Schedule

Schedule for Math 150, Methods in Biostatistics, Spring 2026

Here’s your roadmap for the semester! Each week, follow the general process outlined below:

• Enjoy the notes / text

• Attend class, review the warm-up and solution. Read the weekly article before class every Monday.

• Complete the HW assignment ( pdf & qmd linked below), submit the assignment via Gradescope from GitHub accessed on the course Canvas site. HW is due weekly on Thursday at 11:59pm.

• Homework assignments are found at the GitHub course organization. Due dates are provided on each assignment. See the course GitHub page for more information on how to find, complete, and submit assignments.

• There will be six in class quizzes.

• The textbook is Practicing Statistics, by Kuiper and Sklar. See Canvas for more information on the text.

date	agenda	readings	homework	article (Mon)	worksheets
Week 1 1.19.26	• t-tests + • SLR	Kuiper & Sklar: 2 introduction t-test t-test as SLR		Emma Benn	WS 1 - notation
Week 2 1.26.26	• SLR • contingency analysis	Kuiper & Sklar: 2 & 6 SLR categorical analysis	HW 1 - due 1.29.26	A/B testing at Netflix Rafael Irizarry
Week 3 2.2.26	• contingency analysis	Kuiper & Sklar: 6 types of studies RR and CI OR and CI	HW 2 - due 2.5.26 Quiz 1 on 2.6.26
Week 4 2.9.26	• logistic regression	Kuiper & Sklar: 7 logistic regression MLE	HW 3 - due 2.12.26
Week 5 2.16.26	• logistic regression	Kuiper & Sklar: 7 inference, logistic regression multiple logistic regression	HW 4 - due 2.19.26 Quiz 2 on 2.20.26
Week 6 2.23.26	• logistic regression	Kuiper & Sklar: 7 model process cross validation ROC	HW 5 - due 2.26.26
Week 7 3.2.26	• modeling	model building	HW 6 - due 3.5.26 Quiz 3 on 3.6.26
Week 8 3.9.26	• survival analysis	Kuiper & Sklar: 9 time to event KM curves
3.16.26	• Spring Break
Week 9 3.23.26	• survival analysis	Kuiper & Sklar: 9 KM curves KM CI	HW 7 - due 3.26.26
Week 10 3.30.26	• survival analysis	Kuiper & Sklar: 9 log rank tests hazard functions	HW 8 - due 4.2.26 Quiz 4 on 4.3.26
Week 11 4.6.26	• survival analysis	Kuiper & Sklar: 9 Cox PH model multiple Cox PH	HW 9 - due 4.9.26
Week 12 4.13.26	• survival analysis	Kuiper & Sklar: 9 assessing PH most published research	HW 10 - due 4.16.26 Quiz 5 on 4.17.26
Week 13 4.20.26	• multiple comparisons	multiple comparisons false discovery rate interim analyses	Project: EDA due 4.24.26
Week 14 4.27.26	• multiple comparisons	multiple comparisons false discovery rate interim analyses	HW 11 - due 4.30.26 Quiz 6 on 5.1.26
Week 15 5.4.26	• Poisson regression	Poisson regression	Project: Graphic in class 5.6.26
			Project: Final due 5.13.26