本課程中文授課,使用英文教科書。教室：學新館820

Statistics is once named as “The Grammar of Science” by Karl Pearson in 1891. This is not only a compliment, but more an emphasis to show the importance of statistics in knowing the probability and difference for research in all fields of science. In other words, any claim from observational difference to experimental significance relies on a solid and robust statistical analysis. As the field of statistics contains a broad spectrum from theoretical statistics to applied statistics, and from frequentist’s statistics to Bayesian’s statistics, this course “Applied Biostatistics” would focus on the classic and applied statistics, with an aim to equip students with the ability of using R language to perform statistical analyses, programing, and plotting.

The goals of “Applied Biostatistics” includes the instructions of the concepts and principles of classic statistics, with expectation that students who completed this course to have the ability of using standard statistical terminologies in scientific discussion, and the ability of applying the skills of R programing and plotting in personal research.

1. 本課程將學習以R程式進行統計分析。學生將以手算結果與R分析結果相互驗證。本課程將學習基礎R語言，歡迎沒有使用過R語言的同學。 2. 每位學生需自備筆電與科學計算機以利作業與考試進行。 1. This is a statistic course based on R programming. Students will need to hand-calculate and learn how to use R to match the results. No R background is needed. 2. Students need to prepare a personal scientific calculator/laptop for exams

#For each midterm and final, you are allowed to bring a single A4 page cheat-sheet. You may write down any formula, note, and even draw tables and figures to assist you pass the exam. You are not allowed to write down any exact examples in the cheat-sheet. If you bring a cheat-sheet to the exam, you will need to turn in the cheat-sheet together with your exam papers.