Introduction to Biostatistics (BIOSTAT 201A) - Fall 2025
Graduate (MPH), UCLA Dept. of Biostatistics, 2025
I serve as a Teaching Assistant (TA) for Introduction to Biostatistics (BIOSTAT200A), taught by Dr. Joseph Zoller for Fall 2025 Quarter.
About Discussion Slides and Materials
These materials are intended for students and future teaching assistants for this course. Students learning statistics for biology or public health may also find these slides helpful as well.
If you choose to use these slides for teaching purposes, please include some acknowledgement that these slides were created by me (i.e., “Slide Courtesy of Cindy J. Pang”). Many of these slides are adapted from slides I made from courses in the past such as BIOSTAT 100A and notes that I’ve organized throughout graduate school.
Note about Exercises: Many of the exercises are adapted/modified from Fundamentals of Biostatistics, Bernard Rosner, 2nd edition, written with ChatGPT, or adapted from homework problems.
Discussion Material & Slides
Please note that schedule is subject to change!!!
| Discussion | Content | Blank Slides | Annotated Slides/Exercise Answers |
| 1 | Introduction to Rguroo | Tutorial Powerpoint, Rguroo Exercise | |
| 2 | Fundamentals of Biostatistics (L1-L4) - Population vs. Sample, Parameter vs. Statistic, Types of Data; Summary Statistics, Data Visualization; Probability, Conditioning, and Independence; Random Variables, Sampling, and Central Limit Theorem | Slides (PDF), Slides (PPTX), Exercise | Annotated Slides, Exercise Key |
| 3 | One-Sample Inference (L5-L6) - Point and Confidence Interval Estimation for Population Means and Proportions | Slides (PDF), Slides (PPTX) | Annotated Slides and KEY |
| 4 | Midterm Review | Kahoot | |
| 5 | Midterm Debrief | ||
| 6 | Two-Sample Inference (L8-10) - Two Sample Inference for Paired Data, Independent Samples | Slides (PDF), Slides (PPTX) | Annotated Slides and KEY |
| 7 | Two-Sample Categorical Data (part 1) (L11-12) - Difference in Proportions, Chi-Square Test of Independence | Slides (PDF), Slides (PPTX) | Annotated Slides and KEY |
| 8 | Two-Sample Categorical Data (part 2) (L13-14) - Fisher’s Exact Test, McNemar’s Test for Paired Proportions | Slides (PPTX), they have animations!, Exercise | Exercise KEY |