Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

 

INSTRUCTOR and Teaching Assistantsts:

• Richard Thompson
  Instructor
  Department of Biostatistics

• Alison Turnbull
  Department of Epidemiology

• Lynn Huynh
  Department of Epidemiology

• Jenna Krall
  Department of Biostatistics

LECTURES:

8:15 am - 9:30 am  Monday - Friday
Room W2008

LABS for review, questions, and help with exercises:

9:45 am - noon  Tuesday - Friday
Room W2008

LECTURE NOTES:

Copies of lecture 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/bio614

Userid:  bio614

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

GRADING based on:

80% Exercises (4)
20% Class participation

Students taking the course for credit may work together on exercises and submit their answers with their group.

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

• 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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