Subject: Community Hlth and Epidemiolog
Credit units: 3
Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
College: Graduate and Postdoc Studies
Department: Community Hlth and Epidemiol

This course explores the application of advanced multivariate statistical methods commonly used to analyze correlated data and is an extension and continuation of Biostatistics I (CHEP 805.3). The course will be largely applied, presenting analytic methods using the R programming language; however, where appropriate, certain theoretical results will be presented. Topics to be covered in the course are: general approaches for longitudinal data analysis, which include analysis of repeated measures using Analysis of Variance, Survival Analysis, statistical methods based on Generalized Linear Models, Generalized Estimating Equations, Linear Mixed Effect Models and Maximum Likelihood and a brief introduction to handling missing data. Computer software used: R.

Prerequisite(s): CHEP 805 or permission of the instructor.

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