Cedars-Sinai
Biostatistics – Fall Quarter -Assignments and other material
Instructor: Jeff Gornbein gornbein@g.ucla.edu 310-825-4193
Class topics schedule
& texts (subject to change)
Handy EXCEL functions
Suggested texts: Petrie and Sabin (P&S) Medical Statistics at a Glance 3rd
ed, Blackwell Pub,
Reinhart A,
Statistics Done Wrong, No Starch Press 2015
Wainer Howard, Truth
or Truthiness, Cambridge University
Press 2015
Class presentation
slides by topic
Class notes:
Section
1-confounding, bias, study design
Section
2-descriptive stats, sensitivity & specificity, Bayesian stats
Section
3-probability distributions
Sections 4 and 5 – hypothesis testing (Section
4), power (Section 5)
Section
6-comparing means and analysis of variance (ANOVA)
Section
7-comparing proportions-chi square
Section
8a-simple regression - Section
8b-multiple regression
Section 9-logistic and poisson regression (may not be covered)
Section 10- Survival – in preparation
(see slides)
Semi
serious stat survey – a screening test (not for a grade)
Assignments:
Assignment 1 due 21 Sept 2016 Peters
article Staudmauer
article
Assignment 2 due 3 Oct 2016
Assignment 3 due 24 Oct 2016 Julian
article
Assignment 4 due 14 Nov 2016
Assignment 5 due 28 Nov 2016 Testosterone
article
Assignment 6 optional
Atkins vs Zone article
Note that assignments count for 50% of the final grade!
Final presentation is 45% of grade!
Other papers: Stratton
& Neil -how to ensure paper is rejected
Ioannidis – why
published results can be false
Excel demos and model calculators
Datasets in EXCEL (for JMP and other illustrations):
Clond TBI
data (used in ANOVA)
PCO data in JMP format – used for regression
Depression
(CESD) data in JMP format-used for regression Depression
data dictionary
Chung-Prati
cancer survival data in JMP format