This post serves as the syllabus and curriculum for the quarterly statistics course offered by the Washington University Pathology Department for residents and clinical fellows.

The structure of this one-week course will be a 1hr meeting once a day at which we will discuss focus issues in statistics and study design. Each day there will be several study assignments that will not take more than a couple hours. Many of the topics will be supplemented with hands-on exercises with Excel. There will be a painless pop quiz at the end to assess how much we have learned.

Here are the lectures for each day. Please read them before coming to class.

Day 1:

Data Types
Probability Density Functions
Hypothesis Testing
One and Two Tailed Tests
Z and T Tests

Day 2:

Multiple Testing
Bonferroni Correction

Day 3:

Normal Distribution
Standard Error
Sampling Distribution
Confidence Interval

Day 4:

Ovacheck
Potti