Biostatistics 690P - Topics/Biostats&Data Sci/Pubhl
Spring
2021
01
3.00
Leontine Alkema;Jing Qian;Raji Balasubramanian;Chi Hyun Lee;Ken Kleinman;Laura Balzer;Zhichao Jiang
TU TH 10:00AM 11:15AM
UMass Amherst
85076
Fully Remote Class
lalkema@umass.edu;qian@schoolph.umass.edu;rbalasub@schoolph.umass.edu;chihyunlee@umass.edu;kkleinman@umass.edu;lbalzer@umass.edu;zhichaojiang@umass.edu
The course introduces advanced central topics in biostatistics and health data science including survival analysis, design and analysis of clinical trials, models for correlated data, bayesian modeling, and causal inference. The course motivates statistical reasoning and methods through substantive research questions and features of data typically available in public health and biomedical research. Students will obtain hands-on experience in applying selected methods on real data using the statistical programming language R.
BIOSTATS 690Z