McGill University, Department
of Epidemiology and Biostatistics About the Course (updated June 2, 2003) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
2 ways to use SAS, and materials on how to do so... (updated Sat Sept 20, 2003)
2003 Course Material
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Date | Topics | Text |
Slides |
Homework |
Other Notes (***) |
Mon June 2 |
Understanding Simple Linear Regression |
Ch 2 | "Bridge"
from 607 M&M Ch2 Corrln. M&M Ch10 Regrn. G&S Ch2 |
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Wed June 4 |
More on Simple Linear Regression |
Ch 2 | Sums_of_Squares | ||
Fri June 6 |
Multiple Linear Regression: BASICS |
Ch 3 pp51-62 |
G&S Ch3 Part 1: pp51-62 ( file also contains Part 2) |
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Mon June 9 |
Multiple Regression: INFERENCE / APPLICATIONS |
Ch 3 pp63-93 |
G&S Ch3 Part 2: pp63-93 ( file also contains Part 1) |
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Wed June 11 |
Multiple Regression: ADJUSTMENT / CONFOUNDING |
Ch 3 pp69-72 + .. |
G&S Ch1+ | ||
Fri June 13 |
Multiple Regression: INTERACTION / EFFECT MODF'N |
Ch 3 pp94-104 |
G&S Ch3 pp94-103 | ||
Mon June 16 |
Do the Data Fit the Assumptions? |
Ch 4 |
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Notes: NKNW Ch 9 | |
Wed June 18 |
Multicollinearity Modeling / Variable Selection |
Ch's 5,6 |
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Fri June 20 |
Intro to Logistic Regression |
Ch 11 |
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Mon June 23 |
Intro to Logistic Regression |
Ch 11 |
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Wed June 25 |
Intro to Logistic Regression |
Ch 11 |
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Fri June 27 |
Oral Presentation of Projects |
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Topics | Details |
Psychological Stress, Negative Life Events, Perceived Stress, Negative Affect Smoking, Alcohol Consumption and Susceptibility to the Common Cold | raw data(for details see
documentation) documentation sas program (incl raw data) |
Coronary Heart Disease in the Framingham Heart Study | data documentation
sas permanent
dataset, version 6 added june 20, 2003 sas program [incl raw data] |
Early diet in children born preterm and their IQ at age eight | background data items data: contact J.H. |
Predicting Percentage of Body Fat from Simple Body Measurements | documentation sas permanent dataset sas program raw data |
Fruitfly Longevity | documentation sas program (incl raw data) sas permanent dataset |
Lidkoping injury prevention program | documentation sas pgm (incl raw data) sas permanent dataset |
The cost of renting office space | documentation data |
Pulse Rates before and after Exercise | link doc_sas program raw data(.txt) |
Session |
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"0" |
Medline Search for articles with textword "multivariate"
Search Results (20 abstracts) Article: Iron deficiency and Cognitive Achievement |
1 |
Parent / child heights Galton's data
documentation sas
Fig1 Fig2 Another example of regression to the mean: why the pattern in Fig 6 ? Busselton Norms Height all women men Weight all women men FEV1 all women men Anthropometric study: SW Ethiopia summary data Is Miss America an Undernourished Role Model? letter to JAMA data (inside sas program).txt sas permanent dataset file (sd2) Shapely centrefolds? Temporal change in body measures: trend analysis BMJ article data [Excel file] Montreal temperatures over the 20th century sas program min max mean Rapid Changes in Flowering Time in British Plants article ( Science) data (Excel file) Climate Change in Nontraditional Data Sets article ( Science) The Nenana Ice Classic nenana-ice-breakup.txt nenana-ice-breakup-csv.txt INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (UNEP) Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis Summary for Policymakers Why do old men have big ears? article & q's Predicting when babies first sleep through the night article and q's From Cartoon Guide to Statistics 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Eye-Fits" Mosteller 1/3 2/3 3/3 | JH spreadsheet Macro | Chatillon 1/3 2/3 3/3 Altitude and birthweight 1/3 2/3 3/3 Prediction Inappropriate use of r for accuracy of prediction Appropriate use of prediction bands Differences in bone density over 2 centuries article & q's Fig 1 Fig 2 So you were born in december too? moore |
2 |
Correlation of Weight and Height in Alberta
4-year olds 3-
to 7-year olds 95%CI for rho as function of r and n Nomogram Cardiovascular Mortality and Water Hardness Graph Method Agreement: Bland and Altman article Fig 1 2 3 4 5 6 Other examples 1 2 Florida Votes 2000 and 1996 links to analyses data Florida Votes 2000 (includes technology used in each county) notes + data (inside sas program) Expected Mean Squares etc.. Excel spreadsheet |
3 |
Notes re multiple regression from 607 Birthweight by gestational age and gender Canada 1972/86 article SAS Program (incl data) sas permanent dataset file (.sd2) Average Weight as function of Height and Age contour plot Borrowing Strength using regression 1 2 3 4 Intro to multi-variable analysis (incl. SHARPER and FAIRER e.g.'s) from 1995 |
4 |
Extra Sums of Squares - from Neter et al. Figure 7.1 pages from Sections 7.1-7.3 of Neter et al. 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 Resting on a knife-edge: collinearity Excel spreadsheet for 'Statistical Hammock' Resting on a knife-edge: collinearity Manuscript: Visualizing how collinearity affects fitted regression coefficients |
5 |
Confounding -- in pictures and numbers 1
2 3 Admissions to Berkeley (incl. Mantel-Haenszel calculations) data Mac vs IBM, Simpson's Paradox, ... Other confounding examples Outcomes of Pregnancy during Residency for women and wives of their male classmates from NEJM Blood Pressure and Altitude article Neurodevelopment of children exposed in utero to antidepressant drugs article |
6 |
Formula for "Ideal" Weight
(.pdf) Distance hit with aluminum vs. wood baseball bat figure Average earnings by level of Education, Age and Sex table Water fluoridation, tooth decay in 5 year olds, and social deprivation (Jones CM et al. BMJ 1997;315:514-517, 30 August) article figure 1 data extracted from Figure 1 (includes sas program) data extracted from Figure 1 (Excel file) Broad-Spectrum Sunscreen Use and the Development of New Nevi in White Children JAMA article GENETIC VARIATION IN ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE AND THE BENEFICIAL EFFECT OF MODERATE ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION ON MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION article THE RELATION BETWEEN THE AVAILABILITY OF NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE AND NEONATAL MORTALITY article A covariate as a modifier, confounder, or both: Miettinen |
7 |
Annotated Guide to Output and Plots from Regression
Fits sas
institute Data from Another Trip to Mars, G_S p9 112-147: sas pgm (inc raw data) sas sd2 file |
8 |
Automated Model Selection: excerpts from SAS manual Modeling and Variable Selection in Epidemiology (Greenland) ajph article Resting on a knife-edge: collinearity Excel spreadsheet |
9 - 11 |
First use of Logistic Regression Function in epidemiology:
"Joint dependence of risk of coronary heart disease on serum cholesterol and systolic blood pressure: a discriminant function analysis" (1962) Cornfield article Altitude and Birthweight SAS program (incl raw data) Brand & Keirse: pair of expository articles on logistic regression I II SAS program (incl data) Parental periconceptional smoking and male: female ratio of newborn infants: article Pulse Pressure and Cardiovascular Disease-related Mortality: Follow-up Study of the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) article Are seat belt restraints as effective in school age children as in adults? A prospective crash study article Development and Validation of a Prognostic Index for 1-Year Mortality in Older Adults After Hospitalization article editorial The Mode of Delivery and the Risk of Vertical Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 -- A Meta-Analysis of 15 Prospective Cohort Studies FULL NEJM article (pdf) Fig 1 Fig 2 Fig 3 Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 link to sas programs and data from table 3 (course 626) The Role of Woodstoves in the Etiology of Nasal Polyposis article |
Directly from the authors (see p 702 of Edition
2 of text)
LINK to Slinker's website www.vetmed.wsu.edu/AppliedRegression
From Glantz and Slinker
Table 1-1 (p. 5) raw
data -- inside sas program ( .txt )
sas permanent dataset file
(v6) sas permanent dataset file (v8)
D2 raw data only (
.txt ) sas program, incl raw data ( .sas )
sas permanent dataset file (version 6) sas permanent dataset file (version 8)
D5 sas program, incl.data
( .txt )
sas permanent dataset
file (version6) sas permanent dataset file (version 8)
D6 sas
program, incl. data ( .txt )
sas permanent dataset
file (version6) sas permanent dataset file (version 8)
D8 sas program, incl.
means and raw data ( .txt )
sas datasets
means( version 6) individuals(
version 6)
means( version
8) individuals( version 8)
C12 sas program (incl
raw data)
Other
Alberta data(.txt) -- Alberta
data(.xls) -- sas_and_data.txt
-- sas file (sd2)
alcohol and smooth pursuit data sas program (incl data)
documentation
sas permanent
dataset file (.sd2 i.e., version 6)
sas permanent dataset
file (.sas7bdat i.e., version 8)
Berkeley longitudinal
data(,txt) -- documentation_and_sas
birthweight data sas
program (incl raw data and documentation)
sas permanent dataset file
(version 6)
bodyfat data (252 ss) raw
data(.txt) -- sas program_data_documentation(.txt)
sas permanent dataset (version 6)
sas permanent
dataset (version 8)
bodyfat data (small) documentation sas
program, incl. raw data ( . sas )
sas permanent
dataset (version 6) sas permanent dataset (version 8)
body dimensions documentation
sas program, incl. raw data
( . sas )
Brain vs Body Weight data
for animals -- documentation --
sas
Brain Size data
-- documentation -- sas
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Brink's data
-- documentation --
sas
...
A Question of Theft [ article by statisticians Fairley (NYC) and Levin (Brinks) ]
... Table and Graphs (courtesy Fairley)
... Testimony(Fairley) .. starting page [1809] --
Testimony(Levin)
1993 cars -- documentation -- sas
catheter data -- documentation -- sas
cigarette data -- documentation -- sas
Coleman data on schools -- documentation -- sas
car crash data -- documentation -- sas
draft lottery data text file (raw data and documentation)
sas program
(incl raw data and documentation)
sas permanent dataset file(v6)
sas permanent dataset
file(v8)
Electricity bills documentation and questions sas program, incl raw data ( .txt )
sas permanent dataset file (version 6) sas permanent dataset file (version 8)
ER: Quebec Emergency Room data
'94-98 -- documentation --
sas
Old Faithful
1978/1979
data, from Weisberg data (inside sas program) documentation
sas permanent
dataset file(.sd2 i.e., version 6)
sas permanent
dataset file (.sas7bdat i.e., version 8)
story and newer (1995) data [M&M]
1995 data (inside
sas program)
sas permanent dataset
file (.sd2 version 6) sas permanent dataset file (.sas7bdat i.e., version 8)
Forbes' data on boiling
point and pressure -- documentation --
sas
Friday the 13th data -- documentation -- sas
Galileo data -- documentation -- sas
House prices sas
program (incl raw data and documentation
sas permanent dataset file (version 6) sas permanent dataset file (version 8)
icu data from Hosmer and Lemeshow -- documentation -- sas
kidney data -- documentation -- sas
data in KKM problem 5_2 -- documentation -- sas
data in KKM problem 5_8 -- documentation -- sas
KKM problem 5_12 child vocabulary data raw data (ascii)
sas program (incl
rawdata) sas permanent file (sd2)
data in KKM problem 12_19 -- documentation -- sas
data in KKM problem 12_23 -- documentation -- sas
Lung Pressure data -- documentation -- sas
Muscle data -- documentation -- sas
Olympic data -- documentation -- sas
Polyamine data -- documentation -- sas
salaries data (Graybill
and Iyer) -- documentation --
sas
salary data -- documentation -- sas
Satisfaction data -- documentation -- sas
"Sleep in Mammals"
data -- documentation --
sas
Does Smoking Improve Survival? sas
program (incl story and rawdata)
Fatal Crashes when Speed Limit was 55 mph and 65 mph sas program incl raw data
sas permanent
file (.sd2 i.e., version 6)
sas permanent file
(.sas7bdat i.e., version 8)
Water supply in Southern
California -- documentation --
sas
windsurfing data -- documentation -- article..Page1 -- article..Page2 -- sas -- sas
(data and program all-in-one)