Syllabus

Master's Seminar II EPI221

Date/Time Activity Topic/Content Faculty Locations
Tues 9/27/2005
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Section

MAS Seminar

Jake Elkins and Sarah Prager: Work-in-Progress

Required Reading:

  1. Sarah Prager Methods: Choi B. and Pak A. A catalog of biases in questionnaires. Preventing Chronic Disease. Jan 2005.
  2. Jake Elkins: Work in Progress: Education and the Cognitive Decline Associated with Incident Brain Infarct
  3. Jake Elkins Methods: Tobit Models
  4. Sarah Prager: Work in Progress: 6 month phone interview
  5. Sarah Prager: Work in Progress: Final protocol
J Martin
E Vittinghoff
CB 5740
CB 5740
Tues 10/11/2005
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Section

MAS Seminar

Raman Muthusamy and Doug White: Work-in-Progress

Required Reading:

  1. Doug White: Work in Progress: Prognostication during Physician-Family Conferences in the Intensive Care Unit
  2. Doug White: Methods: Giacomini, M. and D. Cook. Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature. JAMA: July 2000.
  3. Raman Muthusamy: Work in Progress: Risk Factors Associated With the Need for Endoscopic Therapy
  4. Raman Muthusamy: Work in Progress: Table. Baseline Demographic Factors of Study Population
J Martin
E Vittinghoff
CB 5740
CB 5740
Tues 10/25/2005
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Section

MAS Seminar

Michael Horberg and Diana Antoniucci: Work-in-Progress

Required Reading:

  1. Michael Horberg Methods: Schneeweiss, S. and Maclure, M. Use of Comorbidity Scores. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2000.
  2. Diana Antoniucci Methods: Cook, D. et al. Subgroup Analysis in Clinical Trials. MJA, March 2004.
  3. Diana Antoniucci Work in Progress: FIT Ancillary Study Proposal
J Martin
E Vittinghoff
CB 5740
CB 5740
Tues 11/8/2005
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Section

MAS Seminar

Andy Michaels and Sei Lee: Work-in-Progress

Required Reading:

  1. Andy Michaels Methods: Omar, R. et al. Analysing Repeated Measurements Data. Statistics in Medicine, volume 18; 1999.
  2. Andy Michaels Methods: Gueorguieva, R. Move Over ANOVA. Archives of General Psychiatry, volume 61; 2004.
  3. Sei Lee Work in Progress: Model Comparisons
  4. Sei Lee Methods: Steyerberg, E. et al. Prognostic Modelling with Logistic Regression Analysis. Statistics in Medicine, 19. 2000.
J Martin
E Vittinghoff
CB 5740
CB 5740
Tues 11/22/2005
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Section

MAS Seminar

Mai Nguyen-Huynh and Neera Gupta: Work-in-Progress

Required Reading:

  1. Mai Nguyen-Huynh Methods: Bland, J. and Douglas Altman. Statistical Methods for Assessing Agreement Between Two Methods of Clinical Measurement. The Lancet, February 1986.
  2. Neera Gupta Methods: Nagurney, J. et al. The Accuracy and Completeness of Data Collected by Prospective and Retrospective Methods. Academic Emergency Medicine, vol. 12: September 2005.
J Martin
E Vittinghoff
CB 5740
CB 5740
Tues 12/6/2005
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Section

MAS Seminar

Byron Lee and Scott Biggins: Work-in-Progress

Required Reading:

  1. Scott Biggins Methods: Hak E, et al. Confounding by Indication in non-experimental evaluation of vaccine effectiveness. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2002: v. 56. 951-955.
  2. Scott Biggins Methods: Signorello L, et al. Confounding by Indication in Epidemiologic Studies of Commonly Used Analgesics. American Journal of Therapeutics, 2002: v. 9. 199-205.
J Martin
E Vittinghoff
CB 5740
CB 5740