Final Exam Information

The class final will be held the Warren Lecture Hall (WLH), Rm. 2005, on 12/03/01 at 11:30 am.

Practice Materials

A practice mid-term and final exam are available. Please click below to access practice exams. Practice reviews are also available. The reviews are not necessarily indicative of the material on the mid-term and are meant to be used solely as guides once you have read the book, done the homework problems and labs.

1999 Mid-term	1999 Mid-term solutions
2001 Mid-term solutions
1999 Final Exam and Solutions	1999 Lab Final	2001 Midterm Review

The text is Hampton: Introductory Biological Statistics. The course will follow this book in general outline. The best general book is Statistics. 3rd ed. by D. Freedman, R. Pisani and R. Purves. (1998). In addition we recommend Zar, J. H. Biostatistical Analysis. The book is quite large, and has much more in it than you will need for this course. It will serve as a useful reference book if you intend to use statistics later on. Finally, Biometry, by R.R. Sokal and F.J. Rohlf is more detailed than either of the other books, but does not include a very important part of the course - nonparametric statistics. Selected readings from Hampton are indicated in schedule on the next page. The lab manual is short and required. It is available from soft reserves, or for downloading from the biometry website.

See the computer lab page

Exams and Grading Structure

Calculators are allowed in the exam, but they should only be used in simple math mode. In fact, we will try and make computations on the exams as simple as possible. You should bring in one page of Hand-written formulae to the class exams. The Lab final is held during your section time, and is entirely open-book.

Homework will be handed out each week, and is available online. Homeworks will be on the material covered during previous lectures. They will not be graded. They are similar in style to the exam questions, BUT THE MATH WILL BE MUCH SIMPLER IN THE EXAM, as you will be able to see from old exams I will post on the website. Solutions to both the homework and lab exercises will be posted on the web.

Students wanting additional questions can find them at the end of the relevant chapter of any textbook listed above.