Department New Year Potluck Luncheon Event Details Date: This Friday, January 10th Time: 12pm 1pm Location: Big Conference Room/Break Room at 2525 WEA ...
Regression Modeling Strategies Short Course 2015 #AboutAnch About the Course Four Session Short Course for Regression Modeling Strategies by Frank E. Harrell, Jr ...
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Some modest suggestions to make Linux desktop computing easier and safer Linux Workshop presentation for Wednesday 31 March 2010 xrandr output LVDS1 mode 1280x800 ...
ASAP: An open source framework for building and executing a pipeline to preprocess next generation sequence data and variant calls. Advanced Sequence Automated Pipeline ...
Bi Monthly Administrative Team Meeting March 2, 2010 11:30AM 12:30PM 569PRB Good News * Welcome: * Audrey Carvajal, Temporary Administrative Support (VTS ...
Administrative Team Meeting May 4, 2010 11:30AM 12:30PM 569PRB Good News Abby will be headlining (with Abby and the Soul Catchers) at the Lowertown Music and Arts ...
Administrative Team Meeting July 6, 2010 11:30AM 12:30PM Patio, Main office * Good News * Linda moves back home * Robert and Aixiang homes are progressing ...
ATOM: Association Test via Optimally weighted Markers URL of this page: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/ATOM This program is written in R (www.r project.org). The ...
New Staff Process/Procedures * Department Administrator will contact HR consultant re new position, then request preparation of PDQ or PDQ (EZ) for posting of ...
December * PCard Policy: New requirements and transaction control log * Cardholders review their transactions daily/weekly in the PaymentNet * Cardholder ...
Ahra Kim Biostatistician II Email: ahra.kim #64;vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.343.3298 Vanderbilt University Medical CenterDepartment of Biostatistics2525 West ...
My R Functions Create time intervals data for time varying covariates in survival analysis When several time varying covariates present in survival analysis, creating ...
Zhiguo (Alex) Zhao, M.S. Biostatistician III Contact Information Office Address : 571 Preston Research Building VICC Cancer Biostatistics Center Department ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Alexandria Jensen, PhD Candidate in Biostatistics" AFFILIATION="University of Colorado, Denver" TITLE="Statistical methods for network association ...
Alfresco User Notes Link for our Alfresco server: * http://alfrescologin.com/ * http://vbiostat.alfrescologin.com/ * https://biostats.app.vumc.org Do not ...
Upcoming Meetings 2016 * November 30, 2016 2015 * October 7th, 2015* * January 7th, 2015* Past Meetings 2014 * February 5, 2014* 2013 November 6th, 2013 August ...
All Department Meeting Wednesday, November 30, 2016 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., MRB III Room 1220 PEOPLE * Departures * Meridith Blevins, Assistant In Biostatistics ...
All Department Meeting Wednesday, October 7th, 2105 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. MRB III Room 1220 Reminders PEOPLE * Departures * Steven Chen * Pengcheng ...
Amber Hackstadt, PhDAssistant Professor E mail: amber.hackstadt@vanderbilt.edu Phone: (615) 875 9512 Vanderbilt University Department of Biostatistics 2525 West ...
Amy J. Graves Biostatistician II E mail: amy.j.graves@Vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.343.4023 Fax: 615.343.4924 Vanderbilt University School of MedicineDepartment ...
Amy M. Perkins, MS Principal Biostatistician E mail: Amy.Perkins@vumc.org Phone: 615.875.9582 Fax: 615.343.4924 Vanderbilt University Medical CenterDepartment ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Andrea B. Troxel, ScD" AFFILIATION="Director, Division of Biostatistics Professor, Department of Population Health NYU Grossman School of Medicine ...
%HEAD{ NAME=" Andrew D. Althouse" AFFILIATION="Senior Principal Statistician Medtronic PLC" TITLE=" What’s It Like To Be A Statistician On A Platform Trial During ...
Andrew J. Tomarken, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biostatistics E mail: andrew.j.tomarken@vanderbilt.edu Website: Vanderbilt PsychologyVanderbilt UniversityDepartment ...
Recent Grant Proposals Project ID PI name Grant Name Funding Agency Submission Date Results Bruehl01 Bruehl, Stephen CRPS after Total Knee Replacement ...
Introduction to Biostatistics Short Course Thanks to Chris Slaughter and Frank Harrell for allowing me to use their course notes as a basis for developing many of ...
Angel An , M.S. Biostatistician III E mail: angel.an@vanderbilt.edu Phone: (615) 936 8847 Fax: (615) 343 4924 Office: D 2217A Medical Center North (MCN) Vanderbilt ...
The link "vaxgen2.svg" at the bottom of this page is an animated VaxGen sensitivity analysis of the difference in the probability of initiating antiretroviral therapy ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Anru Zhang, PhD" AFFILIATION=" Eugene Anson Stead, Jr. M.D. Associate Professor Primary faculty member in the Department of Biostatistics Bioinformatics ...
Staff Biostatistician Hiring Process The following is an outline of the application and hiring process for Department of Biostatistics staff statisticians. If you ...
April 20, 2010 (MRBIII, Room 1220 1:30PM) Good News * PEOPLE * New employees: Audrey Carvajal, Office Assistant II (part time); Seth Martin, Financial ...
* Good News PEOPLE * Computing techniques/updates (FEH) * Discussion Board (N Mercaldo) and R Clinic (C Fonnesbeck) * New faculty and staff * Steve ...
Audrey Carvajal Manager Administrative Email: audrey.carvajal@vumc.orgPhone: 615.343.7376Fax: 615.343.4924 Vanderbilt University School of MedicineDepartment ...
Ayumi K. Shintani, PhD, M.P.H. Associate Professor of Biostatistics E mail: ayumi.shintani@vanderbilt.eduPhone: 615.936.1954Fax: 615.343.4924 Vanderbilt University ...
Cole Beck's Baseball data set problem The goal of this problem was to 'reshape' the original data set (bos_pit.csv) to the desired data set. * bos_pit.csv The following ...
Recommendations, Analyses, and Data for Biostatistics Basic and Animal Research Clinic Click here for older notes Biostatistics vs. Lab Research (aka I Need 3 Patients ...
Bayesian Data Analysis With OpenBUGS, BRugs, and JAGS IBC *members: Yi He, William Wu, Heidi Chen, Angel An, Cindy Chen and Chuan Zhou Software download: * WinBUGS ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Rebecca Anthopolos, PhD" AFFILIATION="Columbia University" TITLE="Bayesian Modeling of Latent Heterogeneity in Complex Survey Data and Electronic ...
Benjamin R. Saville, Ph.D. Adjunct Assistant Professor Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics 2525 West End, Ste. 11000 Nashville ...
General Handouts and Reference Material on Biostatistical Modeling * Syllabus from a course on Biostatistical Modeling (updated 9Jan03; click here for a pdf file ...
Macintosh Setup for Brother HL 5470DW monochrome laser printer This topic outlines the steps to install the "biogradprinter1" printer on Macintosh computers. For command ...
Attachments Notes: * Notes on Rosner Ch 1 and 2 * Bayes and ROC lecture * Law of large numbers lecture * What if there were no LLN lecture * Likelihood ...
Bios 311 Syllabus The syllabus will be updated weekly. Thursday, August 21 Learning Objectives (LOs) * Get a sense of the class; determine if it is a good fit ...
BIOS 330 Assignment Zero Your assignment is to install and configure R and RStudio to produce an html file from the reproducible knitr document below. 1 Install ...
Biosketches Notes How to map (mount) the network share Please contact or direct requests for Biosketch and Other Support to our editorial assistant, Michael Wade ...
Vanderbilt University Master of Public Health Biostatistics II The following data sets are used in my class. See the reference for these data sources here. Stata ...
Vanderbilt University Masters of Public Health Biostatistics II Lecture Notes for 2010 Text: Dupont WD: Statistical Modeling for Biomedical Researchers, 2nd Edition ...
Vanderbilt University Master of Public Health Biostatistics II 514 5509 Overview Modern multivariate analyses, based on the concept of generalized linear models ...
On March 13, we will have a class discussing sample size calculation in biomedical research with guest lecturer, Meridith Blevins. We will have a demonstration of ...
On September 22, we will have a class discussing data visualization in biomedical research with guest lecturer, Meridith Blevins. We will review a basic recipe for ...
On October 12, we will have a 3 hour seminar discussing measurement, data collection, analysis and sample size determination in biomedical research with guest lecturers ...
Software and Example Code for Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for Means and Differences in Means The following uses the simple nonparametric bootstrap percentile approach ...
Bosenberg's (1995) Paper and SED Data Notes Bosenberg, A. T. (1995) "Skin epidural distance in children." Anaesthesia. 50: 895 897. * SED Data (digitized from ...
Notes for box.com on Linux Please read VUMC's documentation to get started. The notes below supplement the documentation. Note: VUMC does allow us to use box.com ...
Bryan Shepherd, PhD Professor Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs E mail: bryan.shepherd@vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615 343 3496 Fax: 615 343 4924 Office: 2525 West End ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Estimating the Optimal CD4 count for HIV infected Persons to Initiate Antiretroviral Therapy Bryan Shepherd, ...
Materials for Bryan Shepherd Important Components of ASA Nomination Guidelines for Letters of Support ASA Fellows Home Page * Letters of support are generally ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series From neuroscience to national science Three problems across the union of geometry and policy Christopher D. ...
Bioinformatics_supporting_files.tgz: Simulation programs and results for our paper: Airey DC, Li C (2011) Functional mapping of drug dose response quantitative trait ...
Cardiovascular Medicine Journal Club Statistical Questions and Commentary by Frank Harrell Randomized trial of intravenous streptokinas, oral aspirin, both, or neither ...
Cardiovascular Medicine Active Projects Manuscript DAYLIGHT: Randomized Clinical Trial of High Dose Vitamin D for Treating Hypertension * PI: Tommy Wang * ...
Division of Cancer Biostatistics continuing education Cancer biostatistics journal club Discovery Lecture series * 2011/10/27 Lora Hooper, PhD. "Immune adaptations ...
A plot that illustrates the effect of categorizing continuous covariates in a logistic regression model The idea behind this problem is the fact that fitting a categorized ...
Cathy Jenkins Biostatistician IV E mail: cathy.jenkins@vumc.org Phone: 615.322.9068 Fax: 615.343.4924 Vanderbilt University School of MedicineDepartment ...
Ce'Aira M. Arvinger, M.Ed. Administrative Assistant II Email: ceaira.m.arvinger@vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.936.6760 Fax: 615.936.2602 Vanderbilt University School ...
CEASAR Aim 1 with 3 year follow up data This will address the same aim 1 objective comparing treatments with respect to function outcomes that we did for the one year ...
Title: Continuing Education for Masters Biostatisticians Third Thursday of the month. Participants: Tebeb Gebretsadik, William Wu Brief description: The objective ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 09 Nov 2012 Vanderbilt Center for Surgical Quality Outcomes Research Projects on their own page * CeasarData * CeasarProjTxVars * CeasarProject ...
Threshold Results for CES D Ok, thanks. Try to get in touch with me by 2pm if you can. I've finished the parts of the threshold tasks for CES D. I copied the results ...
Baby Books Project Documents Baby Books Research Aims: Here is an editable document that includes prioritized research aims for the Baby Books project. Logic Model ...
Christopher Fonnesbeck Adjoint Associate Professor of Biostatistics Research Interests * Computational statistics * Hierarchical modeling * Bayesian statistics ...
Chris (James C.) Slaughter, DrPH Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics 2525 West End Avenue, Suite 11000 Nashville, TN 37203 1738 james ...
Main.ChrisSlaughter 13 Jun 2009 History of the Slaughter Name Introduction The following is my initial attempt to describe the long, paternal branch of my family ...
Chuan Zhou, PhD Assistant Professor of Biostatistics E mail: chuan.zhou@vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.343.4472 Fax: 615.343.4924 Office: MCN D 2207Vanderbilt ...
Chun Li, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics Investigator, Center for Human Genetics Research E mail: #99; #104; #117; #110; #046; #108; #105 ...
Chun's Stata Notes In this page, EMS refers to Essential Medical Statistics, a very good introductory book on biostatistics. Getting help Help pages: Type help ...
Chung I Li Bioinformatician I Email: chung i.li@vanderbilt.eduPhone: 615.936.7652 Fax: 615.936.2602 Vanderbilt University School of MedicineDivision of Cancer ...
Claudia Calderon, MBA Assistant To The Chair Email: claudia.calderon@vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.343.9940 Fax: 615.343.4924 Vanderbilt University School ...
Validation of Discoveries and Validation of the Predictive Performance of Clinical Models Note: On 1Nov04, Steve Goodman, statistical editor of the Annals of Internal ...
Assignments and Exercises There will be a few short assignments to stimulate discussion and to identify weak areas. We will discuss each during class. Exercise 1 ...
Lecture 1: Introduction Key Concepts 1 Biostatistics is the application of statistical methods to biological research including laboratory experiments, medical ...
Labs for Data Analysis Periodically we will devote a class session to applied data analysis. The purpose of the lab is two fold: (1) to assist with planning your analysis ...
Clinical Trials Methodology * Trial Protocol Tool from http://www.practihc.org, the PRACTIHC collaboration Pragmatic RAndomized Controlled Trials in Health Care ...
General Statistical Ideas * Biostatistics for Biomedical Research: Primary Notes R Code for Chapters in Notes * Data science open training * Glossary of ...
Clinical and Health Research Clinic Click here for 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and before. Current Notes (2023) 2023 December 7 Tara ...
The analysis code for the paper, 'Sensitivity analysis of per protocol time to event treatment efficacy in randomized blinded trials' by Gilbert PB, Shepherd BE, and ...
The following code was used for the manuscript "Sensitivity analyses comparing time to event outcomes only existing in a subset selected postrandomization and relaxing ...
* Name: Cole Beck * Email: cole.beck #64;vumc.org * Phone: 3 6007 * Location: 2525 * Comment: You should call me if you need access to the Biostatistic ...
%HEAD{ NAME=" Colin O. Wu, PhD" AFFILIATION=" Office of Biostatistics Research Division of Intramural Research National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute National ...
Biostatistics Collaborations The table below includes assignments on our Collaboration Plan as well as other long term collaborative arrangements, some of them supported ...
Linux Workshop Helpful Command Line Utilities July 27, 2005 Quick Special Symbols Primer * ~ expands to your home directory (Example: cd ~) * . expands ...
Main.DianeKolb 18 May 2009 Commencement 2009 Loading image. Please wait Commencement 2009 Do What? Go Where? The Faculty Five The Faculty Five in All Their Splendor ...
Commencement 2010 Loading image. Please wait Commencement 2010 All Dressed and Ready 2 Go The Faculty Seven The Faculty Seven in All Their Splendor Off to the event ...
The following two files were used for the analyses presented in the manuscript "Applying two methods for estimating the optimal CD4 threshold for initiating antiretroviral ...
Journal Club for Analysis of Complex Datasets Sebastiani et al, Nature Genetics 37:435;2005: Genetic dissection and prognostic modeling of overt stroke in sickle ...
Generating a complex table of drug, disease, and phase Synopsis of Problem: * Trying to create a table which lists the drugs and diseases for a given phase or combination ...
Computing Clinic The Computing Clinic is currently on an extended hiatus (as of 12/2013) while the department's administration structure is being reorganized. We ...
Constantin Aliferis, M.D., Ph.D. Adjunct Associate Professor of Biostatistics E mail: constantin.aliferis@nyumc.org Website: NYUNew York University Langone Medical ...
Continuing Education/Methods Implementation Workshop Continuing Education/Methods Implementation Workshops are scheduled on the third Friday of each month at 1pm 2pm ...
Bios 7323: Applied Survival Analysis Summary: This is an introductory course in the analysis of time to event data where censoring and truncation may be present. Upon ...
BIOS 6341: Introduction to Probability and Statistical Theory (Fall 2016) See BIOS6341Course for the course's current syllabus. Instructor * Bryan Shepherd, ...
This page is for a past edition of this course. To view the current course description, visit https://www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistics graduate/course descriptions ...
BIOS 6321: Clinical trials and experimental design (Spring 2020) For students only * Restricted access Instructor * Tatsuki Koyama, PhD, Associate professor ...
Continuous Quality Improvement Projects Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) means continuous actions performed in order to enhance work environment, processes and ...
Bayesian Adaptive Study Design Supported by VICTR Biostatistics Core The VICTR biostatistics core has a Bayesian adaptive study design component. Under this effort ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Mixed effects Models with Variance Heterogeneity David Afshartous, PhD Assistant Professor of Statistics, Division ...
Preparing data for survival analysis Our original data file, temp.csv, has repeated glucose values for each subject (DeID) at various times points (Time) from both ...
Tools for Team Work Frequently we work in teams. Team work requires that we find some way to store and share code, data, notes, comments, to do lists, documents, and ...
Stata Code Examples Reproducible research with Stata I have recently become aware of a Stata package called MarkDoc. It process the scml file and runs the result ...
Gregory D. (Dan) Ayers, M.S. Senior Associate in Biostatistics E mail: dan.ayers #64;vumc.org Phone: 615.343.9180 Fax: 615.343.4924 Division of Cancer Biostatistics ...
The main idea is that the leaders at NIH want to encourage medical researchers to be more efficient in using the taxpayers' money to provide solutions to the citizens ...
Dandan Liu, Ph.D. Associate Professor E mail: dandan dot liu at vanderbilt dot edu Phone: 615 322 8318 Fax: 615 343 4924 Office: 11135 Vanderbilt University ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Dandan Liu, PhD" AFFILIATION="Vanderbilt University Medical Center" TITLE="Target Population Risk Prediction with Time to Event Outcome" IMAGELINK ...
Daniel W. Byrne Director of Artificial Intelligence Research, AVAIL Advanced Vanderbilt Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Senior Associate in Biostatistics ...
General Data Analysis Discussion Board Discussions related to Rafe Donahue's 11Oct06 seminar in the Department FrankHarrell's comments Rafe's excellent seminar yesterday ...
## R code used for the simulations in the manuscript "Accounting for data errors discovered from an audit in multiple linear regression" by Bryan E. Shepherd and Chang ...
Data Protection Recommendations and Resources Department of Biostatistics Data Security Policy Introduction Given the high risk of information exposure, specific ...
Procedures for Preparing Datasets for Analysis and for Transmission to the Department of Biostatistics Data Sharing Data must be in a rectangular format with one ...
This web page will be used to post information and software packages of statistical methods for data validation and audits. Our basic idea is to use information learned ...
The generic datadensity() function The datadensity() function is a generic functions used to show data densities in more complex situations. There are two class specific ...
David Afshartous, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University 2525 West End, Ste. 11000 Nashville, TN 37203 e mail: ...
David Jeffrey Schlueter Graduate Student Vanderbilt University CV CV_2017.pdf Links * Github * Gists Contact E mail david.j.schlueter #64;vanderbilt ...
David Tabb Contact Info * Email: david.l.tabb #64;vanderbilt.edu * Phone Number: 936 0380 * Comment: In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem ...
%HEAD{ NAME=" Dean Follmann" AFFILIATION="Assistant Director for Biostatistics National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases" TITLE=" Crossover and Individual ...
%HEAD{ NAME=" Dehan Kong, PhD" AFFILIATION=" Associate Professor in statistics University of Toronto" TITLE=" Fighting Noise with Noise: Causal Inference with Many ...
Deming Mi Biostatistian II E mail: deming.mi@vanderbilt.edu Phone: Fax: 615.343.4924 Vanderbilt University School of MedicineDepartment of BiostatisticsS ...
Installing Department Printers on Windows Computers Note this is specific to the HP Color LaserJet M651 printers in the Department of Biostatistics. Click here for ...
Department Computing Operations * Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) * Getting Started at Vanderbilt Biostatistics (includes IT information) * Linux Workshops ...
Our Department Vision What is Biostatistics?Biostatisticians are specialists in the evaluation of data as scientific evidence. They understand the generic construct ...
Good News People New Employees David Afshartous, Hui Nian and Hank Domenico Administrative Team Roles and Responsibilities Community Giving Campaign Leaders Seth ...
Department of Biostatistics Operations wiki Faculty * Biosketch Information (see also Curriculum Vitae) * Procedures for submitting grant application ...
Reminders for Department Faculty and Staff Effort Reporting 1 At all times know the sources of your salary support and the percent efforts from each source. You ...
Derek K Smith, D.D.S., Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Oral Maxillofacial Surgery Assistant Director of Supportive Oncology E mail: derek ...
The Design Package The Design package is now obsolete. R users must use the rms package instead * Overview of the Design Library * Online Help Documentation ...
Examples of Use of rms Functions * Survival Analysis and Nomogram Graphing for Prostate Dataset * Nomogram for Various Predicted Values from Parametric Survival ...
Lag Difference and Residual Graphics for Spatial Time Series The following are graphics that went into making our poster handout for the JSM 2006 Data Expo. For this ...
General Information about LaTeX and other Document Processing Tools * Comprehensive TeX Archive Network * Online LaTeX Documentation FAQ Schneider's Resources ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Donglin Zeng, PhD" AFFILIATION="Professor of Biostatistics The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor " TITLE="Learning Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimens ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Donglin Zeng, PhD" AFFILIATION="Full Professor Department of Biostatistics The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor " TITLE="Learning Optimal Dynamic ...
Dynamite Plots More * The height of a bar indicates the mean, and the vertical line on top of it represents the standard deviation (or standard error). ...
Useful Stuff in R: Inserting Latex Tables into Microsoft Word Theresa A Scott, M.S. Biostatistician II, Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University School ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Emerging International Standards for Research Integrity: The 2010 Singapore Statement Elizabeth Heitman, PhD ...
Elizabeth Koehler, MS Contact Info * Email: e.koehler #64;vanderbilt.edu * Phone: 322 7193 Education * University of Washington MS in Biostatistics, ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Elizabeth Stuart, PhD" AFFILIATION="Associate Dean for Education, Professor Depts of Mental Health, Biostatistics, and Health Policy and Management ...
Emacs and ESS EmacsSpeaksStatistics more Emacs is an incredibly powerful text editor. It can be programmed to do anything. It was written before the advent of ...
Emacs, LaTeX, and UNIX Tools for Windows Users More Here Note: * The major components below are automatically available in Linux with very little effort (e.g ...
Email SMTP Change Required The Vanderbilt IT group is changing the way it provides SMTP service for those individuals who use an IMAP or POP3 email client (e.g. Thunderbird ...
/WereAllEars.jpg It’s time for Vanderbilt’s 2008 Community Survey! The 2008 Community Survey began today (March 10) at 12:01 AM and will end at 11:59 PM on March ...
Expectations for reporting to work during an inclement weather yellow or orange alert. Department exempt and non exempt staff should use good judgment in deciding ...
Empirical Likelihood Study Group Organizer: Chun Li Purpose Empirical likelihood is a nonparametric method of statistical inference. It has potential applications ...
Employee Recognition The goal of this page is have a record of Department Member's recognition for work on projects that are reported in Vanderbilt and other news ...
Encryption Tools for Workstations and Laptops Linux Workshop presentation 27 May 2009 On January 7, 2009, Dr. Stead broadcast an email message in which he discussed ...
The Enduring Concepts Work Group Discussions Overview of Curriculum 2.0 The purpose of the Curriculum 2.0 project is to develop a new model for educating physicians ...
Epi 8323: Design and Analysis with Time to Event Data (Spring 2021) Instructor * Chris Slaughter, DrPH, Associate Professor of Biostatistics Main Course Web ...
Yi (Ethan) Huang, M.S. Biostatistician II Email:yi.huang@vanderbilt.edu Phone: (615) 875 8620 Vanderbilt University School of MedicineCenter for Quantitative ...
Research Ethics and Responsible Conduct of Research Vanderbilt Ethics web sites * Responsible Conduct of Research * Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society ...
Eve Anderson Administrative Assistant II * Email: eve.a.anderson #64;vanderbilt.edu * Phone: 615.322.5543 Education: * Bachelor of Fine Arts: Middle ...
Evelyn Wu Biostatistician II E mail: yi chen.wu@vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.936.8815 Fax: 615.343.4924 Vanderbilt University School of MedicineDepartment ...
REGRESSION MODELING STRATEGIES with Applications to Linear Models, Logistic Regression, and Survival Analysis by FE Harrell * The book was published June 5 2001 ...
Presentations by Frank E Harrell Jr Note: Slides from more recent talks are contained in the Biostatistics for Biomedical Research handouts available at ClinStat The ...
Hobbies Jazz Guitar Classical Guitar Trumpet; goal is to be a decent player in 2022 Favorite Quotes * If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in ...
General Faculty Meeting 1Sept 10 * Good News People * New Employees: David Afshartous, Hui Nian and Hank Domenico * Administrative Team Roles and Responsibilities ...
Faculty Meeting November 11, 2011 View faculty meeting combined minutes for months of October and November 2011 Here * Good News People * Welcome new faculty ...
General Faculty Meeting 5 November 2014 People Growth Finance * Ron to discuss the following areas: * dbconnect requests * Hardware/Software purchases ...
Faculty Meeting October 5, 2011 View faculty meeting combined minutes for months of October and November 2011 Here * Good News People * New faculty and staff ...
Good News * Promotion * Tatsuki Koyama to Research Associate Professor * Heid Chen to Research Assistant Professor * William Wu to Research Assistant ...
Faculty Retreat 2015 11 13Department of Biostatistics2525 West End Avenue Archive Used during retreat: https://public.etherpad mozilla.org/p/VbiostatRetreat Vision ...
Faculty Time Reporting * Question: How is vacation, sick, bereavement, and personal time reported? * Answer: This is a department based decision, it's not ...
Faculty Leave Policy Benefits Click here to review Leave information in the Faculty Manual Click here to see general information at Vanderbilt University Human Resources ...
Fantasy Football What else did you think statisticians did for fun? Other than play ultimate. http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/biostat 2007 Results ...
Generating multiple regression models in a for loop Often, we wish to generate multiple regression models that are all similar, but all different. For example, all ...
Education MS in Bioinformatics, Dec 2009 Georgetown UniversityMS in Biostatistics, Dec 2007 University of Louisville Work Experience Biostatistician II Jan 2010 ...
Frank E Harrell Jr, PhDProfessor of BiostatisticsFounding Chair E mail: f.harrell@vumc.org Phone: 615.322.2001 Fax: 615.343.4924 Vanderbilt University ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Some New Directions in Statistical Computing Frank E. Harrell, Jr., PhD Professor Chair, Department of Biostatistics ...
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) VUMC IT Guide to Working Remotely VUMC information about communication and collaboration tools Department Facilities and Resources ...
Recommendations, Analyses, and Data for Biostatistics Basic and Animal Research Clinic Click here for older notes Biostatistics vs. Lab Research (aka I Need 3 Patients ...
Funny Quotes and Interesting books on Statistics * Some Quotable Quotes for Statistics, by J.E.H.Shaw * How We Know What Isn't So, by Thomas Gilovich * Why ...
GIST: Genotype IBD Sharing Test URL of this page: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/GIST GIST is a method for detecting association between marker genotypes and IBD ...
GWAsimulator: A rapid whole genome simulation program URL of this page: https://biostat.app.vumc.org/GWAsimulator Version 2.1, updated the Linux version to conform ...
Health services research, diagnosis, and prognosis Click here for 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and before. Current Notes (2023) 2023 December ...
General Policies of the Department * Professional Development Program * Summary of Travel Policy * General purchasing procedures * Staff and faculty relocation ...
Main.JonathanSchildcrout 31 Oct 2020 Supplementary Materials for "Should we implement geographic or patient reported social determinants of health measures in cardiovascular ...
GnuPG Privacy Guard Instructions These instructions tell you how to install and configure the high security free and open source encryption/decryption software called ...
Google Docs for reproducible manuscripts Google Docs is a cloud based word processor which offers: * simultaneous editing * flexible file sharing * revision ...
Install biostatcolor5 Printer on Macintosh Computers This topic outlines the steps to install the biostatcolor5 printer on Macintosh computers. For command line steps ...
Main.LaurieSamuels 30 Jul 2012 Helpful examples for and from graduate students * CloserLookSoyerHogarth.pdf: A closer look at “How economists get tripped up ...
Policies and Procedures for Grant Proposals Biostatisticians in the Department of Biostatistics participate in grant development in various ways including: * assisting ...
Below are the 3 files needed to build a grant proposal that was deemed acceptable by the NIH in February 008. That said, things may change. Note, that when you actually ...
Guanhua (Josh) Chen, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics University of Wisconsin Madison email: gchen25 #64;wisc.edu ...
First you need to download the latest ISO from kubuntu. Burn the ISO onto a CD and you will have a Kubuntu live CD. If you don't know how to make an ISO, ask the ...
HWECC: Hardy Weinberg test for case control data URL of this page: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/HWECC This program is written in R (www.r project.org). The main ...
HWETRIO: Hardy Weinberg test for trio data URL of this page: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/HWETRIO This program is written in R (www.r project.org). The program ...
Hakmook Kang, PhD Associate Professor of Biostatistics E mail: hakmook.kang@vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.343.1906 Fax: 615.343.4924 Office: 2525 West End Ave. ...
Department Hallway Display As of December 2013, The "Hallway Display" is not operating due to the department's move from Medical Center North to 2525 West End Avenue ...
Heather L. Prigmore Senior Biostatistician E mail: heather.l.prigmore@vumc.org Phone: (615) 875 4995 Fax: (615) 343 4924 Vanderbilt University Medical ...
Heidi Chen, PhD Research Associate Professor in Biostatistics E mail: heidi.chen #64;vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.936.7360Fax: 615.936.2602 Vanderbilt University ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series "Ethical Standards in Biostatistics: The American Statistical Association's Ethical Guidelines for Statistical ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series "Ethical Standards in Biostatistics: The American Statistical Association's Ethical Guidelines for Statistical ...
Henry (Hank) Domenico Principal Biostatistician E mail: henry.domenico@vumc.orgPhone: 615.875.3119Fax: 615.343.4924 Vanderbilt University School of MedicineDepartment ...
Section 1 In the first section, Dr. Li gave us a talk about the Mass Spectrometry data in his experiment. Please see the attachment below. Section 2 Deming gave ...
Section 1 In the first section, we talked about the projects in our hands: Fumiko's data and Dr.Li's coming data. Section 2 The mass spectra calibration problem ...
Section 1 In the first section, we talked about Fumiko's and Take's data sets. Section 2 The mass spectra calibration problem is discussed, and on Friday Shuo Chen ...
Jonathan Xu and Huiming Li gave us wonderful talks about the binnging algorithm and calibration. The main questions remain in Huiming's PSB's curve's statistical meaning ...
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%HEAD{ NAME="Karen Bandeen Roche, PhD" AFFILIATION="Frank Hurley and Catharine Dorrier Professor and Chair Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...
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A Quick Howto for Konqueror/Cervisia/CVS This brief tutoiral will teach you how to check out the rreport module from the Biostat server. You must have installed Cervisia ...
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R code for the Length of the Beatles Songs poster Have all three files in the same folder and run 'beatlesongs2012.R' to get BeatlesongsPoster2012.pdf. * Data ...
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Pharmacoepidemiology in Masters of Clinical Biomedical Science Program * Instructor: Patrick G. Arbogast, Ph.D * E mail: patrick.arbogast #64;vanderbilt.edu ...
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Main.LiWang 06 Dec 2011 Biostatistics MS journal club (2nd Thursday each month, topics may vary) Date Title/Topic Journal Faculty leading the discussion ...
Distance measures have been used as natural measures of (dis)similarity and served as the foundation of various learning methods. The efficiency of distance based ...
Backup for Macintosh Computers Links Mac OS X: Automatically connect to a network drive when your computer starts up or wakes from sleep http://www.makeuseof.com ...
Installing Macintosh Printers using the Command Line Note this is specific to the HP Color LaserJet M651 printers in the Department of Biostatistics. Click here ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Manisha Desai, PhD" AFFILIATION="Kim and Ping Li Professor of Medicine, Biomedical Data Science, and of Epidemiology and Population Health Associate ...
Biostatistics Authorship Policy Collaborating statisticians qualify for authorship on manuscripts and abstracts by meeting the criteria set forth below, which is derived ...
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Reweighted Mahalanobis Distance Matching in Observational Studies and Randomized Trials Matched Randomization R Package nbpMatching The current version of the R package ...
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nbpMatching Demo: Triplet Matching Prior to Randomization The following tutorial shows the R code to create matched triplets prior to randomizing in a three arm trial ...
Using the fill.missing() function The function fill.missing() is automatically called by gendistance(), so the user will often be able to skip calling it directly ...
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How Should Change be Measured? Newer Material, Section 14.4 * Analysis of Paired Observations * Frequently one makes multiple observations on same experimental ...
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%HEAD{ NAME="Michael Harhay, PhD" AFFILIATION="Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Pennsylvania " TITLE="Statistical methods for health system based cluster trials ...
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Mingsheng (Mike) Guo Bioinformaticist VICC Cancer Biostatistics Division, Department of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Email: mingsheng ...
Linux Workshop Modding Mozilla Themes extensions can enhance Firefox and Thunderbird June 29, 2005 * The web site for Firefox and Thunderbird extensions is ...
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Impact of definitions of loss to follow up on estimates of retention, mortality, and disease progression: Application to an HIV program in Mozambique Status: Published ...
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IT notes related to the N2QOD project Steps to produce the N2QOD reports (as of October 1, 2019) Log on to my account on biostat059.dhcp.mc.vanderbilt.edu Set default ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 15 Nov 2012 Sometimes we struggle to pronounce our colleagues' names. Many of the people in our department come from China, where tonal languages ...
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Grant Proposals 1 Dr Lori Jordan (11/14) Ischemic Brian Injury and Cognitive Impairment in Adolescents and Young Adults with Congenital Heart Disease 1 Dr Kanika ...
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Body Size, Glycohemoglobin, and Demographics from NHANES 2009 2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey * http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/nhanes2009 ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Ni Zhao, PhD" AFFILIATION="Associate professor of biostatistics Johns Hopkins University" TITLE="Addressing Known and Unknown Batch Effects in Microbiome ...
Vanderbilt Nigeria Biostatistics Workshop: Linear, Logistic, and Ordinal Regression Models with R Statistical Software Bayero University and Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital ...
Nonbipartite Matching Web Application A web application to perform nonbipartite matching is found at http://data.vanderbilt.edu/rapache/matching . The webapp implements ...
New Staff Orientation (Reference Guide) If you are funded by Federal projects, it is very important for you to complete on line effort reporting and certification ...
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Outcome Dependent Sampling for Longitudinal Data Analysis: Publications and Software This page provides references to papers and links to software associated with ...
Summary of OB/GYN Department Projects * Last update: 3/7/2012 The following provides a summary of current and completed OB/GYN research projects. For every project ...
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Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Improving Small Sample Inference in Group Randomized Trials with Binary Outcomes Philip Westgate, PhD Graduate ...
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Pidgin Instant Messaging Client Setup Jabber is an instant messaging protocol (like AIM) that has been installed on the Biostat server for use throughout the department ...
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Install PlayOnMac and Power and Sample Size program on Macintosh * Download PlayOnMac (the file is PlayOnMac_4.2.6.dmg as of 19 Feb 2015) * Double click on the ...
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%HEAD{ NAME="Benjamin Goldstein, PhD" AFFILIATION="Duke University" TITLE="Predicting Inpatient Deterioration: From Quality Improvement to Research (A story in ...
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%HEAD{ NAME="Qihuang Zhang, PhD" AFFILIATION="Assistant Professor Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health McGill University" TITLE ...
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Rafe Michael Joseph Donahue, PhD Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics E mail: rafe.donahue@vanderbilt.edu Bivariate Baseball Score Plots ...
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%HEAD{ NAME="Rebecca Hubbard, PhD" AFFILIATION="University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine" TITLE="A Statistical Perspective on Challenges and Opportunities ...
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Rhubarb Rhubarb is a Ruby on Rails application we're working on that is designed to be a data capture tool for the web. Below is a short explanation about how things ...
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Converting dates of the form 'mddyy' or 'mddyyyy' or 'mmddyy' or 'mmddyyyy' to the form 'YYYY MM DD' Theresa A Scott, M.S. Biostatistician II, Department of Biostatistics ...
Ricoh MP C4503 installation for Linux These commands will download and install a printer driver for the Ricoh MP C4503 printer/copier/fax/scan device. We call this ...
*NOTE*: This page has been replaced by more up to date material at https://hbiostat.org/rms REGRESSION MODELING STRATEGIES Semester Course Short Course Software ...
Directions to the Student Life Center Building Tour: Board of Trust Room Visitor Parking Map * Note: The red areas on this map indicate Visitor Parking
Archive from the 2 4 June 2003 Regression Modeling Strategies Short Courses * Final S Plus script * Corrected final S Plus script Main.FrankHarrell 01 Feb ...
Robert Alan Greevy, Jr, PhD Professor of Biostatistics Director of Biostatistics,Center for Health Services Research Office Address: 121A 11th floor 2525 West End ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Rod Little, PhD" AFFILIATION="Richard D. Remington Distinguished University Professor of BiostatisticsUniversity of Michigan" TITLE="Some Reflections ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Roger Peng, PhD" AFFILIATION="Professor Statistics and Data Sciences University of Texas, Austin" TITLE="Principles for Designing Complex Data ...
Anesthesiology Collaboration Project Rothma, Brain Background Information * PI: Rothma, Brain * Date: 02/20/2013 * Title: PAF vs GasChart End Times for ...
rreport Package rreport is an R package that produces statistical reports in LaTeX for clinical trials. It is especially useful for producing interim reports for ...
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SMUG: Somatic MUtation Gleaner URL of this page: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SMUG Program: SMUG.tgz. To uncompress, type tar zxf SMUG.tgz. Introduction Somatic ...
Comparison of cost efficiency of SNP chips Li C, Li M, Long J R, Cai Q, Zheng W (2008) Evaluating cost efficiency of SNP chips in genome wide association studies. ...
Coverage maps of SNP chips and their coverage variation across genome Genome wide association (GWA) studies rely on commercial SNP genotyping panels, for which a common ...
Department of Biostatistics Feedback and Communication Survey To assess the amount of feedback and communication one is receiving from their supervisor, a survey was ...
Section 1: Introduction to Statistical Concepts Instructor: Frank Harrell Statistical inference is the process of drawing general conclusions from specific studies ...
Section 4: Experimental Design and Analyzing Serial Measurements Instructor: This section introduces the principles of experimental design as applied to biomedical ...
Section 5: Measuring Effects and Quantifying Evidence in Biomedical Research Instructor: This section introduces commonly used measures of frequency and effect in ...
Section 2: Tools for Formal Statistical Inference Instructor: Tatsuki Koyama The statistical inferences needed to answer many of the scientific questions addressed ...
Section 3: Statistical Modeling Instructor: Lily Wang In many studies, multivariable statistical models are used to estimate an effect after controlling for a number ...
Subject selection for DNA sequencing experiments URL of this page: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SampleSeq SampleSeq: for targeted sequencing studies Program: ...
References from CSP 2021 presentation, "Solving Real World Problems, or Making Them Worse? The Collection and Analysis of Race Data" (Lauren Samuels) * Article ...
Files from Preventing Future Headaches: Reproducible Research Using Stata (Center for Health Services Research, 26 May 2020) (Lauren Samuels) To run the .txt files ...
Sarah A. Fletcher, BA Biostatistician I E mail: sarah.fletcher@vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.936.0328 Office: MCN D 2220 Medical Center North (MCN) Vanderbilt ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Sarah Lotspeich, PhD" AFFILIATION="Vanderbilt University School of Medicine" TITLE="Robust odds ratio estimation using error prone data: correcting ...
SAS Macros for Assisting with Survival and Risk Analysis, and Some SAS Procedures Useful for Multivariable Modeling Several unsupported SAS macros written by Harrell ...
SAS at VUMC At VUMC, the SAS suite is delivered to users using a central server. Licenses to run SAS installed on individual workstations are not available for a ...
SCC Analyses Email, digital folders, and physical folders have proven to be an inefficient long term solution for managing multiple analysis results for many datasets ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Scott Bruce, PhD" AFFILIATION=" Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Statistics Texas A M University" TITLE=" Interpretable Classification of Categorical ...
%HEAD{ NAME=" Sean L. Simpson, PhD" AFFILIATION=" Professor Department of Biostatistics and Data Science Wake Forest University" TITLE=" Regression Frameworks ...
Biostatistical Services Presentation The main goal of the Department of Biostatistics is to increase the quality and quantity of research in the School of Medicine ...
Shawn Garbett Assistant Faculty E mail: shawn.garbett at vumc.org Office: (615) 875 7481 Nickname: Garp About Me I graduated from Penn State in August ...
%HEAD{ NAME=" Shengxin Tu" AFFILIATION=" Ph.D. candidate in Biostatistics Vanderbilt University" TITLE=" Between and Within Cluster Spearman Rank Correlations ...
Some of My Causal Inference Papers Shepherd BE, Gilbert PB, Jemiai Y, Rotnitzky A (2006). Sensitivity analyses comparing outcomes only existing in a subset selected ...
Methods for Data Audits and Measurement Error I do a lot of research with observational HIV databases, where we are doing analyses with secondary use data (e.g., electronic ...
Ordinal Methods Motivated by a simple question we encountered in our collaborative research, Chun Li and I developed a new statistical method to test for association ...
Some Other Papers Shepherd BE (2008). The cost of checking proportional hazards. Statistics in Medicine 27: 1248 1260. paper; code Shepherd BE, Blevins M, Vaz LME ...
Shiny Presentation Notes Acknowledgements Much of this presentation comes from Getting started with ShinyApps.io and the Teach yourself Shiny tutorial. Using Shiny ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Shizhe Chen, PhD" AFFILIATION="Assistant Professor Department of Statistics, University of California Davis" TITLE="Semiparametric estimation for ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Shuangge “Steven” Ma, PhD" AFFILIATION=" Department Chair and Professor Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource Yale Institute ...
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%HEAD{ NAME="Siyuan Ma, PhD" AFFILIATION="University of Pennsylvania" TITLE="Modeling the Joint Distribution of Compositional Microbiome Data" IMAGELINK="https ...
We thank Angel for preparing this topic Summary of Angel's Presentation * SmallTalkTips.pdf Recommended Reading (the Books Angel Covered in her Presentation ...
Softball team shirt orders are due no later than August 26 at 4 pm. Please contact Seth with general questions regarding shirt orders, and contact Cole or Will with ...
Plot the odds ratios (ORs) for a specific covariate from different logistic regression models Perhaps you are interested in the effect of a specific covariate from ...
Quarterly Staff Meetings All meetings located in 3131 MRBIII unless otherwise noted. 2007 January 30 (10:00am) * Good News * Meeting Date and Time * Personnel ...
IGP 304: Statistics for Biomedical Research (Spring 2010) Instructors * Frank Harrell PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, Chairman, Dept. of Biostatistics ...
Final Exam OLD VERSION DO NOT USE * There were some problems reading this page for some people, possibly due to twiki access control problems * The current, ...
Final Exam Instructions * This exam is to be taken under conditions given by the Vanderbilt honor code. Do not ask for help for questions from anyone except the ...
Problem 1 Re express the following expressions. In one case the expression may become significantly more complex. 1 %$\log(ab(c d))$% 1 %$\frac{e^{ (x y)}} ...
Problem 1 170 plants (tulipa armena) were randomly sampled to examine the association between stem length and flower color. The following data were collected: ...
Homework 5 Problem 1 200 plants (tulipa armena) were randomly sampled to examine the association between stem length and flower color. The following data were collected ...
Mid term Exam Due 13Mar08 9am in S 2323 Medical Center North or e mailed to the grading assistant This exam is to be taken under conditions given by the Vanderbilt ...
IGP 304: Statistics for Biomedical Research (Spring 2008) Midterm Exam Results * Note (04/02/08): Since this course is being taught by two instructors, the ...
R Code and Examples from Class Introduction R is an powerful statistics package that is also capable of creating publication quality graphics. The experienced user ...
Statistical Reporting, Linking S Output with Report Documents, Literate Programming, Managing Analyses, and Documenting Programs and Data Reproducible Research ...
The Statistical Computing Series The Statistical Computing Series is a monthly event for learning various aspects of modern statistical computing from practitioners ...
Xi (Steven) Chen Associate Professor of Biostatistics Division of Cancer BiostatisticsDepartment of BiostatisticsVanderbilt University School of Medicine549 Preston ...
Vanderbilt Grants Advantage (VGA) A Proposal for Maximizing Grant Funding in the School of Medicine Future Ideas Two of the most important goals of the Department ...
An alternative to 'dynamite plots' (i.e., a bar depicting the mean, with a line depicting the standard deviation or error) We've all seen various examples of 'dynamite ...
Medical and nursing students' intentions to work abroad or in rural areas: a cross sectional survey in Asia and Africa Silvestri DM, Blevins MB, Afzal AR, Andrews ...
Subversion Post commit Script This is a fake user used by the commit twiki subversion script to update TWiki pages with log entries. TWiki pages that use this script ...
Main.AyumiShintani 08 Apr 2010 Supervisory and Mentoring skill improvement committee meeting minutes List of Supervisory Efforts as of April 2010 By mentors By ...
SUPPORT Datasets Datasets Archived at ICPSR The support dataset is a random sample of 1000 patients from Phases I II of SUPPORT (Study to Understand Prognoses ...
Svetlana K. Eden, MS Biostatistician III /Svetlana.JPG E mail: svetlana.eden@vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.343.7014 Fax: 615.343.4924 Vanderbilt University School ...
Examples of using chron() and as.Data() Introduction to String Matching and Manipulation in R using Regular Expressions (regExprTalk.pdf) About efficiency of R loops ...
Converting Documents Produced by Sweave and knitr Converting from LaTeX to html The recommended format for statistical reports to send to collaborators is pdf produced ...
Sweave knitr and LaTeX Introduction and Helpful Templates: The following will help you start to learn and use knitr Sweave and LaTeX: * rlatex GitHub project: ...
Sweave and knitr Templates NOTE: SUPERCEDED by knitr and LaTeX Styles knitrl and spaper; See GitHub rlatex Project Using LaTeX Style Sweavel /template3.pdf ...
TDT2locus: An R program for two locus TDT analysis URL of this page: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/TDT2locus This program has two functions. The function readin ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Shedding Light on StarBRITE Resources including the Synthetic Derivative Introduction:Paul A. Harris, PhD, Resarch ...
Browser Plugins for our TWiki Jump To Topic This is a search plugin that lets you jump to a TWiki topic from the Firefox/IE7 search bar. If you're using Firefox ...
%HEAD{ NAME=" Tanya Garcia, PhD " AFFILIATION=" Associate Professor of Biostatistics Gillings School of Public Health UNC Chapel Hill " TITLE=" Mission Imputable ...
Tatsuki Koyama, PhD Professor of BiostatisticsCenter for Quantitative Sciences and Department of BiostatisticsVanderbilt University Medical CenterVanderbilt University ...
R code for tplot, kmplot and other functions. * RFunctions1.R: RFunctions1.R R code for other miscellaneous functions. * RFunctions2.R: RFunctions2.R R code ...
Tebeb Gebretsadik, MPH Associate in Biostatistics E mail: tebeb.gebretsadik@vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.322.8630 Fax: 615.343.4924Vanderbilt University School ...
Theodore Speroff, Ph.D. Research Associate Professor of Biostatistics E mail: ted.speroff@vanderbilt.edu Website: Vanderbilt School of MedicineVA Tennessee Valley ...
Theresa Scott's Teaching Material An Introduction to the Fundamentals Functionality of the R Programming Language * Scott.IntroToR.I.pdf: Part I: An Overview ...
Incorporate the third contrast of a three level categorical predictor into the odds ratio summary plot of a logistic regression model In any regression model, by default ...
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Notes on using Thunderbird email client with the Vanderbilt Medical Center's Exchange Server email server * The only client program that works directly with the ...
Clinical and Health Research Clinic Click here for 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, and before. Current Notes (2024) 2024 April 25 Makayla ...
Clinical and Health Research Clinic Notes (2023) 2023 December 7 Tara Helmer, VICTR We are working with a PI who wants to use My Health at Vanderbilt to recruit ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Tingting Zhang, PhD" AFFILIATION="Professor of Statistics University of Pittsburgh" TITLE="Analyzing Functional Brain Network Changes from Childhood ...
Omics Data Clinic Notes and Analyses 2024 March 26 Neil Dani, Cell and Developmental Biology We are interested in characterizing the neurodegenerative processes ...
ESS tutorial UseR! 2012 Richard M Heiberger Martin Mächler June 12, 2012 List of useful Web resources ("Links") * Emacs Wiki * ESS Homepage (the ESS manual ...
Outline for Linux Workshop January 26, 2005 January 25, 2006 January 30, 2008 Note that the 2007 version of this workshop can be found at MoreTwikiWorkShop. ...
Proper inference from Simon's two stage designs by Tatsuki Koyama There are many software available for constructing a Simon's design. These software usually ...
Making Inference from a Simon's Two stage Design in Phase II Clinical Trials by Tatsuki Koyama Introduction Background Technical Details Pvalue Confidence Interval ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Tyler J. VanderWeele, PhD" AFFILIATION=" John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics ...
Ubuntu laptop wireless configuration Please see About the VU Wireless Network and Wireless Access for Students, Faculty and Staff for instructions. As of October ...
Setup for Ubuntu 11.10 (and up) NOTE This procedure has been superseded by Main.UbuntuSetup20. Click here for Windows system setup Re installation Note If you ...
How to set up wifi for Ubuntu 13.10 so that it works with our wireless networking environment See Wireless Access for Students, Faculty and Staff for the official ...
Brainstorming Design of the First Biostatistics/General Applied Statistics Undergraduate Course at Vanderbilt Winning Choice at 2015 12 02 Faculty Meeting: Introduction ...
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Using Sage for math This page is about the open source math software (http://www.sagemath.org), NOT Sage Publications or the SAGE Visualization group. Download/installation ...
* Main.KristenKotter 20 Jul 2009 * log of some relevant Kristen Kotter POEM and other related VA Work with completion dates Actionable Items and date assigned ...
VA and nonVA Health Services Research Note this page and related pages are in need of an overhaul. The wiki group is at VaHsrGroup. To be added, please contact Robert ...
IRBNet * https://www.irbnet.org * The VA IRB website is the primary certificates repository. Storing copies there is required. Storing copies here is not necessary ...
VA WOC Paperwork For those joining the VA for the first time, the following attachments are the initial paperwork for getting WOC status at the VA. The WOC (without ...
NOTE Windows users getting "does not appear to be a valid archive" message can download the winrar archiver from http://www.rarlab.com to uncompress the .zip file ...
Video Learning The Department of Biostatistics is happy to provide you a platform for learning biostatistics via online video lectures. These videos were created on ...
Viking's Notes Screen To change the escape sequence from C a to `, add this to your .screenrc: escape `` Kubuntu on MacBook Helpful Tutorial https://help.ubuntu ...
Viking's Ruby Snippets Here's some Ruby snippets I've written or found. Some of these are here to help me remember how to do certain things, and others are here for ...
Vincent Agboto, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biostatistics E mail: vagboto@mmc.edu Website: Meharry Medical CollegeMeharry Medical CollegeFamily and Community ...
Warren R. Dunn, MD, MPH Assitant Professor of Orthopaedics Rehabilitation Assitant Professor of General Internal Medicine Public Heal Phone: 615.322.7878 Fax ...
Materials for William Dupont Important Components of ASA Nomination Guidelines for Letters of Support Full ASA Guidelines * Letters of support are generally ...
Web Visualization User Manual The following sections hope to provide enough information to setup a user new to our web visualization tools for accessing his data ...
Surgery, anesthesiology, and emergency and critical care medicine The Biostatistics Clinic on Wednesdays is dedicated to biostatistics applications in surgery, anesthesiology ...
Surgery, anesthesiology, and emergency and critical care medicine Notes (2023) 2023 November 16 Becca Omosigho (Elisabeth Sebesta), Urology I submitted a VICTR ...
Wei Wang, MS, PhD Biostatistician II E mail: wei.wang.3 #64;vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.322.7304 Fax: 615.343.4924 Vanderbilt University School of MedicineDepartment ...
WFCCM 2 How To Step by step Step 1: Loading the Data and Information Sets * Go to "File Add a Data Set" to add the given data * The name of the Data ...
* Version 1.0.00 dd mmm yyyy: Public release. Score generation and distance complete. For instructions, please refer to the guide. If you can not run the project, ...
Kolmogorov Smirnov Algorithm Computes the difference of the distributions of two empirical observation sets. K S Statistic 1 %$N_1$% is the size of group 1 ...
SAM Algorithm The data is %$x_{ij}$%, i = 1, 2, ... p genes, j = 1, 2, ... n samples, and response data %$y_j$%, j = 1,2, ... n (%$y_j$% may be a vector). Generic ...
TTest Algorithm Performed on a set of non negative numbers and labels of size N. There must be two specific labels. Label 1 must be 1 and label 2 must be 2. There ...
WGA Algorithm WGA = \begin{displaymath} \frac{d_b}{k_1d_{1} k_2d_{2} \alpha} \end{displaymath} * description of letters * %$n_i$% is the total number of ...
Wilcoxon Algorithm Performed on a set of numbers and labels of size N. There must be two specific labels. Label 1 must be 1 and label 2 must be 2. There can also be ...
Data Quality Control Design Goals * Ability to generate ICC Kappa value, Agreement rate, and Correlation values based on a data set. * Ability to generate ...
The following are the guidelines for submitting data for analysis. These guidelines are established to make the process better for both sides. Following the guidelines ...
Data Tool and Visualization Detailed Time Line and Tasks Specification Apr 18 Apr 22 1 week 1. Determine interface requriments. 1. Determine output requriments ...
* Version 1.14 2004 07 13 Built to use a static library. * Version 1.13 2004 04 14 User interface changes by Joan Zhang. * Version 1.12 2004 03 12 Fixed ...
Multidimensional Scaling Design: Detailed Time Line and Tasks Specification Apr 18 May 27 6 weeks 1. Determine algorithm(s) to aquire 3D data. 1. Determine ...
Kappa Value and Agreement Rate algorithms * 1. For each gene/feature, convert their are values to binary * new value(proteinomic data) = 1 if old value is ...
Pearson Correlation Coefficient Suppose that we have 2 samples/columns, X and Y. N features from feature1 to featureN. The test statistics is computed as : denominator1 ...
This is the code used to for the analyses in the manuscript "Estimating the optimal CD4 count for HIV infected persons to start antiretroviral therapy." No data files ...
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Wiki Usage Guidelines and Maintenance View a Wiki presentation by Cole Beck: VIDEO The wiki Philosophy The wiki philosophy is based on * Facilitating collaborations ...
Foswiki or TWiki? Foswiki is a fork of the TWiki software. If you want to know why the fork was created, read this. It was in our best interest to switch because ...
/will australia1.jpg Will Gray Principal Application Developer Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences 2525 West End Avenue, Suite 1000 Nashville, TN 37203 ...
William D. Dupont, Ph.D., F.A.S.A. Professor of Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine and Health Policy Email: william.dupont #64;vumc.org Phone: (615) 343 4100 Fax ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Introduction to Marginal Structural Models William D. Dupont, PhD Professor, Departments of Biostatistics and ...
Huiyun (William) Wu, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor of Biostatistics E mail: huiyun.wu #64;vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.936.2788 Fax: 615.936.2602 Vanderbilt ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Wodan Ling, PhD" AFFILIATION="Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center" TITLE="Statistical Analysis of Large Scale Microbiome Profiling Studies: Batch ...
Working Remotely Here is a list of links as referenced by the How to work remotely seminar. Communication * Vanderbilt web mail * Third party e mail client ...
Writing Extensions in R A small tutorial for writing extensions in R. Integrating R with External Languages You can write extensions for R in FORTRAN or C to help ...
Wu Gong Senior Biostatistician Wu.Gong@vumc.org Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics 2525 West End Ste. 11113F Nashville, TN 37203 ...
Xue Han, M.P.H. M.S. Biostatistician III E mail: xue.han@vanderbilt.eduPhone: (615) 322 2270Fax: (615) 343 4924 Vanderbilt University School of MedicineDepartment ...
Xulei (Shirley) Liu Biostatistician IV E mail: xulei.liu@vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.322.9362Fax: 615.343.4924 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Department ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Yang Feng, PhD" AFFILIATION=" Associate Professor of BiostatisticsSchool of Global Public Health New York University " TITLE=" Robust Unsupervised ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Yang Yang, PhD" AFFILIATION="Professor Department of Statistics Franklin College of Arts and SciencesUniversity of Georgia" TITLE="Statistical challenges ...
Yanna Song, MS Biostatistician III E mail: yanna.song@vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.343.0209 Vanderbilt University School of MedicineDepartment of BiostatisticsD ...
My R Functions * RandomAssignment.r: Generate randomization schedules based on permuted blocks of varying sizes * magchisq.r: Chisq test for a two by two table ...
Yaomin Xu, PhD Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics E mail: yaomin.xu #64;vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615 936 8199 Vanderbilt ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Yi Zhao, PhD" AFFILIATION=" Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Biostatistics and Health Data Science Indiana University School of Medicine" TITLE= ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Yichen Jia, PhD" AFFILIATION="University of Pittsburgh" TITLE="New Model based and Deep Learning Methods for Survival Data" IMAGELINK="https:/ ...
%HEAD{ NAME=" Yidan Shi, PhD" AFFILIATION=" Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics University of Pennsylvania, Perelman ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Ying Ding, PhD" AFFILIATION="Associate Dean for Graduate Academic Affairs School of Public Health Associate Professor and Director of Ph.D. Graduate ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Yong Chen, PhD " AFFILIATION="Professor of Biostatistics and the Founding Director of the Center for Health Analytics and Synthesis of Evidence (CHASE ...
Materials for Yu Shyr Important Components of ASA Nomination Guidelines for Letters of Support ASA Fellows Home Page * Letters of support are generally the ...
Yu Shyr, PhD, Dr(hc), FASA, FAAAS, FAACR Harold L. Moses Chair in Cancer Research Chair, Department of Biostatistics Director, Center for Quantitative Sciences ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Yuan Ji, PhD" AFFILIATION="Professor of Biostatistics University of Chicago" TITLE="PAM HC:A Bayesian Nonparametric Construction of Hybrid Control ...
%HEAD{ NAME=" Yuan Zhang, PhD" AFFILIATION="Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics University of Pennsylvania" TITLE=" Dynamic risk assessment ...
Yuwei Zhu, M.D., M.S. Senior Associate in Biostatistics E mail: yuwei.zhu@vumc.org Phone: 615.343.4750 Fax: 615.343.4924 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine ...
Note : ZhengZheng (Jane) Tang is no longer with the department. This topic is left here to avoid bad links elsewhere. ZhengZheng (Jane) Tang, PhD Assistant ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Ziv Bar Joseph, PhD" AFFILIATION=" FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science Computational Biology Department Machine Learning Department School ...