BIST/TBIO 502 Applied Biostatistics

Fall 2006 Syllabus  -  This course will now be a SPRING course with BIST501 as a prerequisite

 Time and Location:    Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00-2:30 PM, Room SW107-2 Med-Dent 

Faculty:           Dr. Lei Nie (course master), 202-687-7532, ln54@georgetown.edu
                               Dr. Christopher Loffredo, 202-687-3758, cal9@georgetown.edu
                               Dr. Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch, 202-687-2511, seillier@georgetown.edu 

Date

Day

Topics

Chapters

Faculty

Aug 31

Th

Review of  basic statistics

1-3

LN

Sep 5

Tu

Regression analysis

4-5

LN

Sep 7 

Th

Regression analysis

6-7

LN

Sep 12

Tu

Multiple regression

8

LN

Sep 14

Th

Hypothesis testing

9

LN

Sep 19

Tu

Correlations (multiple and partial)

10

LN

Sep 21

Th

Regression (confounding and interaction)

11

LN

Sep 26

Tu

Regression (diagnosis, dummy variables)

12,14

LN

Sep 28

Th

Polynomial regression

13

LN

Oct 3

Tu

Analysis of covariance and other methods

15

LN

Oct 5

Th

Multiple regression (model selection)

16

LN

Oct 10

Tu

Analysis of variance (fixed )

17

LN

Oct 12

Th

Analysis of variance (random)

18

LN

Oct 17

Tu

Review session

Oct 19

Th

MIDTERM EXAM

Oct 24

Tu

Analysis of variance (2 way)

19-20

LN

Oct 26

Th

Repeated measures

21

LN

Oct 31

Tu

Maximum likelihood

22

FSM

Nov 2

Th

Logistic regression

23

FSM

Nov 7

Tu

Poisson regression

24

FSM

Nov 9

Th

Principal component, factor and  discriminant analyses

handout

FSM

Nov 14

Tu

Epidemiology study designs

handout

CL

Nov 16

Th

Statistical inference in epidemiology

handout

CL

Nov 21

Tu

Clinical trials

handout

CL

Nov 23

Th

THANKSGIVING

Nov 28

Tu

Analysis of clinical trials

handout

CL

Nov 30

Th

Sensitivity and specificity analyses

handout

CL

Dec 5

Tu

Power and sample size determination

handout

CL

Dec 7

Th

Review session

Dec ?

 

FINAL EXAM

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