Section outline

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  • Tuesday, September 17, 2019, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Introduction
    Review of regression; major model questions, properties of a good regression model.

    Faculty:  David Glidden
    Location:      Mission Hall 1407

    • Prospectus:

    • desc 210 2018 File

    • Session Slides:

    • lecture1 handout File

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

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

    • Assignment:

    • hw1 File
    • scut File
    • hw1 markdoc File
    • hw1-sim File

    • Assignment Due Date:  Due October 1, 2019. Drop off at TA mailbox at Mission Hall 2nd Floor, photocopy room near conference room 2600

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

    • hw1 solution File
      Not available unless: You belong to Registered Students Only

  • Tuesday, September 24, 2019; 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Functional Form
    Splines, smoothing, categorizing continuous predictors

    Faculty:  David Glidden

    Location:  Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • lecture2 handout File

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

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

    • Required Reading:

    • Greenland1995 File
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    • altman File
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    • Stata Files:

    • lecture2 File
    • lecture2 plots File

  • Tuesday, October 1, 2019; 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Repeated Measures Data
    Mixed models, generalized estimating eqns

    Faculty:  David Glidden

    Location:  Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • lecture 3 handout File

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

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

    • Required Reading:

      Vittinghoff, Chapter 7

    • Assignment:

    • hw2 File

    • Assignment Due Date:  October 15, 2019  by 10:30am. Drop off at TA mailbox at Mission Hall 2nd Floor by photocopy room near conference room 2600

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

    • hw2 soln File
      Not available unless: You belong to Registered Students Only

    • Stata Files:

    • hw2 File

  • Tuesday, October 1, 2019; 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

    Computer Lab

    Faculty:  David Glidden

    Location:      Mission Hall 1407

    • Assignment:  Lab#1

    • lab1 File
    • lab1 solution File
      Not available unless: You belong to Registered Students Only

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

    • Datasets:

    • lab1 File
    • lab1 File

  • Tuesday, October 8, 2019; 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Missing Values
    Types of missing data, MCAR/MAR/NAR, maximum likelihood

    Faculty:  David Glidden

    Location:  Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • lecture 4 handout File

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

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

    • Required Reading:

      Vittinghoff, CH 11.1-11.4, 11.6

  • Tuesday, October 15, 2019; 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Multiple Imputation
    Choice of imputation model, mi package

    Faculty: David Glidden

    Location: Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • lecture 5-handout File
    • lecture 5 File
    • lecture5-1 File
    • lecture5-2 File

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

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

    • Required Reading:

      Vittinghoff, Chapter 11.5, 11.7-11.8

    • Assignment: Homework #3

    •  Due October 29, 2019. Drop off at TA mailbox at Mission Hall 2nd Floor,  by photocopy room near conference room 2600

    • hw3 File
    • hwk3 wide File
    • hwk3 long File

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

    • hw3 soln File
      Not available unless: You belong to Registered Students Only

  • Tuesday, October 15, 2019; 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

    Computer Lab

    Faculty:  David Glidden
    Location:     Unfortunately, there will be no in person lab on 10/15. Please complete on your own

    • Assignment:

    • lab2 File
    • lab2 File

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

    • lab 2 discussion File

  • Tuesday, October 22, 2019 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Missing Data
    Multiple imputation, maximum likelihood, inverse weighting

    Faculty:  David Glidden

    Location    :  Mission Hall 1407


    • Session Slides:

    • lecture6-handout File

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

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

    • Required Reading: 

      Vittinghoff, Chapter 11.9

  • Tuesday, October 29, 2019; 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Causal Inference
    Strengthening causal inference using regression

    Faculty:  David Glidden

    Location    :  Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • lecture 7-handout File

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

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

    • Required Reading:

      Vittinghoff, Chapter 9.1-9.2

    • Assignment: Homework #4

    • hw4 File
    • hwk4 wide File
    • hwk4 long File

    • Due November 12,  2019 by 10:30am. Drop off at TA mailbox at Mission Hall 2nd Floor by photocopy room near conference room 2600

    • hw4 soln File
      Not available unless: You belong to Registered Students Only

  • Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

    Computer Lab

    Faculty: David Glidden

    Location: Mission Hall 1407


    • Assignment:  Lab 3 on G-computation

    • lab3 File
    • lab3 File

    • Assignment Answer Key 

    • lab3 discussion File

  • Tuesday, November 5, 2019; 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Propensity Scores
    Propensity scores for causal inference and contrast with regression models.

    Faculty: David Glidden

    Location: Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 8 handout File

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

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

    • Required Reading:

      Vittinghoff, Chapter 9.4

    • Stata Files:

    • lecture 8 class File
    • lecture class File

  • Tuesday, November 12, 2019 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Predictive Models
    Building Models for Prediction

    Faculty: David Glidden

    Location: Mission Hall 1407

    • Session Slides:

    • Lecture 9-2019.key File
    • Lecture 9-2019 File

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

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

    • Required Reading:

      Vittinghoff, Chapter 10.1

    • Assignment: Homework #5

    • hw5 File

    • Due December 3,  2019 by 10:30am. Drop off at TA mailbox at Mission Hall 2nd Floor by  photocopy room near conference room 2600

    • Assignment Answer Key

    • Datasets:

    • hwk5 File
    • hw5 soln File

  • Tuesday, November 19, 2019; 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM -- No Lecture


  • Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - No Lecture - Thanksgiving Holiday

  • Tuesday, December 3, 2019; 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Model Validation
    Assessing for Prediction

    Faculty:  David Glidden

    Location:  Mission Hall 1407