Scott S. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington
Applied Biostatistics I
Introduction to the analysis of biomedical data.
Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis for discrete, continuous, and right censored
random variables. Analytic methods based on elementary parametric and non-parametric models
for one sample; two sample (independent and paired), stratified sample, and simple regression
problems.
Instructor: | Scott S. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D. | Assistants Greg Levin glevin11@uw.edu Elisa Sheng esheng@uw.edu |
Office: | HSB F673 | |
Phone: | 616-6678(Biostatistics) | |
Email: | semerson@uw.edu | |
Office Hours: | Tu 2:00pm - 5:00pm (or by appointment) |
Times and Places
Lectures : MWF 9:30am - 10:20am HST 439
Disc AA : M 8:30am - 9:20am HST 473
Disc AC : Tu 8:30am - 9:20am HST 478
Disc AB : W 8:30am - 9:20am HST 473
Disc AA : F 8:30am - 9:20am HST 473
Syllabus and General Information
BIOST 517 Syllabus (pdf)
Information and Tutorials on Stata
Ordering Stata IC through Grad Plan
Prof. Jim Hughes’ Stata tutorials (requires UWnet ID)
R Materials
Functions for descriptive statistics (revised 20110930)
R source code
Help files
Supplemental Materials
Approach to analyzing a data set (pdf)
Use of Logarithmic Transformations (pdf)
Course Materials
Date | Handouts | Videos | HW Assigned | HW Due | Miscellaneous |
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Wed, 28 Sep | Lecture 1 | Lecture Discussion | HW #1 (Keys: Key Stata Excel ) | ||
Fri, 30 Sep | Lecture 2 | Lecture | |||
Mon, 3 Oct | Lecture 3 | Lecture | |||
Wed, 5 Oct | Lecture Discussion | HW #2 Data (Keys: Key Stata ) | HW #1 | ||
Fri, 7 Oct | Lecture 4 | Lecture | |||
Mon, 10 Oct | Lecture | ||||
Wed, 12 Oct | Lecture 5 | Lecture | HW #3 (Keys: Key Stata Excel ) | HW #2 | |
Fri, 14 Oct | Lecture 6 | Quiz Handout | Video | Quiz | |
Mon, 17 Oct | Lecture | ||||
Wed, 19 Oct | Lecture 7 | Lecture | HW #4 (Keys: Key Stata ) | HW #3 | |
Fri, 21 Oct | Lecture | ||||
Mon, 24 Oct | Lecture | ||||
Wed, 26 Oct | Lecture 8 | Lecture | |||
Fri, 28 Oct | Lecture 9 | Lecture | HW #5 (Keys: Key Stata ) | HW #4 | |
Mon, 31 Oct | Lecture | ||||
Wed, 2 Nov | Lecture 10 | Lecture (Audio mp3) | HW #5 | Review (Handout) | |
Fri, 4 Nov | Midterm Key | Midterm | Midterm | ||
Mon, 7 Nov | Lecture 11 | Lecture (Audio mp3) | |||
Wed, 9 Nov | Lecture (Audio mp3) | HW #6 (Keys: ) | |||
Fri, 11 Nov | (Holiday) | ||||
Mon, 14 Nov | Quiz (Audio mp3) Handout | Quiz on Midterm Key | |||
Wed, 16 Nov | Lecture (Audio mp3) | ||||
Fri, 18 Nov | Lecture 12 | Lecture (Audio mp3) | HW #6 | Project | |
Mon, 21 Nov | Lecture 13 | Lecture (Audio mp3) | |||
Wed, 23 Nov | Lecture 14 | Lecture (Audio mp3) | HW #7 (Keys: ) | ||
Fri, 25 Nov | (Holiday) | ||||
Mon, 28 Nov | Lecture 15 | Lecture (Audio mp3) | |||
Wed, 30 Nov | Lecture 16 | Lecture (Audio mp3) | Project Discussion (Beta carotene) (Audiology) | ||
Fri, 2 Dec | Lecture (Audio mp3) | HW #8 (Keys: Key ) | HW #7 | ||
Mon, 5 Dec | Lecture 17 | Lecture (Audio mp3) | Review (Audio mp3) (Handout) | ||
Wed, 7 Dec | |||||
Fri, 9 Dec | HW #8 | ||||
Wed, 14 Dec | Final Exam | Final Project |
Datasets
Dataset | Documentation | Data |
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Adult FEV | adultfev.doc | adultfev.txt |
Audiology | audio.doc | audio.csv |
Beta carotene (summarized) | carot.doc | carot.txt |
Detailed Beta carotene | bcarot.doc | bcarot.txt |
Chemosensitizers in Chemotherapy | chemo.doc | chemo.txt |
DFMO | dfmo.doc | dfmowide.txt, dfmolong.txt |
FEV and Smoking in Children | fev.doc | fev.txt |
Biomarkers of Inflammation | inflamm.doc | inflamm.txt |
Clinical Trial Idarubicin in AML | leukemia.doc | leukemia.txt |
Mayo Clinic PBC | liver.doc | liver.txt |
MRI and Cerebral Atrophy | mri.pdf | mri.txt |
PBC Trial Laboratory | mtxlabs.doc | mtxlabs.txt |
PBC Trial Outcomes | mtxotcm.doc | mtxotcm.txt |
Clinical Trial in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer | nsclc.doc | nsclc.txt |
Screening Data For PBC | pbcscreen.doc | pbcscreen.txt |
PSA | PSA.doc | psa.txt |
Salary | salary.doc | salary.txt |
SEP | SEP.doc | sep.txt |