Basic Biostatistics, fall 2016: Lectures


Place

Lectures at Wednesdays mornings (9.15 - 12.00): 14, 21, 28 September, 5, 12, 19, 26. October, 2. November.
It takes place in: Fysiologisk auditorium byg. 1162 lok. 01.

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.

Overview

An overview: Overview.pdf

Mac users should download "Symbol MT" for proper reading of the pdf files

Lecture plan

No Time Topic Literature Overheads Do-files Video Standard analysis         Data used in the lectures
(Stata: .dta, SPSS: .sav, Excel:.xls)
1 Wednesday
September 14
9.15 to 12.00
Introduction
One normal sample
Chapter 1-6, 8.4-5 day1.pdf
day1_onepage.pdf
QQcatalog
day1.do
BMIanalysis.do
Descriptive statistics
Structure the do file
Evaluating normality
Standard1-1.pdf bmiwomen.dta
bmiwomen.sav
bmiwomen.xls
2 Wednesday
September 21
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
day2_onepage.pdf
day2.do Log-transformations
Standard2-1.pdf normtemp.dta  fishoil.dta  bwsmoking.dta
normtemp.sav  fishoil.sav  bwsmoking.sav 
normtemp.xls  fishoil.xls  bwsmoking.xls 
3 Wednesday
September 28
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
day3_onepage.pdf
BAcatalog
day3.do
Standard3-1.pdf
Standard3-2.pdf
energy.dta  albumin.dta 
T4T8.dta pefrwright.dta
energy.sav  albumin.sav 
T4T8.sav pefrwright.sav
energy.xls  albumin.xls 
T4T8.xls pefrwright.xls
4 Wednesday
October 5
9.15 to 12.00
One and two binomial samples
Paired data
Cross-tabulated data
Chapter 14-17
21.1-3, Table 35.1
day4.pdf
day4_onepage.pdf
day4.do Standard4-1.pdf
Standard4-2.pdf
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
October 12
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
day5_onepage.pdf
day5.do Standard5-1.pdf plasma.dta  pefr.dta 
plasma.sav  pefr.sav 
plasma.xls  pefr.xls 
6 Wednesday
October 19
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
day6_onepage.pdf
day6.do haemoglob.dta
haemoglob.sav
haemoglob.xls
7 Wednesday
October 26
9.15 to 12.00
Logistic regression
with one categorical
and one covariate
Chapter 16.6-7
19.1-3
19.5
day7.pdf
day7_onepage.pdf
day7.do Standard7-1.pdf postterm.dta
postterm.sav
postterm.xls
8 Wednesday
November 2
9.15 to 12.00
Time to event
Cox regression
Incidence rates
Chapter 26.1, 26.3-5
27
22.1-3,22.5, 23.1-2
day8.pdf
day8_onepage.pdf
LMLcatalog
day8.do Standard8-1.pdf meldates.dta
meldates.sav
meldates.xls


Author: parner@biostat.au.dk (Erik Parner)