2013 Cedars / UCLA statistics tutorial
5:30 -7 pm Wednesdays
This web page subject to updating –
Schedule subject to change
Presentation slides (subject to change)
Presentation 1 - July 10-study
design & descriptive stats
Presentation 2 - July
17-descriptive stats (including survival & binary data), Bayesian
Presentation 4-July
31-Statistical inference – Confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, p values,
power
Presentation 5 (Aug 7? optional?) -Intro to regression? –
Stats in literature ?
Articles
Womens Health Initiative (Hormone
replacement therapy)-JAMA 288: 321-333 17 July 2002
FASTER
trial for Downs Syndrome detection (Malone et. al. N Engl J Med 2005;353:19 Nov 10, 2005)
Coffee and
death (Freedman et.al. N Engl J Med
2012;366:1891-904, May 17, 2012)
Handy statistics functions in
EXCEL