140.655.01 - Third Term 2008 LONGITUDINAL DATA ANALYSIS Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

COURSE INFO

INSTRUCTOR:

Francesca Dominici (e-mail for theoretical questions) - Office Hour: Wednesdays 12pm - 1pm in E3634
TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

Sandy Eckel

Howard Chang

Jessica Myers
Please post your questions to the CoursePlus Bulletin Board.
TA office hours - Mondays 12-12:50pm, room W4007
LECTURES: Mondays and Wednesdays 10:30 am - 11:50 am, Room W1020 (Becton-Dickinson Auditorium)
LABS:

Formal presentation - Monday 9:00 am - 10:15 am, Room W1020

Question and Answer - Wednesday 9:00 am - 10:15 am, Room W1020
SYLLABUS

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Final exam solution is posted. You may pick up your graded finals in Mark Chiveral's office W3604 starting Monday March 23.

COURSE CONTENT

LECTURES

LABS

HOMEWORK

EXAMS

DATA SETS

SOFTWARE

REFERENCES

EXTRAS

• Suggested Reading: [Baltagi_Wu.pdf] This paper describes the method STATA uses to deal with unbalanced data in the xtregar command.
• Notes on Matrix Calculus:   matrix notes 1 (basic) [pdf];  matrix notes 1b (more comphrensive basics) [pdf];
  matrix notes 2 (regression) [pdf]; 2x2 matrix inverse[pdf]
  
• Stata command of gllamm and example: http://www.gllamm.org/books/ichs.html
• New! FAQ.2005.doc

Acknowledgments

This web page contains lecture notes, examples, data sets, and software also developed by students and colleagues. In particular we would like to recognize Dr. Scott L. Zeger, Dr. Marie Davidian, Dr. Paul Rathouz, Dr. Rafael Irizarry, Dr. Aidan McDermott, Dr. Michael Griswold, and many biostatistics students for their invaluable contributions to the materials used for this course.