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 Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

LECTURES:

10:30 am - 12 noon Tuesday, Thursday

• Sommer Hall  (Room E2014)
   
• Overflow room:  W3030
   
• Real-time link for next 10:30 lecture

JT LABS for review, questions, and help with e-Quizzes:

(begin Tues, 3 April; attend 1 session per week; lab registration not needed)

Lab 1:	Tuesday	3:30 PM - 5:20 PM	E2014 (Sommer Hall)
Lab 2:	Wednesday	3:30 PM - 5:20 PM	E2014 (Sommer Hall)
Lab 3:	Thursday	1:30 PM - 3:20 PM	E2014 (Sommer Hall)

COMPUTER LABS for Biostatistical/Stata help
  (begin Wed, 28 Mar)

Mon - Fri

2:30 PM  - 4:20 PM

W3025

INSTRUCTORS: 

James Tonascia, PhD

Mark Van Natta, MHS

TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

Kevin Fain Fang Han Katherine Lin Yi Lu Paige Maas Tom Prior Ah Young Shin Yifei Sun Elizabeth Sweeney    Sherlly Xie Jing-yan Yang Juemin Yang	Alka Ahuja Alyce Burke Erin Corless Allahna Esber Pat May  Diana Paksarian Efe Sezgin Ivana Vaughn   Christine Wei Laura Wilson Kathie Yates
Mark Chiveral Biostatistics Office: E3534

LECTURE NOTES:

Copies of lecture materials are distributed during class. Copies of most materials are available for downloading in the "Classes" section of the course web site.

Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to view materials posted on the website. 

Download Acrobat Reader

WEBSITE:

http://biostat.jhsph.edu/courses/bio624

Userid:  (given in class)

Password:  (given in class)

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

GRADING based on:

• 20% e-Quizzes (5 on-line quizzes)
• 50% Data Analysis Project: 
  • 1%   Draft Abstract (must be submitted on time)
  • 49% Project 

  Submit Abstract

• 30% Examination
  (in class; required for grade of A, optional otherwise)

AUDIO and ADOBE CONNECT:

Both audio mp3 files and Adobe Connect slides + audio of each lecture and the Wednesday LAB review are available under the "Classes" section of the website.  Links to real-time Adobe Connect for "offsite attendance" at lectures are on the home page prior to each lecture. 

TEXTBOOK:

Dupont, W. D. :  Statistical Modeling for Biomedical Researchers: A Simple Introduction to the Analysis of Complex Data, 2009,  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

• Links to Datasets and Lecture Notes accompanying the book
   

Also recommended (optional):

• Bernard Rosner: Fundamentals of Biostatistics, 7th Edition, 2010, Duxbury Press, Pacific Grove, CA
   

• Hamilton, L: Statistics with Stata, Updated for Version 10, 2009. (available at www.stata.com)
   
• Stata User's Guide and Reference Manuals
   
• Rabe-Hesketh S and Everitt B:  A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using Stata, Fourth Edition, 2007. (available at www.stata.com)

CALCULATOR:

Basic functions (+, -, x, ÷), logarithms and exponents, simple memory and recall, factorial key.  May be used during exam.

COMPUTING PACKAGE:

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

• Notes on setting up Stata for Biostatistics 624

• Stata for Macintosh

REGISTER FOR COURSE e-MAIL:

To receive course announcements and to receive credit for e-Quizzes, all students must register an e-Mail address

 

COURSE OBJECTIVE:

To expand students' abilities to conduct and report the results of valid statistical analysis of quantitative public health information.  To develop more advanced skills in multiple regression models, focusing on linear, logistic, and log-linear models and on techniques for evaluation of survival and longitudinal data.

OTHER LINKS:

• Annotated lectures and audio files

• Course project

  • Submitting your course paper

  • Word template for course project

  • Word table examples with formatting for project

  • Project tips from graders  

  • Detailed paper specifications
     

  • Submit Project

   

• Links to online datasets

• Stata tutorial (and other good stuff) from German Rodriguez (Princeton)
  http://data.princeton.edu/stata/default.html

• Stata for Macintosh website

• Stata tips

• Stata for the Struggling SAS Mind

• BSPH Computing requirements for online courses

• Free sample size software:

  • Dupont & Plummer at Vanderbilt University (2009) (Windows only): 

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

  • Java program SampleSize.jar from U. Wisconsin (works on PCs & Macs)

    • http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/landemets/  
       

  • CCT, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (web based):

    • http://www.cct.cuhk.edu.hk/stat/
       

• SurfStat -- on-line statistical tables:

  • http://surfstat.anu.edu.au/surfstat-home/tables/normal.php

• Free Statistical Calculator

• Free additional Stata commands -- for personal copies of Stata

• Stata error messages

• UCLA: Stata Portal -- great resource

• UCLA: Stata Graph Examples

• Boston College Stata Archive

• "Missing data and informative censoring -- BMJ paper"

  • http://www.biomedcentral.com/1468-6708/3/4/

• "Various methodological topics - BMC Medical Research Methodology"

  • http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/

• Interactive statistical applets:

  • Various: 

    • http://bcs.whfreeman.com/ips4e/pages/bcs/welcome_10.html
        (Click Statistical Applets)

  • Scatterplot: 

    • http://illuminations.nctm.org/index_d.aspx?id=456

• Math review

• Web-based statistical software

  • http://statpages.org/

• On-line statistics text:

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

• Spirometric Calculator

• Department of Biostatistics

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