Biostatistics 140.623
 Statistical Methods in Public Health III

  Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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 Third Term
 January 19 - March 12, 2016

INSTRUCTORS: 

LECTURES:

10:30 am-12 pm Tuesday, Thursday

• Section 01:  Sommer Hall  (Room E2014)

• Section 02:  Sheldon Hall (Room W1214)

• Overflow room:  W1020

LABS for review of material through a structured exercise and time for questions:   Lab 1: Monday 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM  Hygiene W3008 Lab 2: Tuesday 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM  Hygiene W3008 Lab 3: Wednesday  1:30 PM - 3:00 PM  Hygiene W3008 Lab 4: Thursday 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM  Hygiene W3008 Lab 5:  Friday 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM  Hygiene W3008 Lab 6: Monday 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM  Hygiene W3008 Lab 7: Tuesday 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM  Hygiene W3008 Lab 8: Wednesday  3:30 PM - 5:00 PM  Hygiene W3008 Lab 9: Thursday 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM  Hygiene W3008 Note: 3:00 - 3:30PM is open time in lab for questions COMPUTER LAB for STATA help:     (starting Wednesday, January 21, optional) Monday - Friday 2:30 - 3:20 PM Hygiene W3017

LAB INSTRUCTORS:

• Marie Diener-West PhD

• John McGready, PhD

• Aaron Fisher (Lead TA)

• Jean-Philippe Fortin (Lead TA)

• David Lenis (Lead TA)

• Elizabeth Sweeney (Lead TA)

TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

Yibing Chen Yu Du Emily Huang Jordan Johns Youjin Lee Lu Li Shuiqing Liu   Haidong Lu Leslie Myint Huitong Qiu Claire Ruberman Genevieve Stein-O’Brien Yuting Xu Chao Yang

COMPUTER LAB for Stata help   (starting Wednesday, Jan 20) Mon thru Fri 2:30 PM  - 3:20 PM   Hygiene W3025

LECTURE NOTES: Copies of the course materials are distributed during class. Purchase of these materials is included in registration. Copies of most materials are available for downloading in the "Classes" section of the course web site. Acrobat Reader is needed for opening the course materials on the website. Download Acrobat Reader

WEB SITE: Available through CoursePlus or http://biostat.jhsph.edu/courses/bio623 Userid:  bio623 Password:  (given in class) Contains course schedule, office hours, lecture notes, self-evaluation problems, Stata lecture notes, problem sets, quizzes, solution keys, and data sets.

AUDIO FILES: An audio lecture is available and posted after each lecture on the course website in the "Classes" section.

TEXTBOOK: Recommended book for which we will provide reading assignments: Bernard Rosner, Fundamentals of Biostatistics, 2011,  Duxbury, Thomson Brooks/Cole, Belmont, CA. Suggested book: Lawrence C. Hamilton. Statistics with Stata 12 2013, Duxbury, Thomson Brooks/Cole, Belmont, CA.

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

COMPUTING PACKAGE: Stata 14 Intercooled, Stata Press, College Station, Texas (Buy at http://www.stata.com/order/new/edu/gradplans/campus-gradplan )

Course Policies: Attendance is required for quizzes and exams and expected for lectures and labs. Laptops and iPads may be used during lecture for class-related purposes. Common courtesy should be followed. Please email your faculty lecturer regarding extenuating circumstances or conflicts regarding course deadlines. Availability for course questions: after lecture, during labs, TA office hours, and Stata office hours.   Course Grade based on: 20% completion of 4 problem sets (points deducted if turned in late) 5% Quiz 1 (in class) 5% Quiz 2 (in class)   35% Midterm examination (in class) 35% Final examination (in class) Contact your section lecturer if you have a conflict, illness, or other issue. Quizzes and examinations are individual work for which a student must work by himself or herself. Problem sets may be worked on together and discussed. However, each student must write up the problem set individually using his or her own words. Copying work is not allowed. Disability Support Services If you are a student with a documented disability who requires an academic accommodation, please contact Betty H. Addison in the Office of Career Services and Disability Support: dss@jhsph.edu, 410-955-3034, or Room E-1140. Academic Ethics Code The code, discussed in the Policy and Procedure Memorandum for Students, March 31, 2002, will be adhered to in this class (https://my.jhsph.edu/Resources/PoliciesProcedures/ppm/Policy ProcedureMemoranda/Students 01 Academic Ethics.pdf) Students enrolled in the Bloomberg School of Public Health of The Johns Hopkins University assume an obligation to conduct themselves in a manner appropriate to the University's mission as an institution of higher education. A student is obligated to refrain from acts which he or she knows, or under the circumstances has reason to know, impair the academic integrity of the University.

OTHER LINKS  

• Graphical Interpretations of Regression Coefficients 
   

• Useful articles on the bootstrap

  • Champkin 2010

  • Boos and Stefanksi 2010
     

• "Fine Particulate Air Pollution and Mortality in 20 U.S. Cities"
  by Samet, Zeger, et al   (view article) 

• Stata Working Directories

• Stata Graphs using the Menus

• About Stata do-files  

• Data: Singular or Plural

• How juries are fooled by statistics

• Other Links to Math Trick

• Recommended Survival Analysis Text Books

• Gas Emissions and the Economy

• Biostatistics Poetry -2007

• Biostatistics Poetry, Musings and Art -- 2008

• Biostatistics Recipes    

• Biostatistics Poetry, etc                   

• Final Exam Formula Page

• Biostatistics 622 Final Exam - 2013
• Biostatistics 622 Final Exam Solution - 2013
   

• Biostatistics 140.622 Final Exam - 2012

• Biostatistics 140.622 Final Exam Solution - 2012

• Review 23 Jan 2013, 5PM, Sommer Hall  audio
   

• Review of Biostat 622 Final Exam - 2014:

  • Final Exam
  • Final Exam Solution
  • Audio file:
    • Part 1
    • Part 2

• Department of Biostatistics

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