Biostat 537 Lecture Files -- 2005

General
- Overview of Each Day = a log of what was covered in class (refresh)
Week 1
- 04 Jan 2005 Notes: Introduction 1
- 04 Jan 2005 Notes: Introduction 2
Week 2
- 11 Jan 2005 Notes: One Sample Summaries
- 11 Jan 2005 Herpes.raw Example Data.
- 11 Jan 2005 Herpes.doc Data Documentation.
- 11 Jan 2005 HerpesDiscrete-do.txt STATA Do File
- 11 Jan 2005 HerpesParametric-do.txt STATA Do File
- 11 Jan 2005 HerpesKM-do.txt STATA Do File
- 13 Jan 2005 Notes: Testing Survival Curves
- 13 Jan 2005 HerpesLogRank-do.txt STATA Do file -- updated 17 Jan 2005
Week 3
- 18 Jan 2005 Notes: Testing Survival Curves -- updated 17 Jan 2005
- 18 Jan 2005 LogRankSim.q -- an S+/R file to simulate data and evaluate various 2-sample tests.
- 18 Jan 2005 Kernel Density Estimator -- an applet showing the estimate of a density function, with different bandwidths and/or kernels.
- 20 Jan 2005 Notes: Intro Cox Regression
- 20 Jan 2005 HerpesCoxRegn-do.txt STATA Do File
Week 4
- 25 Jan 2005 Notes: Cox Regression Summaries, and Stratified Cox Regression
- 25 Jan 2005 HerpesCoxS0-do.txt STATA Do File
- 25 Jan 2005 HerpesCoxStrata-do.txt STATA Do File
- 27 Jan 2005 Notes: Competing Risks
- 27 Jan 2005 Veronesi et al. (1995) -- article that presents analysis of competing risks.
- 27 Jan 2005 cmprsk.pdf -- documentation / description of S+/R package to create cumulative incidence curves.
Week 5
- 01 Feb 2005 Notes: Left Truncation (updated 03 Feb 2005)
- 01 Feb 2005 nickel-do.txt -- STATA example analysis.
- 01 Feb 2005 nickel.raw -- Example data.
- 01 Feb 2005 Kaldor-JNCI1986.pdf -- published analysis of cohort.
- 01 Feb 2005 Notes: Checking PH Assumption
- 01 Feb 2005 HerpesPHcheck-do.txt -- STATA example analysis.
- 01 Feb 2005 addicts-do.txt -- STATA example analysis.
- 01 Feb 2005 addicts.raw -- Example data.
- 03 Feb 2005 BreslowDay-nickel.pdf -- Breslow & Day's presentation of nickel refiners analysis.
- 03 Feb 2005 Korn-AJE1997.pdf -- an Am J Epi paper discussing choice of time scales.
- 03 Feb 2005 midterm.raw -- data for take-home part of midterm -- NOTE -- there is one "0" value for the variable "condition" -- this value is an error. I have checked the documentation from 1980, and this is the value in the data base. Your analysis will need to address this issue when necessary.
- 03 Feb 2005 midterm.txt -- documentation for midterm data.
- 03 Feb 2005 midterm2004.doc -- midterm exam from 2004 -- some practice questions for in-class exam.
Week 6
- 08 Feb 2005 Notes: Cox Regression with Time-Dependent Covariates
- 08 Feb 2005 HerpesTVC-do.txt ---- STATA example using herpes data
- 08 Feb 2005 heart-do.txt ---- STATA example using time-dependent covariate
- 08 Feb 2005 heart.raw ---- Data
Week 7
- 15 Feb 2005 Scribner-CancerResearch1983.pdf -- example discussed in lecture notes on pp. 422-430
- 15 Feb 2005 Lagarde-Epidemiology2004.pdf ---- recent example with time-dependent covariates.
- 17 Feb 2005 heart2-do.txt ---- another way to setup for a time-dependent covariate -- using start and stop times.
Week 8
- 22 Feb 2005 Notes: Model Choice and Model Checking
- 22 Feb 2005 mayo-do.txt ---- STATA code for the analysis of the Mayo PBC data.
- 22 Feb 2005 mayo.raw ---- Mayo PBC data
- 24 Feb 2005 Notes: Predictive Models
- 24 Feb 2005 mayoAIC-do.txt ---- STATA code for the analysis of the Mayo PBC data.
- 24 Feb 2005 mayoROC-do.txt ---- STATA code for the analysis of the Mayo PBC data.
Week 9
- 01 Mar 2005 Notes: Alternative Epidemiologic Designs
- 01 Mar 2005 Essebag-2003AmHeartJ.pdf ---- article that overviews nested case-control designs, and comments on case-cohort designs.
- 01 Mar 2005 Wacholder-1991Epidemiology.pdf ---- article that compares nested case-control and case-cohort designs in terms of practical issues.
- 03 Mar 2005 Notes: Intro Poisson Regression
- 03 Mar 2005 thall-do.txt ---- STATA code for the analysis of the seizure treatment trial data.
- 03 Mar 2005 ThallWide.raw ---- Progabide and Seizures data
Week 10
- 08 Mar 2005 Notes: Poisson Regression and Grouped Survival Data
- 08 Mar 2005 mayoPoisson-do.txt ---- analysis of Tx for the Mayo PBC Data
- 08 Mar 2005 MayoTimeDepData.raw ---- Mayo PBC Data expanded into multiple time periods per subject
- 10 Mar 2005 Notes: Grouped Survival Example, and Summary
- 10 Mar 2005 montana-do.txt ---- analysis of the Montana Smelter Data
- 10 Mar 2005 montana.raw ---- Montana Smelter Data
- 10 Mar 2005 FinalFormulae.pdf ---- handout that will accompany in-class final exam.