Stat 220: Basic Statistics
Spring quarter 2007

Relevant links

Tutor & Study Center, nice place to study with free help from statistics grad students. All office hours are held here.
Rice virtual lab in statistics, containing an online statistics book, simulations, demonstrations and case studies. Some links that we will use are:
For looking up statistical/mathematical concepts:
- Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia
- Mathworld, an extensive mathematics resourse
Undergraduate mathematical sciences seminar
Relevant newspaper articles:
- About design of experiments: Acne drug articles
  - Acne drug `linked to depression', BBC news, September 19 2006
  - See also a previous article: Acne drug `should be banned', BBC news, May 17 2002
- About sampling: Estimating Iraqi casualties due to the war
  - The Iraqi war - counting the casualties, The Economist, November 4 2004
  - See also the original article in the Lancet (UW restricted): Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey, The Lancet, Vol 364, pages 1857-1864
- Recent news articles we'll discuss in Week 4:
  - Obesity at the time of prostate-cancer diagnosis dramatically increases the risk of dying from the disease, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, March 14 2007
  - Study of psychiatric drugs finds new is not better, The Seattle Times, Oct 3 2006
  - Cola raises women's osteoporosis risk, Forbes, Oct 6 2006
Data visualization software by Gapminder
Undergraduate conference about possible careers in the statistical sciences