BIOST 515/518 - University of Washington: WInter 2015

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Scott S. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington


Comments on plagiarism: At least one homework paper that was turned in ( plagiarism.doc ) was very obviously heavily plagiarizing my key from last year. I have highlighted (in gray) paragraph organization and sentence structure that was very clearly "cut-and-paste" from last year's key.

As has been repeatedly stated in course materials, this is unacceptable. I want students to totally understand what the statistical analyses mean, and by learning to phrase it in their own words, I can be more assured this is happening. I recognize that there will be some key phrases that will tend to be appear repeatedly (there are a relatively few ways that you can correctly state an interpretation for a confidence interval), but it should be short phrases that are memorized, not entire paragraphs.

I have suggested that students avoid looking at prior keys while they are actually writing up the answers to their homework.


Peer Graded Assignments: Homework #1 (graded assignments due Tue Jan 20, 5:00pm)
Peer comments for 1994.doc: 1023grading1994.doc Peer grade: 69    TA comments: JFgrading1994.doc    TA grade: 7    SSE adj: 0    SSE addl: 0    Points to 1994 from grading: 7
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Peer comments for 1660.docx: 1665grading1660.docx Peer grade: 68    TA comments: LSgrading1660.docx    TA grade: 6    SSE adj: 0    SSE addl: 0    Points to 1660 from grading: 10
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Peer comments for 1884.docx: 1932grading1884.docx Peer grade: 66    TA comments: LSgrading1884.docx    TA grade: 7    SSE adj: 0    SSE addl: 0    Points to 1884 from grading: 9
Peer comments for 1932.docx: 1947grading1932.docx Peer grade: 68    TA comments: LSgrading1932.docx    TA grade: 7    SSE adj: 0    SSE addl: 0    Points to 1932 from grading: 8
Peer comments for 1947.doc: 1976grading1947.doc Peer grade: 58    TA comments: LSgrading1947.doc    TA grade: 3    SSE adj: 0    SSE addl: 0    Points to 1947 from grading: 8
Peer comments for 1976.doc: 1980grading1976.doc Peer grade: 72    TA comments: LSgrading1976.doc    TA grade: 9    SSE adj: 0    SSE addl: 0    Points to 1976 from grading: 8
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Peer comments for 1983.doc: 1994grading1983.docx Peer grade: 58    TA comments: LSgrading1983.doc    TA grade: 8    SSE adj: 0    SSE addl: 0    Points to 1983 from grading: 10