for Three or More Samples
13-6 Rank Correlation


SURVIVAL ANALYSIS

14-1 Life Tables
14-2 Kaplan-Meier Survival Analysis





APPENDICES A: Tables and Formulas B: Data Sets C: Websites and Bibliography of Books D: Answers to Odd-Numbered Section Exercises (and all Quick Quizzes, all Review Exercises, and all Cumulative Review Exercises) Subject Index