Section outline

  • Lecture: Overview & Intro. to Linear Regression

    Overview of regression; linear regression intro.

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    Location (Access restricted to registered students):  Zoom URL

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    • Session Slides:

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

    • Lecture 1 - 01/05/2021 File
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    • Required Reading: Chap. 2, Section 3.3 & Section 3.6, VGSM

    • Assignment: Homework #1

    • Assignment Due Date:  1/26/21 by 10:30 AM

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  • Computer Lab: Introduction

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang, Caitlin Turner, Janet Chu

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    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

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  • Lecture: Linear Regression for Multiple Predictors

    Linear regression with categorical and/or continuous predictors

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

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    • Lecture 2 - part 1 File
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    • Lecture 2 - part 3 File
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    • Lecture 2 - part 4 File
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    • Lecture 2 Review & Discussion File
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    • Required Reading:  Sections 4.1-4.2, VGSM 

  • Computer Lab: Linear Regression for Multiple Predictors

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang, Caitlin Turner, Janet Chu

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    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

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  • Lecture: Categorical Predictors

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

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

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    • Lecture 3 - part 1 File
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    • Lecture 3 - part 2 File
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    • Lecture 3 - part 3 File
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    • Lecture 3 - part 4 File
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    • Lecture 3 Review & Discussion Media Resource
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    • Required Reading:  Section 4.3-4.4, VGSM

  • Computer Lab: Categorical Predictors

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang, Caitlin Turner, Janet Chu

    Location (Access restricted to registered students):  Zoom URL


    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

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  • Lecture: Confounding and Mediation

    Confounding, mediation and causal inference

    Faculty: Steve Shiboski

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    • Lecture 4 - part 1 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 4 - part 3 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 4 Review Media Resource
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    • 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)

    • Assignment: Homework #2

    • Assignment Due Date:  2/9/21 by 10:30 AM

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  • Homework Sessions

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    Location (Access restricted to registered students):  Zoom URL

  • Computer Lab: Confounding and Mediation

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang, Caitlin Turner, Janet Chu

    Location (Access restricted to registered students):  Zoom URL


    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

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  • Lecture: Interaction

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

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

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    • Lecture 5 - part 1 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 5 part 2 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 5 - part 3 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 5 - Review Media Resource
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    • Required Reading: Sections 4.6, VGSM

  • Computer Lab: Interaction

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang, Caitlin Turner, Janet Chu

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    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

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  • Lecture: Model Diagnostics
    Linearity, normality, constant variance; influential points

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

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    • Lecture 6 - part 1 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 6 - part 3 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 6 - part 4 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 6 - Review Media Resource
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    • Required Reading: Sections 4.7, VGSM

    • Assignment: Homework #3

    • Assignment Due Date:  2/23/21 by 10:30 AM

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    • Homework 3 do file
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    Tuesday, February 9, 2021 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM

    Homework Sessions

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    Location (Access restricted to registered students):  Zoom URL: https://ucsf.zoom.us/j/94146946472?pwd=TUh3TTNoZHFOSVNHdnQwa3hNVkMxQT09

    Meeting ID: 941 4694 6472

    Password: 667719


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

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang, Caitlin Turner, Janet Chu

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    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

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  • Lecture: Predictor Selection

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

    Faculty: Steve Shiboski

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    • Lecture 7 - part 1 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 7 - part 3 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 7 - review Media Resource
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    • Required Reading: Chapter 10, VGSM

  • Computer Lab: Predictor Selection

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang, Caitlin Turner, Janet Chu

    Location (Access restricted to registered students):  Zoom URL

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

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  • Lecture: Binary Outcome Data

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

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

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    • Lecture 8 - part 1 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 8 - part 2 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 8 - part 3 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 8 - part 4 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 8 - review Media Resource
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    • Required Reading: VGSM Section 3.4 and Section 5.1

    • Assignment: Homework #4

    • Assignment Due Date:  3/9/21 by 10:30 AM

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  • Homework Session

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    Location (Access restricted to registered students):  Zoom URL
    Meeting ID: 971 8998 2559

    Password: 794724

  • Computer Lab: Binary Outcome Data

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang, Caitlin Turner, Janet Chu

    Location (Access restricted to registered students):  Zoom URL

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

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  • Lecture: Multiple Logistic Regression

    Multiple logistic regression; confounding; interaction

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

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    • Lecture 9 - part 1 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 9 - part 2 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 9 - part 3 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 9 - part 4 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 9 - part 5 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 9 - review Media Resource
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    • Required Reading: VGSM Section 5.2 (intro. & sections 5.2.1-5.2.4)

  • Computer Lab: Multiple Logistic Regression

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang, Caitlin Turner, Janet Chu

    Location (Access restricted to registered students):  Zoom URL

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

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  • Lecture: Logistic Model Diagnostics, Prediction & Alternate Binary Regression Models

    Prediction; model assessment; outliers; goodness of fit; alternate binary regression models

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    • Session Slides:

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

    • Lecture 10 - part 1 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 10 - part 2 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 10 - part 3 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 10 - review Media Resource
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    • Lecture 10 2020 - part 1 File
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    • Lecture 10 2020 - part 2 File
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    • Required Reading: VGSM Sections 5.2.5-5.2.6 & 5.4

    • Assignment: Final Exam

    • Assignment Due Date:  3/19/21 by 5:00 PM

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    Tuesday, March 9, 2021; 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM

    Homework Session 

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski

    Location (Access restricted to registered students):  Zoom URL

    Meeting ID: 955 6410 5712

    Password: 191178


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  • Computer lab: Prediction and Model Diagnostics

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Li Zhang, Caitlin Turner, Janet Chu

    Location:  zoom only 

    • Assignment: Optional narrative description

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  • Lecture: Pooled Logistic Regression, Case Control Studies

    Case-control study; conditional logistic regression; pooled logistic regression

    Faculty: Steve Shiboski

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    • Lecture 11 - part 1 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 11 - part 2 Media Resource
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    • Lecture 11 - review Media Resource
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    • Required Reading: VGSM Sections 5.3 & 5.5

  • Computer Lab: Case Control Studies

    Faculty:  Steve Shiboski, Caitlin Turner, Janet Chu

    Location (Access restricted to registered students):  Zoom URL


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

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