BIOS601 AGENDA: Tuesday September 06, 2011
[updated August 29, 2011]
Agenda for Tuesday Sept 06, 2011
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"break-the-ice" w.r.t. communication
On Sept 06, JH will 'break the ice' with a short powerpoint presentation '120 second bio' telling you
a bit about where he was born and schooled, and the positions he had before coming to McGill.
On each subsequent class, he will ask a student to tell the rest of us a bit about him/herself. The main purpose is to
give students some practice in presenation skills, but starting with material where you are the expert and
where the focus and eyes will less on you and more on what pictures you show us.
So, ...
either
(a) bring one or 2 (preferably digital) photos to share with the class: e.g. from a
vacation or trip, or family, or showing the country/region/place you come from, etc. etc.
[it's a less stressful way to get up in public and tell us a small bit about yourself.]
{use this assignment as a way to get familiar with Powerpoint, or -- BETTER STILL --
with statisticians' favourite presentation tool: the
Beamer class in
LateX. Indeed, to start you off here is a useful Beamer link }
{There is already a computer and projector in the classroom. If you wish, you can email
the presentation to JH ahead of time so he can have it pre-loaded on his computer: don't worry:
he will delete it after the class}
or
(b) (on the classroom computer) show us some items from your facebook or a similar social-networking site!
- Discussion of questions in assignment on sampling of locations on Earth's surface
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Standard Deviation; Standard Error; Margin of of Error
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Use of Normal approximation to Binomial: Central Limit Theorem
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Use of Normal approximation to sampling distribution of sample mean: Central Limit Theorem
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Discussion of the research report
Changes in energy content of lunchtime purchases from fast food restaurants after introduction of calorie labelling: cross sectional customer surveys
To streamline your reading of the article, start with the Abstract and Tables, then the Methods..
and then (if you have time) the remainder...
You are expected to have read these key portions before the class, and to be ready to
comment on them.