STAT 422/622 Advanced Biostatistics
Fall 2023 -- Monday & Thursday 5:30 - 6:45 pm in
Mary Graydon Center
, room 313
Instructor:
Michael Baron
Office:
Meyers Building
,
DMTI-106D
(East Campus)
Phone:
(202) 885-3130
Email:
baron
at
american.edu
Fall office hours:
Monday and Thursday 4:00-5:00 pm in
DMTI-106D
and on
Zoom
, or by appointment
Course Syllabus
- course contents, rules, links, and other info
Canvas
- homework, solutions, grades, discussions.
R
corner
Download R from
this site
and install it in your system.
The same site
also contains various R manuals and other help.
R labs
Lab 1. First steps in R
Lab 2. Power analysis with asbio
Lab 3. Survival Analysis
Lab 4. Randomized designs
Lab 5a. Sequential clinical trials - Binomial example
Lab 5. Two-stage designs
Lab 6. Group sequential clinical trials
Lab 7. Epidemiology: risks and continugency tables
Epidemiology: risks and contingency tables
Handouts
Review of basic probability
Rules of Probability
(slides)
Random variables, expected value, variance
(slides)
Normal distribution, calculation of Normal probabilities, and the distribution of a sample mean
(slides)
Review of basic statistics
Detailed review of descriptive statistics
Detailed review of estimation and hypothesis testing
Very short review of estimation and hypothesis testing
Slides on confidence intervals
Slides on hypothesis testing
Slides on two-sample hypotheses and confidence intervals
Review of p-values
Slides on ANOVA
Detailed review of regression
Slides on regression
Tables
Table of random numbers
Table of Normal distribution
Table of T-distribution
Table of Chi-Square distribution
Table of F distribution
Short tables of Normal, T, and F distributions (for quizzes)
Table of Binomial distribution
Table of Beta distribution
Table of Gamma distribution
Misc
Conversation with Allen Wallis about the beginning of sequential analysis
Questions/comments/suggestions? Write to
baron@american.edu