15 October 2008
Advanced Methods in
Biostatistics II (140.752)
Course Information
Instructor
Thomas A. Louis, Hygiene E3545, 410-614-7838, tlouis@jhsph.edu
Availability: Drop by, make an appointment, email (please copy Hao)
Teaching
Assistant
Hao Wu, Hygiene E3037, 410-502-3365, hwu@jhsph.edu
Lab session:
Thursday: 9:15-10:15AM in W2033
Availability: Lab session, drop by, make an appointment, email a question
Lectures:
Tuesday & Thursday: 10:30-11:50
in Hygiene W2015
Course
web page
http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~tlouis/bio752-753/bio752-753.index.html
Introduction
to R:
http://www.biostat.wisc.edu/~kbroman/Rintro/.
Grading
3 Homeworks (50%): Best one
up to 20%; other two, up to 15%
Midterm (25%): Tuesday,
18 November
Take-home final (25%): Due (electronically) Friday, 26 December by 5pm
Homework
& Project Rules
Unless
otherwise noted
· Homework is due 10 days after assigned, but it’s best
to do it earlier
· You may discuss homework with other students, but what
you turn in must be your own work
(your own write-up,
your own computing, ...)
· You must email electronic copy to Hao
· Your take-home final must be done completely
independently. Electronic copy
must be emailed to (tlouis@jhsph.edu) by the
December 26th deadline.
Text:
There is no course text, but the
following will be used. Those with
an asterisk (*) are worth purchasing.
Recommended
Literature (** indicates a
primary source)
· Faraway J (2004). Linear Models with R, CRC Press
· Graybill FA (2000). Theory and Application of the Linear Model,
Wadsworth
· Hoaglin DC, Mosteller F, Tukey JW (1983). Understanding Robust and Exploratory Data Analysis. Wiley, New York
· Mosteller F, Tukey JW (1977). Data Analysis and
Regression. Addison Wesley, Reading MA
· ** Rice JA (2007). Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis 3rd
ed. Duxbury
· Scheffe H (1999). The Analysis of Variance, Wiley
· Searle SR (1997). Linear Models, Wiley
· Searle SR (1982). Matrix Algebra Useful for Statistics, Wiley
· ** Seber GA and Lee AJ (2003). Linear Regression Analysis, 2nd
ed., Wiley
· van Belle G (2008). Statistical Rules of Thumb, 2nd
edition, Wiley
· Venables WN and Ripley BD (2002). Modern Applied Statistics with S, Springer
· Weisberg S (1985). Applied Linear Regression, Wiley
Mathematical
Statistics
·
Mathematical
Statistics with Applications by W.
Mendenhall, D. D. Wackerly and R. L. Scheaffer (ISBN 0-534-92221-X)
·
John E. Freund's
Mathematical Statistics with Applications, Seventh Edition by Irwin Miller,
Marylees Miller
·
Introduction to
the Theory of Statistics, 3rd edition by Mood, Graybill, and Boes ISBN:
0070428646 (McGraw-Hill Companies)