Pharmacy 3011 - Fall 2019 - Biostatistics component
If you torture the data long enough, it will
confess. - Ronald Coase
The page contains links to notes for the lectures
and to assignments. Lecture pages will be added and modified as we
proceed through the term.
Course
Syllabus
Lecture Notes
Example data (forced
expiratory volume of patients in three hospitals); ANOVA
analysis in R and in Excel.
Example
data (medullar blood vessel surface in
guinea pig thymus under histamine shock); ANOVA analysis in R and
in Excel.
How
to determine the degrees of freedom in One-way and Two-way
ANOVA?
Prof.
Mike Dowd's hand written note on multiple regression. A
nice powerpoint file on ANOVA and
regression.
A Forest
plot of the lidocaine meta analysis based on the example
data of the lecture note.
A good paper on meta analysis (Normand
S-L., Meta-analysis:
formulating, evaluating, combining, and reporting. Statistics
in Medicine 18, 321-359, 1999).
A good paper on Equivalence
and Noninferiority (Walker E. and Nowacki A.S., Understanding
equivalence and noninferiority testing. Journal of
General Internal Medicine 26(2):192-196, 2010).
Survival
curve examples, from Pagano M. and Gauvreau K: Principles
of Biostatistics, Duxbury, 2000
Reading
on European guideline
on missing data in confirmatory clinical trials - FYI, not
covered on final exam
d'Agostino paper on
propensity scores. FYI, not covered on exam
Assignments
Stats
Tables