2004 Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series December * Mass Spectrometry Data Processing Using Mathematical Tools and Statistical Techniques, by Don Hong, Visiting ...
2007 Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series December * Winter Holidays No Workshop on December 26 * Special Thursday Seminar On the Voronoi Estimator for ...
2013 December * December 25 NO SEMINAR * December 18 NO SEMINAR * December 11 NO SEMINAR * December 4 Advantages of Transformation in Constrained Parameter ...
2014 December * December 3 R Package Development with GitHub by Cole Beck November * November 19 Using Shiny to Build Web Applications by Dale Plummer ...
Regression Modeling Strategies Short Course 2014 #AboutAnch About the Course Four Session Short Course for Regression Modeling Strategies by Frank E. Harrell, Jr ...
Regression Modeling Strategies Short Course 2015 #AboutAnch About the Course Four Session Short Course for Regression Modeling Strategies by Frank E. Harrell, Jr ...
Regression Modeling Strategies Short Course 2016 About the Course Four Session Short Course for Regression Modeling Strategies by Frank E. Harrell, Jr., Ph.D., Professor ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 28 Mar 2014 Active Surveillance Project Questions: * In PCOS data, is there a systematic difference in patients who have complete staging info ...
Administrative Assistant II Grant Support * Biosketches * Other Support coordination Department Training and Compliance assurance for staff * Ensure staff ...
Administrative Assistant II STAFF HUMAN RESOURCES, TRAVEL and EVENT PLANNING Staff Human Resources * Staff recruitment * Coordinate advertisement Human Resources ...
New Staff Process/Procedures * Department Administrator will contact HR consultant re new position, then request preparation of PDQ or PDQ (EZ) for posting of ...
Administrative Team Strategies 1 Ensure effective communication among all team members * Everyone is responsible for effective communication; each member ...
Statisctical Terms Click on the link to here the pronunciation * hypothesis: http://cougar.eb.com/sound/h/hypoth10.wav * hypothetical: http://cougar.eb.com ...
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 ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Advantages of Transformation in Constrained Parameter Problems Anindya Roy, PhD Professor, Department of Mathematics ...
Approximate String Matching Here is a collection of algorithms that can be used to compare strings. String metrics Levenshtein edit distance Using the basic operations ...
ARI Dataset These are the datasets analyzed in Chapter 14 of Regression Modeling Strategies and in . The main dataset is ari, and a file ari_other.sav contains the ...
Middle Tennessee Chapter of the American Statistical Association November, 2009 Date and Time:11/12/09 4:30 7:00 Location: 8th Floor 2525 West End, Nashville Meeting ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Evaluation of Methods for Survival Analysis in the Presence of Extremely Few Events Per Variable Austin Lanser ...
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 ...
Recommendations, Analyses, and Data for Biostatistics Basic and Animal Research Clinic Archive Current Notes 22 Nov 2013 Alexia Melo, Eischen Laboratory * My ...
General Handouts and Reference Material on Biostatistical Modeling * Syllabus from a course on Biostatistical Modeling (updated 9Jan03; click here for a pdf file ...
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 ...
In Class Examples Using Stata Tom Stewart, 2022 #LionAgeNose The lion's nose, ABD example 17.1, page 541 Dataset: 17 e 1 N observations: 32 male lions Response: Age ...
Biostatistics Research This page contains some information for investigators who are planning to submit a grant proposal to the NIH. See also https://www.vumc.org ...
Biostatistician Responsibilities Requirements for Statistical Reports All statistical reports produced by biostatisticians must be reproducible in that the report ...
Block Randomization with Random Block Sizes The following code illustrates how to generate the randomization treatment assignments for a randomized clinical trial ...
Bootstrapping the Proportional Hazards Check The following R function fits a Cox proportional hazards (PH) model, checks the PH assumption (using Schoenfeld residuals ...
BRAIN ICU Bringing to light Risk factors and Incidence of Neuropsychological dysfunction in ICU survivors http://icudelirium.org/delirium/ On a test server, we have ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Disk Diffusion Breakpoint Determination Using an Errors in Variables Model Approach Bruce A. Craig, PhD Professor ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Sleep Hypnograms, Insurance Claims, Hand Movement After Stroke: Big Data and Potentially Many Weak, Predictive ...
D. Personnel Faculty and staff biostatistics in the Design, Biostatistics, and Clinical Research Ethics Program who will be devoted to VICTR represent a broad spectrum ...
Evaluation of Biostatistical Components of Projects Evaluation of Statistical Plans in Study Proposals Rate on a 1 5 scale the biostatistical plan in the following ...
VICTR CTSA Ethics and Biostatistics Group Meetings 2014 Aug 19 Churchill, Harrell, Byrne Discussed two research ethics cases: * Deep brain stimulation * Cluster ...
caBIG Review caBIG (cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid) is a network for cancer researchers to share information. It is an open source project developed by the National ...
Cathy Jenkins Biostatistician IV E mail: cathy.jenkins@vumc.org Phone: 615.322.9068 Fax: 615.343.4924 Vanderbilt University School of MedicineDepartment ...
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 ...
Ceasar Aim 2: What patient factors modify the effect of tx on function? Study questions/goals Main patient factors of interest are race and socioeconomic status: ...
Radiation Therapy in the CEASAR cohort There are several research inquiries falling under XRT in CEASAR. Karen Hoffman is the senior author, and Daniel Lee has been ...
Title: Continuing Education for Masters Biostatisticians Third Thursday of the month. Participants: Tebeb Gebretsadik, William Wu Brief description: The objective ...
Investigator: Chad Johnson, Beachaump Lab Description: 16 treatment pairs, pre and 7 days post treatment with Celebrex. Comparison of gene expression levels between ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 09 Nov 2012 Vanderbilt Center for Surgical Quality Outcomes Research Projects on their own page * CeasarData * CeasarProjTxVars * CeasarProject ...
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 ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Comparison of internal validation methods on the procedure of constructing a survival prediction model for proteomic ...
Chris (James C.) Slaughter, DrPH Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics 2525 West End Avenue, Suite 11000 Nashville, TN 37203 1738 james ...
Please contact Chun Li (chun.li #64;vanderbilt.edu) if you have any questions. Data for papers Supplementary figure and data for Li M, Li C, Guan W (2007) Coverage ...
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 ...
Validation of Discoveries and Validation of the Predictive Performance of Clinical Models Note: On 1Nov04, Steve Goodman, statistical editor of the Annals of Internal ...
Lecture 1: Introduction Key Concepts 1 Biostatistics is the application of statistical methods to biological research including laboratory experiments, medical ...
Biostatistics for Clinical Pharmacology Fellows Instructors: Chris Slaughter and Frank Harrell Course page: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/ClinStat Course Goals ...
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 ...
Data and Analysis for Clinical and Health Research Clinic Archive Current Notes 2013 Dec 19 Bennett Spetalnick, Tara A.Nielsen, OB/GYN * Retrospective study ...
Questions: * Will the days of the week still have themed topics? For example, currently Wednesday is for surgery and emergency medicine. * Yes but we'll have ...
Departments of Biomedical Informatics Biostatistics Present Omics Data Clinic Notes and Analyses Journal Club Design and Analysis of Experiments Involving ...
ClinicalSultan Name Ideas ClinicalSultan needs a new name! We want to make ClinicalSultan an all purpose data capture tool, not just for clinical trials. So, a new ...
The following code was used for the manuscript "Sensitivity analyses comparing time to event outcomes only existing in a subset selected postrandomization and relaxing ...
Cognitive Impairment in Trauma Patients Without Closed Head Injury Personnel William Todd Obremskey, MD, MPH Orthopaedic Trauma Principal Investigator Wes Ely ...
Biostatistics Collaboration Plan Anesthesiology Ongoing studies Completed studies Grant Proposals Dormant Studies Monthly Updates Education Other Department ...
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 ...
Completed IT Tasks As the ComputingTodo list gets too long we will move some of the completed tasks here. * Develop plan to bring up new server * Bring up new ...
Input data * PRDRUG (SAS) data (CRF page 3) represent NSAIDS/selenium/vitamin E that were taken within 12 months prior to visit 1 but stopped prior to visit 1 ...
Continuing Education and Skills Development to Document for Annual Evaluations The following template is intended to be used primarily by staff biostatisticians on ...
Biostatistics Seminars Attended I didn't record this unitl 12 Mar 2012 when informed to keep the attendance records. 1 14 Mar 2012: Theory and application of statistical ...
*NOTE*: This page is superseded by https://hbiostat.org/rms/full BIOS 330: Regression Modeling Strategies Frank E. Harrell, Jr. f.harrell@vanderbilt.edu Professor ...
BIOS 330 Concepts to Master 1 Assumptions of linear additive models 1 Methods for checking these assumptions. 1 Global vs. partial tests of association ...
BIOS 330 Syllabus Numbers to the right of topics indicate sequential lecture numbers. Hn stands for Harrell Chapter n in the book's second edition. Ln stands for ...
BIOS 345: Advanced Regression Analysis I (Linear Models and Generalized Linear Models) Instructor * Hakmook Kang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics ...
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 ...
Prediction Error in Cox Models Varying Number of Predictors This program runs Cox fits of simulated data with exponential survival and 1 30 covariables. Each covariable ...
dbconnect suggestions A space for feedback, offering suggestions, and reporting bugs. Dbconnect April and early May 2007 feedback 1 Cindy's problem: If doing an ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Nonparametric Bayes local hierarchical models for biomedical data David B. Dunson, PhD Professor, Department ...
Reproducibility and Repeatability Reproducibility Reproducibility is the ability of an entire experiment or study to be duplicated, either by the same researcher ...
General Data Analysis Discussion Board Discussions related to Rafe Donahue's 11Oct06 seminar in the Department FrankHarrell's comments Rafe's excellent seminar yesterday ...
Data Protection Recommendations and Resources Department of Biostatistics Data Security Policy Introduction Given the high risk of information exposure, specific ...
NOTE This page is obsolete. Instead use https://hbiostat.org/data Datasets Most of the datasets on this page are in the S dumpdata and R compressed save() file ...
%HEAD{ NAME=" Dehan Kong, PhD" AFFILIATION=" Associate Professor in statistics University of Toronto" TITLE=" Fighting Noise with Noise: Causal Inference with Many ...
Advantages to Having Biostatisticians Based in a Central Department 1 Better results, better science: Rapid evolution of basic, translational, and clinical research ...
As part of our effort to continuously improve communication within the department, we are posting this update. There will be a similar posting each month following ...
Good news! * Papers. Cindy Chen has had a paper accepted for publication in Biometrika. * Grants. Cindy Chen and Leena Choi have submitted R21 grant applications ...
Good News Jonathan received the NOGA for his R01 entitled, “Outcome dependent sampling studies of longitudinal data: design and analysis.” Cindy has had an article ...
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 ...
Useful Links Relating to EBM Literature Reviews * Audit, Clinical Governance Evidence Based Medicine Resources http://www.herts.ac.uk/lis/subjects/health/ebm ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Promoting Ethical Research Through Regulation: Where Did All of These Policies Come From? Elizabeth Heitman, ...
Electrophysiological Data Analysis OctavioRuiz 11 Nov 2004 We record action potentials ("spikes") from awake animals. Each spike signals the firing of a neuron ...
Education Teaching Methods * Biostatistics graduate program and individual course pages * Masters of Public Health Program and its Biostatistics Courses ...
Elizabeth Koehler, MS Contact Info * Email: e.koehler #64;vanderbilt.edu * Phone: 322 7193 Education * University of Washington MS in Biostatistics, ...
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 ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Online estimation of optimal treatment allocations for control of an emerging infectious disease Eric B. Laber ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Theory and application of statistical methods for causal mediation analysis Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD Associate ...
Example Setup for Seminar Style Slides/Handouts %Usage: pdflatex foo % kprinter foo.pdf, print to pdf, 2 up for handouts \documentclass semhelv,semcolor,portrait ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Towards a More Rigorous Approach to Personalized Medicine Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair, Department ...
* Good News People * Faculty promotion: Ming Li * Faculty and Staff recruitment * AMSTAT News and UFL web site advertising (Fac/staff, BCC mgr and Division ...
Faculty Retreat 2015 11 13Department of Biostatistics2525 West End Avenue Archive Used during retreat: https://public.etherpad mozilla.org/p/VbiostatRetreat Vision ...
Fall Harvest Party Picnic/Potluck Saturday, October 30th; 3:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m.; Centennial Park Pavilion (behind McDonalds on West End) Centennial Park Pavilion ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Fei Ye, PhD" AFFILIATION="Vanderbilt University School of Medicine" TITLE="Genomewide analysis of DNA methylation patterns associated with breast ...
##### This files contains the code used in Shepherd, Redman, and Ankerst (2008). We are not able to provide the complete Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial Database ...
Recommendations for User Workstation Directory and E mail Folder Structure See also this It is important to organize your work in a very hierarchical tree so that ...
File Format Policies When sharing files with others or attaching files to e mails, the department has the following preferences. 1 When you need to convey simple ...
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 Using R, Rmarkdown, RStudio, knitr, and HTML for the Next Generation of Reproducible Statistical Reports Frank ...
Semiparametric Ordinal Regression Models for Continuous Y: Are Linear Models Obsolete? Semiparametric ordinal regression models such as the proportional odds and proportional ...
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 ...
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 ...
Recommendations, Analyses, and Data for Health Services Research, Diagnosis, and Prognosis Clinic Archive Current Notes 23Dec13 Heidi Silver, Director, Vanderbilt ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Personalized Dose Finding Using Outcome Weighted Learning Guanhua Chen Research Assistant, Department of Biostatistics ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series A Bayesian Double Fusion Spatio Temporal Model for Resting State Brain Connectivity Using Joing Functional And ...
Review of Paul Harris' System Goal Be able to implement data management tools for a wide variety of studies, and to build a toolset that uses best security practices ...
Later Review of Paul Harris' System General impressions We met with Paul Harris on August 23,2005 to have another look at his tools set. It has matured in the year ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Problems in Non Stationary Multivariate Time Series with Applications in Brain Signals Hernando Ombao, PhD Professor ...
Hints and Help for Using Foswiki WikiUsage * Using Xemacs to edit web pages * A template for setting up your user page When you register, a template user ...
Housing for guests attending Short Courses Vanderbilt has a specific web page that lists local hotels and negotiated rates for visitors to VUMC. Please follow this ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Hsin Chou Yang PhD" AFFILIATION="Research Fellow Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica" TITLE="AI Enhanced Integration of Genetic and ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Hsin Chou Yang PhD" AFFILIATION="Research Fellow Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica" TITLE="AI Enhanced Integration of Genetic and ...
Basic Research IT Infrastructure Support Needs * Network * Stability, especially e mail servers * Medical Center Exchange servers are losing emails ...
Department of Biostatistics IT Team Skills and Experience The Department of Biostatistics boasts a strong IT support team consisting of 7 programmers and analysts ...
Check out the following link recommended by Peggy Schuyler, if the article is not there see the text below: http://msn.careerbuilder.com/custom/msn/careeradvice/viewarticle ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Jing Wang, PhD" AFFILIATION="Vanderbilt University School of Medicine" TITLE="Interpretation of regulatory variants towards deciphering of disease ...
Chun's course blog Beginning words: Blogging is totally new to me. I try to experiment this so that I can help you understand the course and statistics in general ...
Homework 2 (due on Monday, February 6) Please note: * Problems will be added until the last class before the due date. * No electronic submission unless explicitly ...
Statistics for Biomedical Research Discussion Board Go to WelcomeGuest to learn about twiki. You will see a place to click to go to the TWikiRegistration page to ...
Introduction to Statistics Using R Homework 1 1. a) Read the file attitude.dat using read.table. Download file attitude.dat. b) The " 99" values denote missing ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Bayesian trial monitoring: Separating the baby from the bathwater John Kittelson, PhD Associate Professor, Department ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Ideal vs. Real in Handling Potential Confounders in (Cluster ) Randomized Controlled Trials Jody D. Ciolino, PhD ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Health Care Reform and the Dynamics of Uninsurance: Evidence from Massachusetts John A. Graves, PhD Assistant ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series When Death was Not the Outcome of Interest: Communicating a match between longitudinal data analysis methods ...
July 13, 2010 (MRBIII, Room 1220 2:00PM) Good News * BINGO! * Winners Marcia and Alex * Linda returning home * Cindy Chen's R21 receives a very high ...
Welcome to the Department of Biostatistics! Here are some useful resources for you to learn about R, Sweave/LaTeX, longitudinal data analysis, survival analysis and ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series A Powerful Association Test of Rare Variants Using a Random Effects Model Kuang Fu Cheng Professor and Director ...
Lauren (Laurie) Samuels, PhD, MEd Research Assistant Professor Office: 2525 West End Avenue, #1135 (inside suite 1130) Email: lauren.samuels@vanderbilt.edu Phone ...
Learning Open Office * (announcements?) * (suggestions for future LinuxWorkshops?) * (welcome, buzzword bingo and fabulous prize) For a long time, we have ...
Li Wang Biostatistician III E mail: li.wang@vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.343.8654 Fax: 615.343.4924 Office: 11138 H Vanderbilt University School of MedicineDepartment ...
Software in the Hmisc and Design libraries is Copyright (C) 1991 2004 by Frank E Harrell Jr This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under ...
R Programing Gotchas R Gotchas R has several 'features' that can trip up those who are not aware of them. Non Value Values. R contains several values are specially ...
Linux Quick Reference (inspired by Unix Quick Reference from my alma mater) This is a quick reference of commands you can use with the Linux shell. The command will ...
littler Project littler is a command line UNIX program that provides hash bang (#!) capability for the R Project. Latest Release Source: littler 0.1.1.tar.gz MD5 ...
NOTE: The new home for this checklist is https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/author checklist and the material below is out of date. The biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu ...
Reweighted Mahalanobis Distance Matching in Observational Studies and Randomized Trials Matched Randomization R Package nbpMatching The current version of the R package ...
nbpMatching Demo: Matching In An Observational Study The following tutorial shows the R code to create matched sets using the package nbpMatching, an R package that ...
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 ...
The PRDRUG data (CRF page 3) represent NSAIDS/selenium/vitamin E that were taken within 12 months prior to visit 1 but stopped prior to visit 1; the DRUG data represents ...
Meeting Ground Rules Purpose: To ensure productive meetings and most effective use of time. 1 We believe it is important to start and end on time (latecomers ...
Demonstration and Review of Metaclinic System Basis Software Oracle, Apache, mod_perl (increases speed by maintaining Perl and metadata in memory), Javascript Features ...
Recommendations, Analyses, and Data for Health Services Research, Diagnosis, and Prognosis Clinic Notes 2014 2014 Dec 15 Amos M. Sakwe, Department of Biochemistry ...
Recommendations, Analyses, and Data for Health Services Research, Diagnosis, and Prognosis Clinic Notes 2015 2015 Dec 14 Sachin Patel, Psychiatry * Animal model ...
Recommendations, Analyses, and Data for Health Services Research, Diagnosis, and Prognosis Clinic Notes 2016 2016 12 19 Angela Maxwell Horn, MD, Assistant Professor ...
Recommendations, Analyses, and Data for Health Services Research, Diagnosis, and Prognosis Clinic Notes 2017 2017 11 13 Claire, Lo. Medical student. I have data ...
Recommendations, Analyses, and Data for Health Services Research, Diagnosis, and Prognosis Clinic Notes 2018 2018 12 17 Shawniqua Williams Roberson, Neurology ...
Recommendations, Analyses, and Data for Health Services Research, Diagnosis, and Prognosis Clinic Notes 2019 2019 12 16 Ronnie Beaulieu, Infectious Diseases ...
Recommendations, Analyses, and Data for Health Services Research, Diagnosis, and Prognosis Clinic Notes 2020 2020 12 14 Santiago Angaramo (Dolly Padovani Claudio ...
Recommendations, Analyses, and Data for Health Services Research, Diagnosis, and Prognosis Clinic Notes 2021 2021 November 29 Megan Lancaster (Dan Roden), Cardiology ...
Health services research, diagnosis, and prognosis Notes (2022) 2022 December 12 Paras Karmacharya (Leslie J. Crofford), Rheumatology Determine the associations ...
Health services research, diagnosis, and prognosis Notes (2023) 2023 December 11 Megan Passarelle Thu Can (Sarah Welch), Acute Rehabilitation We are studying ...
Biostatistics II Concepts to Understand * Advantages of regression modeling over stratification and matching * Variety of purposes of regression models ...
MSCI Biostatistics II Course Schedule February 2024 ul{ margin: 0; } Key: A = Whitlock and Schluter (text) B = Biostatistics for Biomedical Research (handout) ...
Biostatistics II Syllabus Hn stands for Harrell Chapter n in the book's second edition. Bn stands for section n in Biostatistics for Biomedical Research notes by Harrell ...
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 ...
National Neurosurgery Quality and Outcomes Database Outcomes Modeling Meeting Aug 21, 2012 Endpoints * Outcomes * VAS Back Pain, VAS Leg Pain * ODI ...
Code Updates for Regression Modeling Strategies First Edition Problems at end of Chapter 7, p. 144 Replace code in (c) with the following require(rms) getHdata(support ...
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 ...
Responsibilities for transition to Office Assistant (II or III) Diane 1 Errand running (OFA, post office, etc.) 1 Print jobs (FH sometimes has documents he ...
Omics Data Clinic Notes and Analyses 2023 December 12 Nicole Malofsky, Biomedical Engineering Determining TB bacteria drug susceptibility is essential to match TB ...
Demonstration and Review of PercipEnz Oncore System Interspersed are some responses (marked DM) from David DeMets, and Sorena Nadaf (marked SN), key personnel involved ...
Comparison of recovery in open and robotic cystectomy * Single institutional, prospective, non randomized cohort study comparing HRQOL and postoperative nutritional ...
COBOT: Conditional Ordinal By Ordinal Test URL of this page: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/OrdinalRegression We developed a method for testing for association ...
PS: Power and Sample Size Release Notes PS is an interactive program for performing power and sample size calculations. The program runs on the Windows operating systems ...
2017 Short course in Regression Modleing Strategies 2016 Short course in Regression Modeling Strategies 2015 Short course in Regression Modeling Strategies 2014 ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Patrick Heagerty, PhD" AFFILIATION="University of Washington" TITLE="Evidence based analysis of longitudinal data from randomized clinical trials ...
Main.BenSaville 06 Nov 2009 Dept. of Pediatrics Collaborations, Ben Saville, Ph.D., Meng Xu, M.S. This page documents the activity of the collaboration plan between ...
Main.BenSaville 06 Nov 2009 Actionable Items * Jackie Shopluck: additional analysis for Dex paper * John Soslow: manuscript review for TOF paper * Charles ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Peg Duthie (she/her)" AFFILIATION="Communications Manager Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University Medical Center" TITLE="Drawing Attention ...
Flood May 2010 Department Members Displaced by the Flood or Having Other SIgnificant Challenges * Linda Stewart was evacuated from her home in Old Hickory by boat ...
PhOSCo PhOSCo is a complete electronic data capture system for multi site clinical trials that has been in use for seven years. It is written in object oriented Java ...
Preventable Adverse Drug Event: An adverse event presumably caused by an error in medication, the absence of which would have prevented this event entirely. Ameliorable ...
Considerations in Planning Analysis Strategy Preparing a detailed analysis plan is important in having quality, reproducible research. This page outlines strategies ...
Printers and Similar Office Equipment The department supports high end network printers and encourages members to use duplex printing whenever possible to save paper ...
Goals for Tenure Track Faculty The most important goals of the Department of Biostatistics are motivated by the School of Medicine's goal of being in the top ranks ...
Guideline Criteria for Promotion from Staff to Faculty Expectations The promotion of a biostatistician from a staff to a faculty position is a major step. To qualify ...
Protecting Your Data Information in this topic has been superseded by the Department of Biostatistics Data Security Policy topic. Introduction Certain kinds of information ...
Protein Alignment Algorithms Here's some notes and links to protein alignment algorithms I've found. Here's the Wikipedia page about sequence alignment. Terms Here ...
Determinant of a matrix Determinants palys an important role in finding the inverse of a square matrix and also in solving systems of linear equations. Determinant ...
QDQ Project Meetings 28Oct10 Notes by: Afshartous Question development: The proposed 10 point scale should be fine. Better to start with a finer scale instead of ...
Graphics for Clinical Trials Frank E Harrell JrVanderbilt Department of BiostatisticsOffice of Biostatistics FDA CDER DIA/FDA Statistics Forum, North Bethesda MD ...
The R Clinic The R Clinic is a monthly clinic to assist with learning R and troubleshooting difficult programming questions. You might also be interested in the ...
Configuring R Using html Help Facility Linux users of R version 2.10 and later may want to take advantage of the new dynamic html rendering of help pages. The konqueror ...
A Mockup of an R (or S Plus) Script for Specifying a Research Database # Institutional variable definitions used as defaults for all projects # Will usually be in ...
REDCap Quirks This page is for documenting quirks that appear in REDCap. Dates REDCap allows you to create fields for collecting dates, but it does not allow for ...
Regression Modeling Strategies Short Course 2017 About the Course Four Session Short Course for Regression Modeling Strategies by Frank E. Harrell, Jr., Ph.D., Professor ...
Regression Modeling Strategies Short Course 2018 About the Course Four Session Short Course for Regression Modeling Strategies by Frank E. Harrell, Jr., Ph.D., Professor ...
Regression Modeling Strategies Short Course 2019 About the Course Four Session Short Course for Regression Modeling Strategies by Frank E. Harrell, Jr., Ph.D., Professor ...
Regression Modeling Strategies Short Course 2020 UPDATE 2020 04 14 Go to http://hbiostat.org/doc/rms/4day.html UPDATE 2020 03 14 Due to concerns about the coronavirus ...
Local lodging options for guests attending 2018 Biostatistics RMS Course AREA HOTELS HOTEL INFORMATION TELEPHONE Homewood Suites Nashville/Vanderbilt ...
June 4 6 2001 1=disagree 5=agree * The course met the objectives advertised on Insightful's websight and flyers * 5: 5/9 4: 4/9 * has provided me with ...
R Programming ProgrammingTipsForStatisticians Google's R style guide Handouts and Online Books * S Poetry and R Inferno by Patrick Burns by Patrick J. Burns ...
Ruby on Rails Rails is a full stack, open source web framework in Ruby for writing real world applications with joy and less code than most frameworks spend doing ...
Notes on rapache This place is a catch all for rapache notes and documents. The rest of this page is devoted to miscellaneous notes, while the documents are in the ...
Vanderbilt Research Data Management Discussion Group Goals To evaluate data entry and management tools that could be useful for internal clinical trials, multi center ...
Some Issues and Current Recommendations Regarding Research Data Management, for Principal Investigators There are many approaches to implementing a data management ...
Many texts are excellent sources of knowledge about individual statistical tools (general linear models, survival analysis, missing data, etc.), but the art of data ...
Renee Torres Biostatistician I E mail: renee.torres@vanderbilt.edu Phone: 615.322.6103 Fax: 615.343.4924Vanderbilt University School of MedicineDepartment of ...
Review of Bakris et al, Kidney International 2004 65:1991 2002 Biostatistical Reviewier: FrankHarrell This is a meta analysis of randomized clinical trials with at ...
Review of Tepel et al, NEJM 2000;343:180 4 Biostatistical Reviewer: FrankHarrell This paper demonstrates that even in a premier journal, statistical reviews are frequently ...
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 ...
Rhubarb YAML Specification This page details the YAML specification intended for use with Rhubarb as a way to specify CRF format. 1.0 (stable) Dictionary The ...
Changes and Additions Planned for the Second Edition of Regression Modeling Strategies * Add many new references published from 2001 2007 * Add information on ...
Errata for Second (Feb. 2002), Third (Dec. 2003), and Fourth (Dec. 2004) Printings of Regression Modeling Strategies AbbreviationMeaning Pg Page L Line ...
Alternate R Code This page contains R code that supplements or replaces code in the first printing of the second edition of RMS. Examples of Replacement Code for ...
Errata for First Printing (Sept. 2015) of Regression Modeling Strategies, 2nd Edition For replacements for R code that no longer works due to changes in the R system ...
Regression Modeling Strategies With Applications to Linear Models, Logistic and Ordinal Regression, and Survival Analysis Major Changes Since The First Edition ...
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%HEAD{ NAME="Robert Greevy, PhD" AFFILIATION="VUMC" TITLE="Rescuing Randomized Trials: How to Detect and Correct Unlucky Randomizations as They Occur" IMAGELINK ...
%HEAD{ NAME="Roger Peng, PhD" AFFILIATION="Professor Statistics and Data Sciences University of Texas, Austin" TITLE="Principles for Designing Complex Data ...
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Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Biostatistics Student Research Forum: Optimal Decision Making Under Uncertainty: An Application to Disease Outbreaks ...
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IGP 304: Statistics for Biomedical Research (Spring 2010) Instructors * Frank Harrell PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, Chairman, Dept. of Biostatistics ...
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%HEAD{ NAME="Wei Sun, PhD" AFFILIATION="ProfessorBiostatistics Program, Public Health Sciences DivisionFred Hutch" TITLE="Estimation of cell type composition ...
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%HEAD{ NAME="Yuan Ji, PhD" AFFILIATION="Professor of Biostatistics University of Chicago" TITLE="PAM HC:A Bayesian Nonparametric Construction of Hybrid Control ...