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 3- July 24- Sensitivity, specificity, ROC, Bayesian – Prob dist:Normal, binomial, Poisson

       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)

      Vaginal Progesterone & pre term birth risk (Hassan et. al, Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2011; 38: 18–31)

      Coffee and death (Freedman et.al. N Engl J Med 2012;366:1891-904, May 17, 2012)

                   Handy statistics functions in EXCEL

                   Bibliography