2011 Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series December * December 28 NO SEMINAR * December 21 NO SEMINAR * December 14 Health Care Reform and the Dynamics of ...
Department New Year Potluck Luncheon Event Details Date: This Friday, January 10th Time: 12pm 1pm Location: Big Conference Room/Break Room at 2525 WEA ...
Itinerary for Dr. Alex Kaizer Wednesday, 10 Feb 2021 Time Person 12:15 12:45pm Group Meeting: 1. Andrew Spieker 2. Jonathan Schildcrout3. Thomas Stewart ...
Statisctical Terms Click on the link to here the pronunciation * hypothesis: http://cougar.eb.com/sound/h/hypoth10.wav * hypothetical: http://cougar.eb.com ...
1 To speak in turns. No matter what the topic is every person MUST have a turn to talk (NOT to ask: "Does anybody want to say anything?") 1 To work on other skills ...
Presentation and Teaching Schedule Sampling Code 07/28/2006 1 Peggy is a session leader. She has gave a talk about use of HOWEVER. 07/21/2006 1 Aixiang is ...
Tests Books: TOEFL iBT with CD ROM (Kaplan Toefl Cbt) (Paperback) by Kaplan TOEFL iBT : The Official ETS Study Guide (McGraw Hill's TOEFL iBT) FREE Workbook ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 25 Apr 2012 Amy Howes Job Shadowing Itenerary Friday, June 15, 2012 10:25 AM Come to Medical Center North (MCN) using the entrance at the round ...
Andrew Spieker, PhDPostdoctoral fellowDepartment of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and InformaticsUniversity of PennsylvaniaSecond Visit Flight InformationArrival ...
Good News Meeting Ground Rules PEOPLE * Aihua "Anna" Bian, Biostatistician I * Steven Chen, Assistant Professor * Mike Guo, Bioinformatics Systems Engineer ...
It is highly recommended that participants attend both the morning and afternoon sessions to take full advantage of the course. However, all interested participants ...
Recommendations, Analyses, and Data for Biostatistics Basic and Animal Research Clinic Archive Current Notes 22 Nov 2013 Alexia Melo, Eischen Laboratory * My ...
PATHO dataset Local lab pathology results. It should contain entry biopsy, for cause biopsy, and surgery dates. BIOPSY dataset should contain the 24 month scheduled ...
Cancer data Currently PROSCAR variable has three categories: "Yes", "Suspicious", "No". ASAP variable has three categories: "Yes", "No", "Not applicable". A new variable ...
Title: Continuing Education for Masters Biostatisticians Third Thursday of the month. Participants: Tebeb Gebretsadik, William Wu Brief description: The objective ...
Note that the use of the Gleason data is not completely straightforward. The key point here is that in the PATHOLOG dataset each biopsy is represented as multiple ...
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 ...
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 ...
Continuous Quality Improvement Projects Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) means continuous actions performed in order to enhance work environment, processes and ...
1 A subject is assumed to violate Inc/Exc Criteria if sas$elig$crtno, sas$elig$crtty are not missing and sas$elig$encexok is N. A subject is assumed not to violate ...
TIME: 11:00AM 1:00PM LOCATION: PRB898B General Rules * Things don't need to be fancy * Variety, variety, variety... don't repeat dishes/items * Food needs ...
GOOD NEWS Terri Scott and Frank Harrell each presented workshops at the International R users group meeting at Iowa State University this month. Terri will be giving ...
May update As part of our effort to continuously improve communication within the department, we are sending this email update. There will be a similar email each ...
Compliance data only comes in house for a given subject at years 1, 2 and 4 (with running logs). Hence the numbers shown in the "Due" column accordingly. For example ...
We use: English in Use, A self study reference and practice book for intermediate students of English (with answers, CD included), Raymond Murphy, Cambridge University ...
Recommendations, Analyses, and Data for Health Services Research, Diagnosis, and Prognosis Clinic Archive Current Notes 23Dec13 Heidi Silver, Director, Vanderbilt ...
Imputation procedures Imputation of MOS Score Each of the original numeric values from the MOS Sleep Problem Index will be converted to a 0 100 ange score with questions ...
Main.SvetlanaEden 20 Jan 2012 Subversion under Windows (Turtose): * installation: http://www.shokhirev.com/nikolai/programs/SVN/svn.html * backing up and ...
We work on: * American Accent * English Grammar * Writing Skills Next Meeting Homework How to make our meetings better Attendance List Example Help ...
Improve presentation and communication skills among members of our department * Project Leaders SvetlanaEden, PeggySchuyler * Project Co Leader AngelAn Improve ...
Communication Skills Committee The goal of the communication skills committee is to foster good oral and written communication skills within the department of Biostatistics ...
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 ...
Good News PEOPLE * New Faculty and Staff * Abby Burke, Administrative Assistant III * Jing He, Computer Systems Analyst I * Steven Kish, Administrative ...
Biostatistics Journal Club *The information on this page is from 2018. For current Journal Club details, visit the Graduate Student Association site** The Biostatistics ...
Julia Wrobel, PhDAssistant ProfessorDepartment of BiostatisticsUniversity of ColoradoJune 23 25, 2021June 23:Julia arrives around 10:05am Lyft to department or hotel ...
Itinerary for Dr. Marie Davidian Wednesday, 17 Feb 2021 Time Person 1:30 2:45pm Seminar Lecture 2:45 3:15pm Group Meeting: 1. Andrew Spieker 2. Jonathan ...
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 ...
Biostatistics Nashville Sounds Game Night Friday, May 2, 2008 at 7:00 PM at Greer Stadium The Medical Center has given the Biostatistics Department 30 tickets to enjoy ...
Converting dates of the form 'mddyy', 'mddyyyy', 'mmddyy', or 'mmddyyyy' to the form 'YYYY MM DD' Problem: A data file contains multiple date columns, whose format ...
Volume of HGPIN should be present in the database for each post baseline core that has a HGPIN diagnosis; cores with no HGPIN diagnosis will need to be set to zero ...
% core involved and # of cores with cancer pertinent values should be present in the database for each post baseline core with a prostate cancer diagnosis. For a ...
This is where you add new variables for USER_INFO Please attach images to OurPeople with the name "FirstLast.JPG" * Set FRANKHARRELLINFO = Frank Harrell, Ph.D. ...
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 ...
8th of April, 2008 Primary Outcomes 1 Number of preventable/ameliorable ADEs (see PILL CVD definitions) per patient during the first 30 days after hospital discharge ...
Questions about proposal, protocol, and appendix General questions Questions about primary outcome 1 Form 12: What do I do with it ? What is the outcome of this ...
Previous Versions 10th of April, 2008 Primary Outcomes Mixing actual and potential ADEs is not a good idea for two main reasons. First, these variable are defined ...
Post baseline biopsies 1 It would be best to report out two summaries for each pathological endpoint. One would include only the Central review data (i.e., data ...
Biostatistics Potluck Party Monday, February 12 at 11:00 AM (Lunch); PRB 898 A B General Rules * For Biostat. faculty and staff only * Things don't need ...
Intonation * good * each word is stressed (chunky) * no word is stressed (too plain) * words are stressed by raising volume not by changing pitch Pronunciation ...
To Do for December 2007 Report To Do for June 2007 Report To Do for Oct 2006 Report To Do for May 2006 Report To Do for May 2005 Report To Do for October, 2005 ...
1 Use meaningful names, that are build in a standard manner, and as long as necessary. For example, InptScr (inpatient serum creatinine), MaxInptScrDt (date when maximal ...
Main.SvetlanaEden 09 Nov 2010 Recurrent AKI AKI to CKD Receipt of Care AKI Referral Medication Surveillance Association of Patients Characteristics with Hospital ...
For the RAMOS data (PatientActivity.csv), the "withdrawal.from.study.visit.date" should correspond to w/d from study for all subjects (which should be the same as ...
Vanderbilt Research Data Management Discussion Group Goals To evaluate data entry and management tools that could be useful for internal clinical trials, multi center ...
Work environment phrases for practicing intonation * correlation coefficient * treatment group * point one (.1) * odds ratio * zero point one (0.1) ...
Summaries of Follow up Data to Include in Reports, October 2004 and Later Matt Somerville, GSK 30Aug04 Following are data summaries to be provided in a blinded (i ...
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 ...
MEDRACODE dataset Is a maping between adverse event prefered term, low level code and system/organ class term. Contains variables: aelltcd AELLTCD, aept "Preferred ...
Side Effects of Merging SAE: 1 Low level term name is missing in CRF data therefore it is substituted by AEVTX variable which will appear in capital letters in ...
Instructor: Judith A. Swan, Ph.D. Associate Director for Writing in Science and Engineering Princeton University Effective writers succeed by developing two central ...
Seminars and Workshop Schedule Planning Possible and definite future speakers 2014 April 16th: Mary Margaret Huizinga, M.D. 9th: Yaoyi Chen 2nd: Paul Harris Ph.D ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Statistical Computing Series The Statistical Computing Series is a monthly event for learning various aspects of modern statistical computing from practitioners ...
Matt's email from : Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:26:07 To determine exposure to study drug for purposes of reporting to the IDMC, I would suggest the following: a) if the ...
Finding the sum of repeated continuous variables for each subject Suppose you have a data set with repeated measures i.e., you have multiple values of a continuous ...
Continuing Education and Skills Development to Document for Annual Evaluations Biostatistics Seminars Attended Attended roughly 2.5 out of 4 seminars, I didn't record ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Comparison of modeling predictor serum creatinine as continuous vs. categorized in time to event analysis: An ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series Loops in R: So much to run, so little time. Tips on efficiency. Svetlana Eden, MS Biostatistician III, Department ...
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 ...
List of Vanderbilt Biostatistics Wiki users To edit pages on this site, you must have a registered user name and password. You do not need to register if you just ...
1 Upgrade to R 1.9 (FH and SE) 1 Convert all R functions in Hmisc and rreport to use new R date class instead of POSIXct for pure date variables (FH) 1 Copy ...
1 Change import.s to get all SAS CRF files from data/rda/*.rda (FH has probably done all this, just check) (SE) 1 Change report.s to remove sas from rdaInFiles ...
To Do for the December 2007 Report 1 Open report:(May 2006) Add to the scheduled biopsy analysis the proportion of positive cores and the total cancer volume ...
1 Monitoring plan with statistics added to graph when appropriate (FH) 1 Survival curves (FH) 1 Compute study drug compliance (file drugdp) between visits and ...
1 Ignore AEs with onset date before date of randomization 1 Put import.s, report.s, *.tex in CVS repository (or all files if binary files are not diffed by CVS ...
1 Add argument prmsd so mixedvarReport could show mean and standard deviation (SE?) 1 CRF completeness report(SE) 1 Automatically sense date of last I3 data ...
1 Solve a problem of illegal records in RAMOS when a subject has both a randomization date and a withdrawal.from.run.in date: Matt: If the subjects of interest have ...
To Do for the Oct 2005 Report 1 Ask Matt how to process unscheduled biopsy records dates (for one subject) that differ by few days (SE) 1 To write a function ...
To Do for the October 2006 Report 1 Check why postbaseBiop does not contain subjects 92736, 110972, 111656 (PATHOLOG shows positive pros.can. status for these ...
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Treatment alteration scores these should be present in the database for all post baseline biopsies and so can be summarized over all subjects. Note that these are ...
Notes on trouble shooting Twiki problems 20 Apr 2004 a user recently got this error message when trying to save a change. Biostatistics TWiki . Main . ReduceDMC ...
Makes at least 12 servings. Ingredients: * 1 medium onion * 3 medium carrots * 4 medium celery leaves * 4 garlic cloves * half large butternut squash ...
Statistics for Main Web (2008) Month: Topic views: Topic saves: File uploads: Most popular topic views: Top contributors for topic save and uploads ...
Notes for Wednesday Biostatistics Clinic Archive Current Notes 2013 December 11 Catherine Bulka, Anesthesiology * Wants to demonstrate/examine group balance ...
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 ...
Data Sources TMTDISC:(CRF: Running LogsTFcompliantversion4.pdf, p.98 (p.26 in pdf)) * INPERSP: Was the investigational product stopped permanently before the end ...