ADVANCED BIOSTATISTICAL METHODS

Homework:

Homework 1 -- due on 7 November.

Solutions for Homework 1.

You can see here an excellent job of solving Homework 1. The answers are all correct. Two minor comments. The graph for the menarche data should plot ln[p/(1-p)] on the y-axis rather than p itself. If you plot ln[p/(1-p)] vs. age you see that the relationship is linear. The Hosmer-Lemeshow test is useful when you have a numerical explanatory variable (like age or length of exposure) and you want to test whether the relationship to that variable is really linear. So it is a useful test for the neurology experiment and for the menarche data. But it is not useful for the final example, where the explanatory variables have only two categories.

Homework 2 -- due on 28 November.

Solutions for Homework 2.

Solution for Homework 2, Question 3.

Homework 3 -- due on 12 December.

The data file for Homework 3

The data file for Homework 3 with solutions

Written solutions for Homework 3.

Homework 4 -- due on 2 January.

The nasal cancer data file for Homework 4

The cranial growth data file for Homework 4, in a format suitable for repeated measures ANOVA

The cranial growth data file for Homework 4, in a format suitable for mixed model analysis

Solutions for Homework 4.

Homework 5 -- due on 23 January.

The data file for Hodgkins lymphoma. This is a plain text file.

The data file for Hodgkins lymphoma. This is an EXCEL file.

The data file for breast feeding. This is a plain text file and includes both the data and a description of the variables.

The data file for breast feeding. This is an EXCEL file.

The data file for bladder cancer. This is an EXCEL file.

Solutions for Homework 5.

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