Basic Biostatistics, Spring 2010: Lectures
Last updated January 5th 2010


Place

Auditorium "Samfundsmedicin" , building 1262.

Lecture plan

No Time Topic Literature Overheads Do-files Data
(Stata: .dta, SPSS: .sav, Excel:.xls)
1 Wednesday
September 2nd
9.15 to 12.00
Introduction
One normal sample
Chapter 1-6, 8.4-5 day1.pdf
V:28-8-09
day1.do bmiwomen.dta
bmiwomen.sav
bmiwomen.xls
2 Wednesday
September 9th
9.15 to 12.00
Logarithm and transformation
A note on logarithms
Two normal samples
Non-parametric methods
Sample size calculations
Chapter 13.1-3,
7.1-5, 8.4-5
30.1-2
(Wilcoxon rank sum test)

Table 35.1, 35.1-7
day2.pdf
V:3-9-09
day2.do fishoil.dta  bwsmoking.dta
fishoil.sav  bwsmoking.sav
fishoil.xls  bwsmoking.xls
3 Wednesday
September 16th
9.15 to 12.00
Paired data
Non-parametric methods
Transformations
Chapter 7.6
30.1-2
(Wilcoxon sign rank test)
, 36.4
day3.pdf
V:7-9-09
day3.do energy.dta  albumin.dta 
T4T8.dta
energy.sav  albumin.sav 
T4T8.sav
energy.xls  albumin.xls 
T4T8.xls
4 Wednesday
September 23rd
9.15 to 12.00
One and two binomial samples
Paired data
Cross-tabulated data
Chapter 14-16
17.1-5
21.1-3, Table 35.1
day4.pdf
V:17-09-09
day4.do cold.dta  water.dta  vaccine.dta 
smokers.dta  triceps.dta
cold.sav  water.sav  vaccine.sav 
smokers.sav  triceps.sav
cold.xls  water.xls  vaccine.xls 
smokers.xls  triceps.xls
5 Wednesday
September 30th
9.15 to 12.00
Linear regression
Correlation
Model diagnostics
Analysis of covariance
Chapter 10.1-2
10.3, 30.1-2
rank correlations
12.1-3
11.6
day5.pdf
V:23-09-09
day5.do plasma.dta  pefr.dta 
plasma.sav  pefr.sav 
plasma.xls  pefr.xls 
6 Wednesday
October 7th
9.15 to 12.00
One-way ANOVA
Kruskal-Wallis test
Chapter 9.1-2
10.4
30.1-2 Kruskal-Wallis test
day6.pdf
V:30-09-09
day6.do haemoglob.dta
haemoglob.sav
haemoglob.xls
7 Wednesday
October 14th
9.15 to 12.00
Logistic regression
with one categorical
and one covariate
Chapter 16.6-7
19.1-3
19.5
day7.pdf
V:09-10-09
day7.do postterm.dta
postterm.sav
postterm.xls
8 Wednesday
October 21st
9.15 to 12.00
Time to event
Cox regression
Incidence rates
Chapter 26.1, 26.3-4
27
22.1-3,22.5, 23.1-2
day8.pdf
V:14-10-09
day8.do meldates.dta
meldates.sav
meldates.xls

Important

You should expect to spend some time each week preparing for the course lectures and working on the exercises. Reserve one additional day each week for this.


Author: morten@biostat.au.dk (Morten Frydenberg) 2009-01-05