Upcoming seminars
Friday, September 20, 2013, 10:00-11:30 am
McKusick Conference Room
50 Beale Street, 13th floor
San Francisco
About the seminar:
Materials from past seminars
Qualitative
- March 2010 — Diving In: Rapid Appraisal and Its Application: Emily Arnold, PhD
Quantitative
- April 2013 – Steve Gregorich, PhD: Models of binary outcomes with 3-level data: A comparison of some options within SAS
- February 2013 – Journal Club: “Multiple Imputations using Chained Equations (MICE)”. Moderated by Tor Neilands, PhD & Estie Hudes, PhD, MPH
- January 2013 – Handling Missing Data, Part II:Tor Neilands, PhD & Estie Hudes, PhD, MPH
- December 2012 – Handling Missing Data, Part I:Tor Neilands, PhD & Estie Hudes, PhD, MPH
- November 2012 — Causal Inference in HIV Research: Sherry Rose, PhD, and Elise Riley, PhD
- September-October 2012 — 4-session worshop on Repeated Measures Analysis using Stata: Charles McCulloch, PhD (joint presentations with TAPS)
- May 2012 — Use Exploratory Factor Analysis Oblique Principal Component Cluster Analysis to Uncover the Underlying Structure of Self-Report Instruments: Steve Gregorich, PhD
- April 2012 — Strengthening Causal Inference in HIV Prevention Studies: Introduction and Practical Examples: Drs. Carol Camlin, Mi-Suk Kang Dufour, Sheri Lippman, and Starley Shade
- March 2012 — Using Time-Location Sampling to Identify and Recruit High-Risk MSM: Lance Pollack, PhD
- Seminar announcement
- Materials to be added after publication
- February 2012 — Mediation for the 21st Century: Ross Boylan, PhD
- January 2012 — SAS 9.3 Enhancements for Statistical Analysis: Tor Neielands, PhD
- December 2011 — Report back from the Stata Conference, Chicago 2011: Estie Hudes, PhD, MPH
- November 2011 — Design and Sample-Size Issues for Cluster-Randomized Trials: Can We Do Better Than Hand-Waving?: Edwin Charlebois, PhD, MPH
- October 2011 — Introduction to Social Network Analysis: Theory and Methods: George A. Barnet, PhD
- September 2011 — Comparing odds ratios across nested logistic regression models: Steve Gregorich, PhD
- May 2011 — Journal Club: Standard of Statistical Evidence–Are We Drawing the Right Conclusions from the Statistics We Employ? Moderated by Drs. Wayne Steward and Estie Hudes
- Reading materials: bem2011, bem2011comments)
- April 2011 — An Approach to Minimizing Problematic Data in an ACASI Sexual Behavior Assessment: Lance Pollack, PhD
- March 2011 — Sex, Drugs, and HIV—Decomposing Network Contributions of Different Risk Behaviors: Jimi Adams, PhD
- January 2011 — Cognitive Interviewing
- How Cognitive Interviewing Works: Johnny Blair, Abt. Associates
- A Conversation about Conversational Interviewing: Frederick Conrad, PhD, University of Michigan
- December 2010 — The iPrEx Study: Chemoprophylaxis for HIV Infection: Dave Glidden, PhD, Professor, Division of Biostatistics
- New England Journal of Medicine article: Preexposure Chemoprophylaxis for HIV Prevention in Men Who Have Sex with Men (Note: this article is available for free only during the month of December 2010.)
- November 2010 — Handling X-side Missing Data with Mplus: Tor Neilands, PhD
- PDF of the Mplus outputs, which contain the Mplus input file information and corresponding output for all 4 examples discussed in the slides (Warning: this is a very long file)
- usnews.dta: Stata version of the Paul Allison USNews data set used in the first example
- usnews.txt: ASCII version of the USNews data set
- usnews_Mplus_Models.do: Stata.do file version of the 4 Allison Mplus examples
- Allison_Example_Stata-to-Mplus.log: Log file of Stata version of the 4 Allison Mplus linear regression examples
- Hoff_Mplus_Models.do: Stata.do file version of the 2 Hoff Mplus examples
- Hoff_Example_Stata-to-Mplus.log: Log file of Stata version of the 2 Hoff clustered logistic regression examples
- October 2010 — Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling/Causal Inference Methods: Maya Petersen, PhD, MD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, UC Berkeley
- May 2010 — Medication Adherence�
- Medication Adherence: Tailoring the Analysis to the Data: Parya Saberi
- Log-Gamma Modeling of HIV Medication Adherence Data Using SAS: Tor Neilands
- PDF of slides
- Janet Tooze mixcorr SAS macro program to fit the zero-inflated log-gamma with random intercepts model
- Tooze article that provides the statistical background for the macro
- PDF of Dale McLerran post to SAS-L listserv
- SAS programs used to analyze the HLP and Balance data
- April 2010 — Journal Club: Discussion of an article by Meng in the American Statistician.�
- February 2010 — On Double Sampling Designs for Dropouts: Dave Glidden, PhD�
- January 2010 — New Features in Stata 11
Estie Hudes, PhD, MPH: More about mi/What’s New 10 to 11/Stata goodies
Tor Neilands, PhD: The mi command for Multiple Imputations
Lance Pollack, PhD: Factor Variables
Starley Shade, PHD, MPH: The margin command- Materials from the presentations (Zip file)
- A link to the one-day Stata short course materials and datasets can be obtained by opening Stata 11 and issuing the command
. net from http://www.stata.com/training/02oct2009.
- December 2009 — Statistical CSI: An attempt to detect fraud in papers published from a medical biochemistry department by Mark Hudes, PhD
- November 2009 — Searching for Latent Patterns in Longitudinal Data: How Well Do Latent Growth Mixture Models Work? by Kevin Delucchi , PhD
- October 2009 — Application of Growth Mixture Models to Explore Multiple Developmental Trajectories by Christy Boscardin, PhD
- September 2009 — Report back from the August 2009 Stata Conference in Washington DC by Estie Hudes, PhD, MPH
- Link to the Stata Conference DC 2009: http://www.stata.com/meeting/dcconf09/
- July 2009 — Introduction to probability sampling: concepts, practices, and pitfalls by Johnny Blair
- May 2009 — Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs: Changing the Population Sampled in Response to Already Accrued Data by Michael Rosenblum, PhD
- April 2009 — Probability Sampling in a Bathhouse Setting: Purpose, Practice, and Practicality by Paul Cotten
- March 2009 — Mediation Models with Binary Outcomes and/or Binary Mediators by Steve Gregorich
- February 2009 — Long-term treatment effects from a short-term RCT with a long-term, treatment-only extension by Eric Vittinghoff, PhD, MPH
- January 2009 — Causal Inference Issues in Randomized HIV Prevention Studies by David Glidden, PhD
- September 2008 — StudyTRAX software and its new features demonstration by John Putzke, PhD, MSPH
- June 2008 — Can Nonrandomized Experiments Yield Accurate Answers? A Randomized Experiment Comparing Random to Nonrandom Assignment by Dr. William Shadish�
- April 2008 — Basics of Interim Analysis by Dr. Dave Glidden
- March 2008 — Prediction of random effects and effects of misspecification of their distributions by Dr. Charles McCulloch
- February 2008 — Using Regression to Analyze Randomized Trials: Valid Hypothesis Tests Despite Incorrectly Specified Models by Dr. Michael Rosenblum
- January 2008 — Repeated measures models with multiple, correlated random effects by Dr. Steve Gregorich
- November 2007 — The Bathwater Has No Baby, and the Clothes Have No Emperor: Coming to Terms with Self-Responsibility in Science and in Real Life by Dr. Mike Acree
- October 2007 — Respondent-Driven Sampling by Dr. Matthew Salganik
- An introduction to respondent-driven sampling: presentation and article
- Respondent-Driven Sampling as Markov Chain Monte Carlo: presentationand article
- September 2007 — Designing Effective Questionnaires: An Exploration of the Psychology of Question-Answering by Dr. Jon Krosnick
- June 2007 — Statistical Mediation Analysis by Dr. David MacKinnon
- May 2007 — Multiple Events in Applications: Ventilator-Free Days in Critical Care by Dr. David Glidden
- April 2007 — Enhancement of data management and epidemiological skills: analysis of the effects of hormonal contraception on the natural history of HIV-1-infected women in Nairobi and Zimbabwe by Christina Mwachari, MD
- March 2007 — Handling Missing Data by Tor Neilands and Estie Hudes
- February 2007 — Structural Equation Modeling Software Capabilities of General Interest
- January 2007 — The Tribulations of a Trial: Design Dilemmas in Testing the Efficacy of a Community-Level HIV Prevention Intervention for Young Black MSM by Susan M. Kegeles, Greg Rebchook, John Peterson, and Dave Huebner
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