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  • Tuesday, January 9, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Overview & Intro. to Linear Regression

    Overview of regression; linear regression intro.

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    Location:     Mission Hall 1400

    • Prospectus:

    • Course Prospectus File

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 1 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading: Chap. 3, Section 3.3 & Section 3.6, VGSM

    • Assignment: Homework #1

    • Homework 1 File
    • Homework 1 (VGSM problems) File

    • Assignment Due Date:  1/30/18 by 10:30 AM

    • Upload Homework 1 here Assignment

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Home work 1 solutions File

    • Datasets:

    • problem2-4.dta File
    • problem2-5.dta File
    • wcgs.dta File

  • Thursday, January 11, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

    Computer Lab: Introduction

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang

    Location:      Mission Hall 1400

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • Lab 1 File

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Lab 1 comments File

    • Datasets:

    • lab1.dta File

    • Stata Files:

  • Tuesday, January 16, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Linear Regression for Multiple Predictors

    Linear regression with categorical and/or continuous predictors

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    Location:      Mission Hall 1400

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 2 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • .MP4 Media Resource
      Not available unless: You belong to V.Avelino-Silva

    • Required Reading:  Sections 4.1-4.2, VGSM 

  • Thursday, January 18, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

    Computer Lab: Linear Regression for Multiple Predictors

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang

    Location:      Mission Hall 1400

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • lab 2 File

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Lab 2 comments File

    • Datasets:

    • lab2.dta File

  • Tuesday, January 23, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Categorical Predictors

    F test, tests for trend, introduction to confounding adjustment in multi predictor models

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    Location:      Mission Hall 1400

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 3 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • MP4 Media Resource
      Not available unless: You belong to V.Avelino-Silva

    • Required Reading:  Section 4.3 & 4.7.5, VGSM

    • Notes on contrasts for linear trend File

  • Thursday, January 25, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

    Computer Lab: Categorical Predictors

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang

    Location:  Mission Hall 1400

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • Lab 3 File

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Lab 3 comments File

    • Datasets:

    • lab3.dta File

    • Stata Files:

    • Final Exam Due Date: Due (date) at (time, i.e. “1pm”,” at the beginning of Small Group Section”)

       

  • Tuesday, January 30, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Confounding and Mediation

    Confounding, mediation and causal inference

    Faculty: Steve Shiboski

    Location: Mission Hall 1400

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 4 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • MP4 Media Resource
      Not available unless: You belong to V.Avelino-Silva

    • Required Reading: Sections 4.4-4.5, VGSM

    • Optional Reading: Review lectures on confounding and stratified analysis from the Epidemiologic Methods course (Epi 203 -slides available on course web site for dates 11/12/13, 11/19/13 & 11/26/13)

    • Assignment: Homework #2

    • Homework 2 File

    • Assignment Due Date:  2/13/18 by 10:30 AM

    • Upload Homework #2 here Assignment

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Homework 2 solutions File

    • Datasets:

    • Homework 2 data File

  • Tuesday, January 30, 2018; 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM

    Homework Sessions

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    Location:      Mission Hall 1406

  • Thursday, February 1, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

    Computer Lab: Confounding and Mediation

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang

    Location:  Mission Hall 1400

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • Lab 4 File

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Lab 4 comments File

    • Datasets:

    • lab4.dta File

    • Stata Files:

    • mediate.do File

  • Tuesday, February 6, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Interaction

    Conceptual introduction, product terms, testing for interactions, lincom statements

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    Location:      Mission Hall 1400

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 5 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • MP4 Media Resource
      Not available unless: You belong to V.Avelino-Silva

    • Required Reading: Sections 4.6, VGSM

  • Thursday, February 8, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

    Computer Lab: Interaction

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang

    Location:  Mission Hall 1400

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • Lab 5 File

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Lab 5 comments File

    • Datasets:

    • lab5.dta File

  • Tuesday, February 13, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Model Diagnostics

    Linearity, normality, constant variance; influential points

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    Location:      Mission Hall 1400

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 6 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • MP4 Media Resource
      Not available unless: You belong to V.Avelino-Silva

    • Assignment: Homework #3

    • Homework 3 File

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Homework 3 solutions File
    • Homework 3 do file

    • Assignment Due Date:  2/27/18 by 10:30 AM

    • Upload Homework #3 here Assignment
    • Homework 3 dataset File

  • Tuesday, February 13, 2018 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM

    Homework Sessions

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    Location:      Mission Hall 1406

  • Thursday, February 15, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

    Computer Lab: Model Diagnostics
    Causal diagrams, three inferential goals; number of predictors, colinearity

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang

    Location:  Mission Hall 1400

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • Lab 6 File

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • lab 6 comments File

    • Datasets:

    • lab6.dta File

  • Tuesday, February 20, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Predictor Selection

    Causal diagrams, three inferential goals; number of predictors, collinearity

    Faculty: Steve Shiboski

    Location:  Mission Hall 1400

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 7 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • MP4 Media Resource
      Not available unless: You belong to V.Avelino-Silva

    • Required Reading: VGSM - Chapter 10

  • Thursday, February 22, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

    Computer Lab: Predictor Selection

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang

    Location:  Mission Hall 1400

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • Lab 7 File

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Lab 7 comments File

    • Datasets:

    • lab7.dta File

    • Stata Files:

    • Change in Coefficient Do File
    • Change in Coefficient Help File

  • Tuesday, February 27, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Binary Outcome Data

    Contingency tables; binary outcomes; measures of association; logistic model

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    Location:     Mission Hall 1400

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 8 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • MP4 Media Resource
      Not available unless: You belong to V.Avelino-Silva

    • Required Reading: VGSM Section 3.4 and Section 5.1

    • Optional Reading:

    • Assignment: Homework #4

    • Homework 4 File

    • Assignment Due Date:  3/13/18 by 10:30 AM

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Homework 4 solutions File
    • Upload Homework #4 here Assignment

    • Datasets:

    • hersbase.dta File
    • icu.dta File

    • Stata Files:

  • Tuesday, February 27, 2018; 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM

    Homework Session

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    Location:      Mission Hall 1406

  • Thursday, March 1, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

    Computer Lab: Binary Outcome Data

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang

    Location:  Mission Hall 1400

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • Lab 8 File

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Lab 8 comments File

    • Datasets:

    • lab8.dta File

    • Stata Files:

  • Tuesday, March 6, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Multiple Logistic Regression

    Multiple logistic regression; confounding; interaction

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    Location:     Mission Hall 1400

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 9 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading: VGSM Section 5.2 (intro. & sections 5.2.1-5.2.4)

  • Thursday, March 8, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

    Computer Lab: Multiple Logistic Regression

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang

    Location:  Mission Hall 1400

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • Lab 9 File

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Lab 9 comments File

    • Datasets:

    • lab9.dta File

  • Tuesday, March 13, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Prediction and Model Diagnostics

    Prediction; model assessment; outliers; goodness of fit

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    Location:      Mission Hall 1400

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 10 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading: VGSM Sections 5.2.5-5.2.6 & 5.4

    • Assignment: Final Exam

    • Final Exam File

    • Assignment Due Date:  3/23/18 by 5:00 PM

    • Upload Final Exam here Assignment

    • Datasets:

    • final-hersdata.dta File
    • bweight.dta File
    • final-wcgs.dta File

  • Tuesday, March 13, 2018; 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM

    Homework Session 

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    Location:  Mission Hall 1406

  • Thursday, March 15, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

    Computer lab: Prediction and Model Diagnostics

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang

    Location:  Mission Hall 1400

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

    • Lab 10 File

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Lab 10 comments File

    • Datasets:

    • lab10.dta File

  • Tuesday, March 20, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Case Control Studies, Alternate Models

    Case-control study; conditional logistic regression; alternate binary regression models

    Faculty: Steve Shiboski

    Location:  Mission Hall 1400

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 11 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Watch URL
      Not available unless: You belong to Registered Students Only

    • Required Reading: VGSM Sections 5.3 & 5.5

  • Thursday, March 22, 2018; 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

    Computer Lab: Case Control Studies

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Jessica Cohan, Sabine Mueller

    Location:  Mission Hall 1400

    • Assignment: Note: the lab assignment will be posted this week, but attendance is optional

    • Lab 11 File

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Lab 11 comments File

    • Datasets:

    • esoph.dta File
    • endom.dta File