Biostatistics
Doc. RNDr.
Tomáš Mrkvička, Ph.D. (mrkvicka@prf.jcu.cz,
tel.: 38 777 2700)
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writing part – 4
exercises (use of random variable, CLT, one or two sample tests, ANOVA or
regression). Parametric tests must be written in Excel, other in Statistica. It is permitted to bring any material for
writing part.
Writing part
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50 – 64 % - continue to oral part with +1 disadvantage
to the final mark.
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65 – 79 % - continue to oral part.
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80 – 100 % - continue to oral part with -1
advantage to the final mark. Oral part must be passed.
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Oral part - Questions
- Probability theory –
distribution of random variable, expectation, variance, independence.
- Processing of statistical
material, histogram and its relationship to random variable (density,
distribution function of random sample)
- Characteristics of location and
variance and its relationship to random variable (expectation, variance)
- Random sample, Poisson,
geometrical, uniform, exponential distribution
- Point estimate, confidence
intervals
- Distribution: normal, t, chi2,
F and its quintiles.
- Parametrical tests with assumption
of normality
- Tests with use of CLT
- non parametrical tests
- Anova – one way, two ways
- Nonparametric versions of ANOVA
- Friedman test versus Kruskal - Wallis test
- Linear regression with one
explanatory variable, linearizable models
- Linear regression with more
explanatory variable
- Polynomial regression, how to check
the degree of explanatory polynomial
- Dependence, correlation
coefficient and tests about it.
- Test chi2, testing
normality.
- Contingency tables.