Stat 6395 Special
Topics in Statistics: Epidemiology
Spring 2008
Heroy Science Hall, Room
127, Wednesday 2:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.
Instructors: Dr. Giovanni Filardo and Dr. H. K. Tony Ng
Office: 106 Heroy Science Hall (Dr. Ng)
Phone: (214) 265-3633 (Dr. Filardo) and (214) 768-2465 (Dr. Ng)
e-mail: gfilardo@mail.smu.edu
(Dr. Filardo) and ngh@mail.smu.edu
(Dr. Ng)
webpage:
http://faculty.smu.edu/ngh/stat6395.html
Office Hours: Monday 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
(or by appointment)
Course
Outline
Assigned Articles
Presentation
Schedule
Class Notes:
Week 1 & Week 2
Week 3 (Chapter
12, Chapter 13)
Week 4
Week 5 & 6
(Examples on Excel Worksheet: Evidence
function, CIs for Binomial Proportions)
Week 7
Week 8, Stratified Analysis
Week 9
Week 10
Week 11 (SAS
Example, Dataset)
Week 12 (SAS
Example,
R Example on Spline Regression)
Homework Assignments:
Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Final Project (Dataset
in plain text format, in SAS format)
Class presentation: 30th April, 2008
(Wednesday, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
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