MDSC 643.02 Biostatistics II

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MDSC 643.02Biostatistics II

• Gordon Hilton Fick
• ghfick_at_ucalgary.ca
• www.ucalgary.ca/ghfick
• 220-6939

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Teaching Assistants

• Jian Kang
• Office hours and some large group sessions
• Shelly Vik
• Marking and grading

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Stata

• First
• Phone Stata Corporation 800-248-8272
• Intercooled Stata 8 is recommended
• Perpetual license is the best deal US134
• You want Method 3 Grad Plan
• Then
• Vicki Stagg will contact you
• vlstagg_at_ucalgary.ca
• 220-7265

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Appointments to see GHF

• Crystal Elliott
• elliottc_at_ucalgary.ca
• 220-4288
• Monday afternoons are best
• Other days and/or times are possible too

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Assignments

• Interpretation most important
• All Stata analyses must be explained
• Define all terms in context
• Use Equations editor to make symbols

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Prerequisite Course

• MDSC 643.01 Biostatistics I
• B or better
• Within the past 3 years
• See GHF if you have other preparation

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Prerequisite material

• Interpret accurately and completely
• boxplots, scatterplots, line plots, axes, units,
  titles
• mean versus median when?
• data transformations
• tests and confidence intervals
• tables FET versus tests
• means t-tests, analysis of variance
• matched analysis

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Computing Background

• Windows/Mac/Linux architecture
• Website links, left versus right clicks
• Stata Rabe-Hesketh Everitt
• Chapters 1 2

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Projects

• Grouped In pairs
• Power Point presentations
• To display biostatistical content
• 10 minutes for each group

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Course Objectives

• Health Studies From idea, to design, to data
  collection, data analysis and interpretation
• Linking classical analyses to model-based
  analyses
• Using software spreadsheet/database to
  statistical analysis
• Linear regression and Logistic regression
  choosing, assessing, interpreting
• Introducing other regression models conditional
  logistic, proportional hazards and others
• Using models to assess potential confounders
  and/or modifiers