Schedule

Schedule for Math 150, Methods in Biostatistics, Spring 2023

Here’s your roadmap for the semester! Each week, follow the general process outlined below:

• Enjoy the notes / text

• Attend class, review the warm-up and solutions if you have any questions after completing it during class.

• Complete the HW assignment ( pdf & Rmd linked below), submit the assignment via Gradescope accessed on the course Canvas site. HW is due weekly on Wednesday at 11:59pm.

• Discuss the reflection questions and ethics considerations (see the class notes) with your classmates, mentor, and professor.

• The textbook is Practicing Statistics, by Kuiper and Sklar.

date	agenda	readings	homework	article (Tues)	warm-ups
Week 1 1.17.23	• t-tests + • SLR	Kuiper & Sklar: 2 introduction t-test t-test as SLR		none Emma Benn	WU 1 WU 2
Week 2 1.24.23	• SLR • contingency analysis	Kuiper & Sklar: 2 & 6 SLR Fisher's Exact Test categorical analysis	HW1 pdf HW1 Rmd HW1 turn-in	A/B testing at Netflix Rafael Irizarry	WU 3 WU 4
Week 3 1.31.23	• contingency analysis	Kuiper & Sklar: 6 types of studies RR and CI OR and CI	HW2 pdf HW2 Rmd HW2 turn-in	what is efficacy? efficacy Desi Small-Rodriguez	WU 5 WU 6
Week 4 2.7.23	• logistic regression	Kuiper & Sklar: 7 logistic regression MLE	HW3 pdf HW3 Rmd HW3 turn-in	Obesity in Children Plummets JAMA article here (see Table 6) growth curves David Blackwell	WU 7 WU 8
Week 5 2.14.23	• logistic regression	Kuiper & Sklar: 7 inference, logistic regression multiple logistic regression	HW4 pdf HW4 Rmd HW4 turn-in	intersectional data Kim Sellers	WU 9 Simpson's Paradox
Week 6 2.21.23	• logistic regression	Kuiper & Sklar: 7 model process cross validation ROC	HW5 pdf HW5 Rmd HW5 turn-in	missing data Robert Santos	WU 10 WU 11 tidymodels
Week 7 2.28.23	• modeling	model building	HW6 pdf HW6 Rmd HW6 turn-in	many models Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver	WU 12 WU 13 ROC + one variable building variable handout
Week 8 3.7.23	review & catch-up	exam 1 in class + 3.9.23	HW7 pdf HW7 Rmd not due ever	see Canvas for sample exam 1 Q & sol
3.14.23	Spring Break
Week 9 3.21.23	• survival analysis	Kuiper & Sklar: 9 time to event KM curves KM CI		placebo effect (read abstract and Fig 3) Alejandra Castillo	WU 14 WU 15
Week 10 3.28.23	• survival analysis	Kuiper & Sklar: 9 log rank tests hazard functions	HW8 pdf HW8 Rmd HW8 turn-in	Alzheimer's Lester Mackey	WU 16 WU 17
Week 11 4.4.23	• survival analysis	Kuiper & Sklar: 9 Cox PH model multiple Cox PH	HW9 pdf HW9 Rmd HW9 turn-in	race-conscious medicine Mike Dairyko	WU 18 WU 19 CHD & HR
Week 12 4.11.23	• survival analysis	Kuiper & Sklar: 9 assessing PH most published research	HW10 pdf HW10 Rmd HW10 turn-in	most published research science problems abuse of power Chris Volinsky	WU 20 WU 21
Week 13 4.18.23	• multiple comparisons	multiple comparisons false discovery rate interim analyses	PROJECT: EDA	pausing trials Liz Hare	WU 22 WU 23
Week 14 4.25.23	review & catch-up	exam 2 in class + 4.27.23	HW11 pdf HW11 Rmd HW11 turn-in	see Canvas for sample exam 2 Q & sol
Week 15 5.2.23	Graphics presentations		PROJECT: Graphic
Tuesday 5.9.23 2-5pm	Final Project		PROJECT: final

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