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 Winter Term
 January 9 - 13, 2012

INSTRUCTOR and Teaching Assistants:

• Richard Thompson
  Instructor
  Department of Biostatistics
   

• Alison Turnbull
  Department of Epidemiology
   

• Lynn Huynh
  Department of Epidemiology
   

• Jenna Krall
  Department of Biostatistics

LECTURES:

8:30 am - 9:30 am  Monday - Friday
Room W2008

LABS for review, questions, and help with exercises:

9:45 am - noon  Monday - Friday
Room W2008

LECTURE NOTES:

Hard copy of lecture notes and most other course materials are distributed during class. Purchase of these materials is included in registration. Copies of most materials are available for downloading in the "Classes" section of the course web site.

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WEB SITE:

http://biostat.jhsph.edu/courses/bio613/

Userid:  bio613

Password:  (given in class)

Contains course schedule, office hours, lecture notes, quizzes, solution keys, data sets, and Stata examples

TEXTBOOK:

Hamilton, L: Statistics with Stata 10

Also recommended (optional):

• Bernard Rosner.
  Fundamentals of Biostatistics 2000, Duxbury Press, Pacific Grove, CA

• Stata User's Guide and Reference Manuals

• Rabe-Hesketh S and Everitt B:  A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using Stata, Second Edition  (more advanced)

CALCULATOR:

Basic functions (+, -, x, ÷), logarithms and exponents, simple memory and recall, factorial key.

COMPUTING PACKAGE:

Stata 11 or Stata 12, Stata Press, College Station, Texas (www.stata.com)

GRADING based on:

50% Exercises (3)
25% Class participation
25% Final exam (take home)

Students taking the course for credit may work together on exercises, but they must submit their own versions of the answers. 

e-REGISTER FOR COURSE e-MAIL:

To be considered part of the course, all students must register their e-mail address

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

To provide students with the ability to use statistical software to implement and critically evaluate common techniques of data analysis used with public health data.

OTHER LINKS:

• Course datasets

• Biostatistics 611 notes from John McGready

• Biostatistics 612 notes from John McGready

• Datasets from Hamilton's text

• Math review 

• Stata 8 Graph Library, courtesy of the UCLA Academic Technology Service:

  • http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/Library/GraphExamples/default.htm
               (Click on a graph to see its Stata 8 code)

• Free sample size software from Dupont & Plummer at Vanderbilt University: 

  • http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/PowerSampleSize

• On-line statistics text:

  • http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html

• Web-based statistical software:

  • http://statpages.org/

• Department of Biostatistics

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