Scott S. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington
Categorical Data Analysis in Epidemiology
Summary of univariate categorical data analysis; Introduction to multivariate analysis of categorical epidemiologic and health sciences data using multiplicative models.
Experience at interpretation; familiarity with available software programs gained by analysis of bona fide data and critiques of published analyses appearing in literature.
Prerequisite: BIOST 515; EPI 513 and either BIOST 513 or BIOST 518; or permission of instructor. Offered: jointly with EPI 536.
Instructor: | Scott S. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D. | Assistants David Benkeser benkeser@uw.edu Emily Mosites emosites@uw.edu |
Office: | HSB H655-J | |
Phone: | 616-6678(Biostatistics) | |
Email: | semerson@uw.edu | |
Office Hours: | W 1:30pm - 3:30pm (or by appointment) |
Times and Places
Lectures : TuTh 1:30pm - 3:20pm HST 639
Disc AA : Tu 12:30pm - 1:20pm HST 733
Disc AB : Th 10:30am - 11:20am HST 639
Syllabus and General Information
BIOST 536 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 20121025)
R source code
Help files
Functions for one sample inference (revised 20121110)
R source code
Help files
Functions for regression (revised 20121206)
R source code
Help files
Supplemental Materials
Approach to analyzing a data set (pdf)
Use of Logarithmic Transformations (pdf)
Course Materials
Day | Date | Handouts | Videos | HW Assigned | HW Due | Miscellaneous |
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Thu | Sep 26 | Lecture 1: 4/pg 1/pg | Lecture PartA PartB | HW #1 (Keys: Key ) | Discussion #1 | |
Tue | Oct 1 | Lecture 2: 4/pg 1/pg | Lecture PartA PartB | Peer Grading Instructions | ||
Thu | Oct 3 | Lecture 3: 4/pg 1/pg | Lecture PartA PartB | HW #1 Submissions | Discussion #2 | |
Tue | Oct 8 | Lecture 4: 4/pg 1/pg | Lecture PartA PartB | HW #1 Grading | ||
Thu | Oct 10 | Lecture 5: 4/pg 1/pg | Lecture PartA PartB | HW #2 (Keys: hw2key.do.txt ) | ||
Tue | Oct 15 | Lecture 6: 4/pg 1/pg | Lecture PartA PartB | |||
Thu | Oct 17 | Lecture 7: 4/pg 4/pg | Lecture PartA PartB | HW #2 Submissions | ||
Tue | Oct 22 | Lecture 8: 4/pg 1/pg | Lecture PartA PartB | |||
Thu | Oct 24 | Lecture 9: 4/pg 1/pg | Lecture PartA PartB | HW #2 Submissions | ||
Tue | Oct 29 | Annotated Stata HW #2 | Lecture PartA PartB | |||
Thu | Oct 31 | Lecture 10: 4/pg 1/pg | Lecture PartA PartB | |||
Mon | Nov 4 | Practice Exam Key | Lecture Review Session | Collapsibility (pptx) Power Plots (pdf) | ||
Tue | Nov 5 | Lecture 11: 4/pg 1/pg | Lecture PartA PartB | |||
Thu | Nov 8 | Midterm: Key | ||||
Tue | Nov 12 | Lecture 12: 4/pg 1/pg | Lecture PartA PartB | |||
Thu | Nov 14 | Lecture 13: 4/pg 1/pg | Lecture PartA-B | |||
Tue | Nov 19 | Lecture PartA PartB | ||||
Thu | Nov 20 | Lecture 14: 4/pg 1/pg | Lecture PartA PartB | HW #3 (Keys: Key ) | HW #3 Grading | |
Tue | Nov 26 | Lecture 15: 4/pg 1/pg | Lecture PartA PartB | Project Assignment | Example Report | |
Tue | Dec 3 | Lecture 16: 4/pg 1/pg | Lecture PartA PartB | |||
Wed | Dec 4 | Project Discussion | ||||
Thu | Dec 5 | Lecture 16: 4/pg 1/pg | Lecture PartA PartB | Stata .do file for project | ||
Wed | Dec 11 | Review Session | Commented Projects | |||
Fri | Dec 13 | 2:30p - 4:20p | Final Exam |
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 |
DSST (cognitive function test) | dsst.doc | dsst.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 |
Pregnancy | pregnancy.pdf | pregout.txt preglong.txt |
PSA | PSA.doc | psa.txt |
Salary | salary.doc, initsalary.doc | salary.txt |
SEP | SEP.doc | sep.txt |