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  First Term
  August 28 - October 21, 2008

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LECTURERS: 

• Marie Diener-West, PhD  (Section 01)
  Department of Biostatistics, Hygiene E3622
  Johns Hopkins University
  Bloomberg School of Public Health 
  phone:   410-502-6894
  fax:        410-955-0958
  Office Hours: TBA and by appointment

• Karen Bandeen-Roche, PhD  (Section 02)
  Department of Biostatistics, Hygiene E3527
  Johns Hopkins University
  Bloomberg School of Public Health
  phone: 410-955-3067
  fax:      410-955-0958
  Office Hours:  TBA and by appointment

 

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LECTURES:

10:30 am - 12 pm Tuesday, Thursday
Section 01:	Sommer Hall  (Room E2014)
Section 02:	Sheldon Hall (Room W1214)

 

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LABS for review, questions, and help with the problem sets:
Labs will start on Sep 2.
 

Lab 1:	Monday	1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Hygiene W3008
Lab 6:	Monday	3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Hygiene W3008
Lab 2:	Tuesday	1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Hygiene W3008
Lab 7:	Tuesday	3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Hygiene W3008
Lab 3:	Wednesday	1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Hygiene W3008
Lab 8:	Wednesday	3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Hygiene W3008
Lab 4:	Thursday	1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Hygiene W3008
Lab 9:	Thursday	3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Hygiene W3008
Lab 5:	Friday	1:30 PM - 3:00 PM	Hygiene W3008
Lab 10:	Friday	3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Hygiene W3008
Note: 3:00-3:30 is open time for questions
COMPUTER LAB for STATA help: (starting Tuesday, September 2, optional)
Monday - Friday		2:30 - 3:20 PM	Hygiene W3025

 

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LAB INSTRUCTORS:

Karen Bandeen-Roche Elizabeth Colantuoni Marie Diener-West Sonja Greven Matthew McCall (Lead TA) Henry Mwambi Nick Reich (Lead TA)

 

TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

Sandrah Eckel Alden Gross Nan Guo Lynn Huynh Juleen Lam

Tianjing Li Russell (Taki) Shinohara Michelle Silver Yaping Wang

 

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OFFICE HOURS for Teaching Assistants
(starting Tuesday, October 28, optional)
 

Mondays - Fridays,

12:15 PM  - 1:15 PM,

Hygiene W2009

 

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LECTURE NOTES:

• Copies of the transparencies used in the lectures are distributed weekly during class. Supplementary materials will be distributed as appropriate. Purchase of these materials is included in the registration. Copies of most materials are available for downloading in the "Classes" section of the course web site.

• Version 9.0 or higher of Acrobat Reader is needed for opening the course materials on the website.

Download Acrobat Reader
(version 9 required)

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WEB SITE:

• http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/courses/bio621
  
       Userid:  bio621 
  
       Password:  (given in class)
   

• Contains course schedule, office hours, lecture notes, problem sets, quizzes, and solution keys.

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DIGITAL AUDIO:

• Digitized audio is available on the course website after each lecture.

 

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TEXTBOOK:

• Lawrence C. Hamilton. Statistics with Stata, 2006, Duxbury Press, Belmont, CA.
   

• Recommended book for which we will provide reading assignments:
  Bernard Rosner, Fundamentals of Biostatistics, 2006, Duxbury  Press, Belmont, CA.

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CALCULATOR:

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

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COMPUTING PACKAGE:

• Intercooled Stata 10, Stata Press, College Station, Texas (www.stata.com)
   

• The Stata software package is required for this course sequence and can be obtained at a reduced academic rate. To purchase your own copy, please go to:  www.stata.com/gpdirect
   

• We recommend Intercooled Stata 10 and Getting Started Manual:

  • $155 for perpetual license (it’s yours forever)
            OR

  • $ 95 for one-year license

 

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GRADING based on:

• 5% Problem set 1 ( points deducted if turned in late)

• 5% Problem set 2 ( points deducted if turned in late)

• 5% Problem set 3 ( points deducted if turned in late)

• 5% Problem set 4 ( points deducted if turned in late)

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Students may work together, but must hand in their own version of the problems set -- DO NOT SUBMIT AN EXACT COPY of another student's work.

• 5% Quiz 1 (in class)

• 5% Quiz 2 (in class)

• 35% Midterm examination (in class)

• 35% Final examination (in class)

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COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• Use statistical reasoning to formulate public health questions in quantitative terms

• Design and interpret graphical and tabular displays of statistical information

• Use probability models to describe the trends and random variation in public health data

• Use statistical methods for inference, including tests and confidence intervals, to draw public health inferences from data

The course is designed to enable students to develop their data analysis skills.  Common important datasets will be analyzed by students using the statistical package Stata throughout the 621-624 course sequence.

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OTHER LINKS:

• Math Review

• Mathemagics

• Fast start

• Stata Overview Lecture - Audio

• "statz rappers"

• Student Health Survey

• Biostatistics Poetry and Art (2007) 

• Department of Biostatistics

• LINKS to Stata Information

  • Purchase Stata Grad Plan:  www.stata.com/gpdirect

  • Stata website

  • Stata

  : A Brief Introduction

  • Stata Introduction (audio)

  • More Stata Introduction

    • Stata Introduction Practice Solutions

    • self_practice.dta

  • Stata Tips:

    • Graph options for a simple background

    • Saving Stata graphs on a MAC
       

• LINKS to Other Sites

  • Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle

  • Sampling Distribution website

• More Applets for you to Try

  • http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/

  • Z-values:
    http://davidmlane.com/hyperstat/z_table.html

• Statistics and Voting

  • Do the math and vote

  • Bayesian inference

  • Margin of error and voting

• Baffled by Statistics

• Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey. The Lancet, Volume 364, Issue 9448, Pages 1857-1864 L. Roberts, R. Lafta, R. Garfield, J. Khudhairi, G. Burnham

• Medicine Residents' Understanding of the Biostatistics and Results in the Medical Literature.  JAMA. 2007; 298:1010-1022. DM Windish; SJ Huot; ML Green.

• The Reverend Thomas Bayes, FRS:  A Biography to Celebrate the Tercentenary of His Birth.  Statistical Science: 19(1):3-43. D.R. Bellhouse

• Type I and Type II Errors in Justice System

• "Dull Hypothesis"

• Some Extra Problems for Fun

• More Extra Problems for Fun

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