We turned in the paperwork to have this renumbered to BIOM601 sometime during FY2002. The latter should accommodate the pre-physical therapy students now enrolled in BIOM401. Once BIOM401 is renumbered, we will be more likely to enforce the prerequisite of an undergrad statistics class. In BIOM601 Larry Douglass plans on going through descriptive statistics more quickly at the beginning in order to spend more time on regression and correlation at the end. Thursday classes and lab are at UMCP only.
Auditors can sit through the lecture without the lab.
We are proposing changing this to a single four credit class. I have added material on logistic regression and on regression models with correlated data in the last few years. Students need an understanding of randomized block experiments and factorial experiments prior to coming to the class, so BIOM602 is strongly recommended. This class is particularly appropriate for students dealing with response surface experiments or observational studies, including epidemiological and ecological applications. This class will also be helpful for students planning on taking a new class offered this spring in Environmental Statistics, taught by Dr. Christman.