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Prerequisites
All students are expected to know basic statistical
methods, including regression and analysis of variance.
You should know how to use SPSS or some other statistical
software package for analyzing data. Most of the topics
will be taught using SPSS.
The section on Analysis of Count Data will use EXCEL. You
should have some experience working with formulas in EXCEL
and copying and pasting both data and formulas.
Announcements
Solutions to Homework 5 are now available.
If you open the file and see only answers to questions 1 and 2, close the file, reload the web page in your internet browser and then open the file again. That should solve the problem.
I have posted last year's "moed aleph" exam to the web site.
You can now download a file with a summary of Poisson
regression and how to fit these models in SPSS. The file
is available from the Detailed Course Syllabus page.
The Mo'ed Bet exam for this course is scheduled
for 21 March 2013.
The American Journal of Epidemiology, Issue 5 of 2005, has some
interesting articles and commentary on the use of statistical
adjustment in bio-medical research. The main source for the
discussion was the difference in conclusions from comparing
the clinical trial and observational study sections of the
Women's Health Initiative. I include here a link to the
discussion by
Diana Petitti and David Freedman. I think you will find
it quite interesting and relevant to many of the things we
talk about during the semester.
Click here
to get a copy of the final exam from 2004. Keep in
mind that in 2004 I spent several weeks reviewing
regression and analysis of variance; I did not
teach the section on the Poisson distribution and
on standardizing rates, or the section on hierarchical models.
Click here to get a copy of the final exam from 2011.
Click here to get a copy of the final exam from 2012.
Additional Information
Course Requirements
Course Goals
Reference Books and Useful Web Sites
Detailed Course Syllabus
Homework
Data Sets and SPSS Code