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LECTURES:
(Begin Tues, 23 March - Thurs, 20 May; Reminder: NO CLASS March 30 and April 22

10:30 am - 12 noon  Tuesday, Thursday

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

(Begins Wed, 31 March - Wed, 5 May; NO JT LAB on 14 April)

Consulting Labs for Biostatistical Consultation on Course Projects

        (Begins Wed, 24 Mar - Wed, 19 May for PM labs; Mon, 29 Mar for AM labs)
        NO TA LABS on Tues Mar 30, Wed Apr 14, Thurs Apr 22, Fri Apr 30)

Mon - Fri	2:30 PM  - 4:30 PM	One on One 20 minute Zoom sessions
Mon, Wed	9:00 AM  - 11:00 AM	One on One 20 minute Zoom sessions

Log-in to schedule a Daily TA Help Session
Sign-up for one 20-min session initially – if there are openings after 2:30 pm, you may sign-up for another session

Before your 1st Consulting Session, please click to read the instructions

INSTRUCTORS: 

James Tonascia, PhD

Laura Wilson, ScM

Katherine Yates, ScM

Emily Sharkey, MPH, MBA

TEACHING ASSISTANTS:

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.

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 4 things:  e-Quizzes, draft abstract, project, exam
  • Exam is optional, but required for grade of A

• Weights with and without exam



With	Without
20%	33%	e-Quizzes (5 of these)
39%	65%	Data analysis project
1%	2%	Preliminary abstract
40%	N/A	Exam

WEBCASTS and RECORDINGS:

• Each class is webcast
• Each JT LAB is webcast
• Link to webcasts available on CLASSES tab
• Link to recordings available on CLASSES or E-QUIZZES tabs

TEXTBOOK:

John H. McDonald: Handbook of Biological Statistics, 3rd Edition, 2014, Sparky House Publishing, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

• Online: Introduction - Handbook of Biological Statistics (biostathandbook.com)
  Printed version for $18: Handbook of Biological Statistics (lulu.com)
  You can also download a free pdf of the print version.
  Non-commercial reproduction of this content, with attribution, is permitted; for-profit reproduction without permission is prohibited.

Also recommended (optional):

• Bernard Rosner: Fundamentals of Biostatistics, 7th Edition,
  2011, Duxbury Press, Pacific Grove, CA  
• Hamilton, L: Statistics with Stata, Updated for
  Version 12, 2013. (available at link)
• Michael N Mitchell: A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics (A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics: Mitchell, Michael N.: 9781597181068: (avaliable at amazon.com)

COMPUTING PACKAGE:

• Stata 16, Stata Press, College Station, Texas (www.stata.com)

• Or R (https://cran.r-project.org/), RStudio (https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/),
  and R Commander (https://www.rcommander.com/)

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:

• Course Project

• SUBMIT Project
• Template PowerPoint file with project advice
• SUBMIT Draft Abstract

• Links to possible datasets

• BMJ - How to Write a Scientific Paper

• STATA Help Links
  • Stata tutorial (and other good stuff) from German Rodriguez (Princeton)
    http://data.princeton.edu/stata/default.html
  • Stata programming tips from TAs
  • Stata for the Struggling SAS Mind 
  • Stata cheat sheets 
• R Help Links
  • Quick-R Introduction to R
  • Installing R, RStudio, and R Commander
  • Getting Started: R to Stata
  • Dictionary: R to Stata
  • R for SAS and SPSS_Users
• Free sample size software:

  • Dupont & Plummer at Vanderbilt University (2009): http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/PowerSampleSize

• Visual overview for creating graphs in Stata
  

• Boston College Stata Archive

• "Missing data and informative censoring -- BMJ paper"
  • http://www.biomedcentral.com/1468-6708/3/4/

Sample survey weights in regression models not always needed

• Sampling Weights and Regression Analysis – C. Winship, L Radbill Sociological Methods & Research 1994 23: 230

• R Young, DR Johnson: To Weight or Not to Weight, That is the Question: Survey Weights and Multivariate Analysis; Penn State Population Research Institute

• Various methodological topics - BMC Medical Research Methodology
  • http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/

• 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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