PubHlth 640
Intermediate Biostatistics
Biostatistics and Epidemiology
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Week 4: February 13-17, 2012
This week we finish Unit 2 - cb.
__1. pp 64-80 of course notes 2. Regression and Correlation (pdf, 80 pp)
__2. (Source: JHSPH Open Course Ware Course - Statistical Reasoning II John McGready, Instructor) Lecture 6b: More Details About Multiple Linear egression. See especially pp 24-36 (html)
__3. (Source: UCLA Academic Technology Services) For STATA Users: Linear Regression Diagnostics (html)
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Stata v 12 Illustration - Multiple Linear Regression: Human p53 and Breast Cancer Risk (pdf, 16 pp)

Week 3: February 6-10, 2012
__1. Continue reading course notes, focusing on multiple linear regression: 2. Regression and Correlation (pdf, 80 pp)
__2. Text: Rosner B. Fundamentals of Biostatistics, Seventh Edition. Brooks/Cole Cengage, 2011. Chapter 11 (Regression) Sections 6-11 pp 448-494
__3. Optional, recommended: JHSPH Open Course Ware Course, Statistical Reasoning II: Selected Lectures by John McGready
___________(a) Relating a Continuous Outcome to More than 1 Predictor: Multiple Linear Regression (html)
___________(b) More Examples (html)
___________(c) Variability in Multiple Linear Regression: Assessing Uncertainty and Goodness of Fit (html)
___________(d) Handling Multiple Categorical Predictors in Multiple Linear Regression (html)
___________(e) More Multiple Linear Regression (html)
__4. Practice problems for unit 2,
due Monday February 13, 2012 (pdf, 7 pp)
__ Data sets for practice problems:
RIGHT click on data set name to download to your desktop
STATA users: For question 3 (week02.dta) For question 6 (week03.dta)
SAS users: For question 3 (temp.sas7bdat) For question 6 (week03.sas7bdat)
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SOLUTIONS to practice problems for unit 2: Solutions for STATA Users (pdf, 19 pp) Solutions for SAS Users (pdf, 22 pp)
__6 Stata v 12 Illustration - A First Session (pdf, 18 pp)
__7.
Stata v 12 Illustration - Simple Linear Regression: Emergency Calls to the NY Auto Club ( pdf, 12 pp)
__8.
SAS Illustration - Simple Linear Regression: Emergency Calls to the NY Auto Club (pdf, 11 pp) RIGHT click to download data (ers.sas7bdat)

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