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  • Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Course Introduction; Review of Purposes of Regression
    Review of regression; major model questions, properties of a good regression model.

    Faculty:  David Glidden

    Lecture (Access restricted to registered students):     Zoom URL.

    • Prospectus:

    • Lecture Slides:

    • lect1 handour File

    • Live Interactive Discussion (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Lecture 1 Media Resource
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    • Assignment: Homework #1. Files below

    • Homework #1 Assignment

    • Assignment Due Date: Due September 28, 2021. 

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

    • hw1 solution File
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  • Tuesday, September 21, 2021; 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Functional Form
    Splines, smoothing, categorizing continuous predictors

    Faculty:  David Glidden

    Lecture (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL.

    • Lecture Slides:

    • lecture2 handout File

    • Lecture (Registered Students Only)

    • Lecture 2 Media Resource
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    • Required Reading:

    • Greenland1995 File
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    • altman File
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    • Assignments:

    • Homework #2 Assignment

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

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    • hw2 soln File
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    • Stata Files:

    • lecture2 File
    • lecture2 plots File

  • Tuesday, September 28, 2021; 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

    Computer Laboratory: Homework 1 Review and Discussion Session

    Review of Homework 1

    Faculty:  David Glidden

    Live Interactive Discussion (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL.

    • Homework 1 Media Resource
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    • Datasets:

  • Tuesday, September 28, 2021; 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Repeated Measures Data
    Mixed models, generalized estimating equations

    Faculty:  David Glidden

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

    • Lecture Slides:

    • lect3 handout File

    • Lecture (Access restricted to registered students):  Zoom URL

    • Lecture 3 Media Resource
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    • Lecture Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

      Vittinghoff, Chapter 7

    • Stata Files:

    • lecture3 File
    • lecture 3 File
    • Homework #3 Assignment

    • Assignment Due Date: October 12, 2021  by  2pm

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

    • hw3. soln File
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  • Tuesday, October 5, 2021; 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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

    Faculty:  David Glidden


    • Lecture Slides:

    • lecture4 handout File

    • Live Interactive Discussion (Access restricted to registered students):  Zoom URL

    • Lecture 4 Media Resource
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    • Lecture Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

      Vittinghoff, CH 11.1-11.4, 11.6

    • Homework 4 Assignment

  • Tuesday, October 12, 2021; 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

    Homework Review/Discussion

    Faculty:  David Glidden

    Live Interactive Discussion (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL

  • Tuesday, October 12, 2021; 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Multiple Imputation
    Choice of imputation model, mi package

    Faculty: David Glidden

    Lecture (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL.


    • Lecture Slides:

    • lect5 handout File
    • lecture5-1 File
    • lecture5-2 File
    • lecture 5 File

    • Lecture (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL

    • Lecture 5 Media Resource
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    • Lecture Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

      Vittinghoff, Chapter 11.5, 11.7-11.8

    • Homework 5 Assignment

  • Tuesday, October 19, 2021 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Missing Data
    Multiple imputation, maximum likelihood, inverse weighting

    Faculty:  David Glidden

    Live Interactive Discussion (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL.

    • Lecture Slides:

    • lecture6 File

    • Lecture (Access restricted to registered students):  Zoom URL

    • Lecture 6 Media Resource
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    • Lecture Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading: 

      Vittinghoff, Chapter 11.9

    • Homework 6 Assignment

    • Assignment Answer Key (Assignment 4)

    • hw4 soln File
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  • Tuesday, October 26 2021; 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Causal Inference
    Strengthening causal inference using regression

    Faculty:  David Glidden

    • Lecture Slides:

    • lecture7 handout File

    • Lecture (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL

    • Lecture 7 Media Resource
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    • Lecture Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

      Vittinghoff, Chapter 9.1-9.2

    • Assignment Answer Key 

    • hw5 soln File
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  • Tuesday, October 26, 2021, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

    Computer Lab

    Live online session in which students have access to course faculty for questions on current or prior curriculum, assignments and software implementation.

    Faculty: David Glidden

    Live Interactive Discussion (Access restricted to registered students):

    Zoom or +1 669 900 6833 (Meeting ID: 941 6963 0911) (Password: 066230)

  • Tuesday, November 2, 2021; 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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

    Faculty: David Glidden

    • Lecture Slides:

    • lect8 handout File

    • Lecture (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL

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

    • Lecture 8 Media Resource
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    • Required Reading:

      Vittinghoff, Chapter 9.4

    • Stata Files:

    • Homework 7 Assignment

    • Assignment Answer Key 

    • hw6 discussion File
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  • Tuesday, November 9, 2021; 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Predictive Models
    Building Models for Prediction

    Faculty: David Glidden

    Lecture (Access restricted to registered students): 

    • Lecture Slides:

    • lecture handout9 File
    • Reading Resource: Steyerberg URL

    • Required Reading:

      Vittinghoff, Chapter 10.1

    • Live Interactive Discussion (Access restricted to registered students):  Zoom URL

    • Watch Media Resource
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    • Lecture Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Due December 7,  2021 by 2pm

    • Homework 8 Assignment

  • Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 3:15 PM-4:15 PM

    Computer Lab

    Live online session in which students have access to course faculty for questions on current or prior curriculum, assignments and software implementation.

    Faculty: David Glidden

    Live Interactive Discussion (Access restricted to registered students):

    Zoom or +1 669 900 6833 (Meeting ID: 941 6963 0911) (Password: 066230)

  • Tuesday, November 16, 2021; 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

    Lecture: Model Validation
    Assessing for Prediction

    Faculty:  David Glidden

    • Lecture (Access restricted to registered students): Zoom URL

    • Watch Media Resource
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    • Lecture Slides:

    • lect10-handout File

    • Stata files

    • lecture 10 File
    • lecture10 File

    • Homework 7 solutions

    • hw7 solutions File
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  • Tuesday, November 23, 2021 - No Lecture - Thanksgiving Holiday

  • Tuesday November 29 2021

    Lecture has concluded. All that remains is HW8. Please contact me or the TA if you have any issues.

  • Tuesday, December 7, 2021

    Lecture has concluded. All that remains is HW8. Please contact me or the TA if you have any issues.

    • hw8 soln File
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