Upcoming seminars
Dr. Steve Gregorich, ”Use Exploratory Factor Analysis Oblique Principal Component Cluster Analysis to uncover the underlying structure of self-report instruments“
Friday, May 18, 2012, 10-11:30.
Location: 50 Beale Street/13th floor/McKusick Conference Room.
Materials from past seminars
Qualitative
- March 2010 - Diving in: Rapid Appraisal and Its Application by Emily Arnold, PhD
Quantitative
- April 2012 – “Strengthening Causal Inference in HIV Prevention Studies: Introduction and Practical Examples”, Drs. Camlin, Kang Dufour, Lippman & 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, by Jimi Adams, PhD
- January 2011 – Cognitive Interviewing
- How Cognitive Interviewing Works, by Johnny Blair, Abt. Associates
- A Conversation about Conversational Interviewing by Frederick Conrad, PhD, University of Michigan
- December 2010 - The iPrEx Study: Chemoprophylaxis for HIV Infection, by 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, by Tor Neilands PhD
- PDF of the Mplus outputs, which contain the Mplus input file information and corresponding output for all four 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 four Allison Mplus examples
- Allison_Example_Stata-to-Mplus.log: Log file of Stata version of the four Allison Mplus linear regression examples
- Hoff_Mplus_Models.do: Stata .do file version of the two Hoff Mplus examples
- Hoff_Example_Stata-to-Mplus.log: Log file of Stata version of the two Hoff clustered logistic regression examples
- October 2010 – Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling / Causal Inference Methods by Dr. Maya Petersen, PhD, MD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, UC Berkeley
- May 2010 -
- Medication Adherence: Tailoring the Analysis to the Data by Parya Saberi
- Log-Gamma Modeling of HIV Medication Adherence Data Using SAS by 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, with Discussion/Comments. The collection of articles is available here.
- February 2010 - On Double Sampling Designs for Dropouts by Dave Glidden Also, R code for computation of the total variance, including the variance due to double sampling
- 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- See the 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
- See the materials from the presentations (Zip file)
- 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 for more details and dowloadable materials: 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, presented byJohn Putzke, Ph.D., M.S.P.H.
- June 2008 – Can Nonrandomized Experiments Yield Accurate Answers? A Randomized Experiment Comparing Random to Nonrandom Assignment? presented by Dr. William Shadish. Presentation handouts and article
- April 2008 - Basics of Interim Analysis presented by Dr. Dave Glidden,
- March 2008 - Prediction of random effects and effects of misspecification of their distributions presented by Dr. Charles McCulloch
- February 2008 - Using Regression to Analyze Randomized Trials: Valid Hypothesis Tests Despite Incorrectly Specified Models presented 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 presented by Dr. Mike Acree
- October 2007 - Presentations 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 presented by Dr. Jon Krosnick
- June 2007 - Statistical Mediation Analysis presented by Dr. David MacKinnon
- May 2007 - Multiple Events in Applications: Ventilator-Free Days in Critical Care presented 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 presented by Christina Mwachari, MD
- March 2007 -Handling Missing Data presented 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 presented by Susan M. Kegeles, Greg Rebchook, John Peterson, Dave Huebner
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