Biostatistics 690P - Topics/Biostats&Data Sci/Pubhl
Spring
2023
01
3.00
Jing Qian,Chi Hyun Lee,Raji Balasubramanian,Nicholas Reich,Leontine Alkema,Zhengqing Ouyang
TU TH 2:30PM 3:45PM
UMass Amherst
59043
Engineering Lab II Room 115
qian@schoolph.umass.edu
chihyunlee@umass.edu
rbalasub@schoolph.umass.edu
nick@umass.edu
lalkema@umass.edu
ouyang@schoolph.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