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LSUHSC School of Public Health

Biostatistics Program
Fall 2005
Instructor: Stephen W. Looney, PhD

Course Information

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Revised and Updated Course Outline (new!)

SimCalc

Screenshots for SimCalc

Lectures 1 & 2 - 8 -22 -05 and 8-24-05
(handwritten)

Zip file for StatCalc

Lecture 3: 9-26-05

Website for textbook price comparisons

Assignment 1 - Due October 5, 2005

Solutions for Assignment 1

Lecture 4: 9-28-05

Lecture 5: 10-3-05

Physician's Aspirin Study (abstract only)

Physician's Aspirin S tudy article

Computer Lab I: 10-3-05

SAS Code for carcinogenicity example

SAS output for approximate carcinogenicity results

SPSS database for carcinogenicity example

SPSS syntax for carcinogenicity example

SPSS output for carcinogenicity example

Screenshots for SPSS analysis of carcinogenicity data

Lecture 6: 10-5-05

Toxicology and Trauma Article

Assignment 2: Due 10-17-05

Solutions for Assignment 2

Lecture 7: 10-10-05

Lecture 8: 10-12-05

Extra Reading Assignment for Lecture 8

Lecture 9: 10-17-05

Computer Lab 2: 10-19-05

SAS code for Physician's Aspirin Study Example

SAS code for alcohol disorder example

SAS code for mechanism of injury example

SAS code for tea-tasting example

SPSS syntax for mechanism of injury

SAS code for oral lesions example

SAS code for infant malformation example

Computer Lab 2 - Reading Assignment

Assignment 3: Due 10-26-05

Solutions to Assignment 3

Lecture 10: 10-24-05

Lecture 11: 10-26-05

Supplement - Presented 10-31-05

SAS code for esophageal cancer
example

Assignment 4: Due 11-7-05

Solutions to Assignment 4

Lecture 12: 10-31-05

Extra Reading Assignment for Lecture 12

Lecture 13: 11-02-05

SAS data step for horseshoe crab data

Lecture 14: 11-7-05

Lecture 15: 11-9-05

Lecture 16: 11-14-05

Computer Lab 3: 11-16-05 (Part I)

SAS Code for Table 4.1

SAS Output for Table 4.1

SAS Code for Poisson Regression Analysis of
Horseshoe Crab Data

SAS Output for Poisson Regression
Analysis of Horseshoe Crab Data

SAS Code for Logistic Regression Analysis of
Horseshoe Crab Data Using PROC GENMOD

SAS Output for Logistic Regression
Analysis of Horseshoe Crab Data
Using PROC GENMOD

Computer Lab 3: 11-2 1 -05 (Part II)

SAS Code for Performing Logistic Regression

Ungrouped Horseshoe Crab Data

SAS Output

Grouped Horseshoe Crab Data

SAS Output

Exact A nalysis o f Grouped Data

SAS Output

Assignment 5: Due 11-30-05

Solutions to Assignment 5

Final Exam: Due 12-12-05

END OF COURSE

BIOS 6250 MULTIVARIATE METHODS

Probability Plot Article

Repeated Measures Article

Multivariate Normality Article

Factor Analysis Article

Other articles (copies pending)

Shapiro, S.S., And Wilk, M.B. (1968), "Approximations for the Null Distribution of the W
Statistic," Technometrics, 10, 861-866.
Horswell, R.L., and Looney, S.W. (1993), "Diagnostic Limitations of Skewness
Coefficients in Assessing Departures From Univariate and Multivariate Normality,"
Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 22, 437-459.

SAS Code for Assessing Univariate & Multivariate Normality

Example 4.10

Example 5.2 - original data

Example 5.2 - principal components

Example 5.2 - Srivastava-Hui Tests - corrected

Corrected output

Example 5.2 - Box Cox Transformation

SAS Code for Performing Multivariate Tests

Example 5.2 - Hotelling's T^^2 for 1 mean vector

Olanzapine Example - 1 group rep. meas.

Olanzapine Manuscript

Exercise 6.22 - Hotellings T^^2 for 2 mean vectors