140.655.01 - Third Term 2009 LONGITUDINAL DATA ANALYSIS Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

COURSE INFO

INSTRUCTOR:

Francesca Dominici (e-mail for theoretical questions) - Office Hour: Monday noon-1pm Room E3634

TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

Bruce Swihart

Haley Hedlin

Howard Chang

Please post your questions to the CoursePlus Bulletin Board.

TA office hours - Tuesdays 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM in W2017

LECTURES: Mondays and Wednesdays 10:30 am - 11:50 am, Room W1020 (Becton-Dickinson Auditorium)

LABS:

STATA version 10.0 (and its free update to 10.1) are supported for labs, homeworks, and exams.

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

On Wednesday Februrary 11, Lecture: 9:00 till 10:30 AM. Lab begins at 10:30 AM.

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
• FAQ from 2005

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.