Prerequisite: Public Health P8104. Suggested preparation: P6104, P8104
and working knowledge of calculus, population parameters, sufficient statistics. Basic distribution theory. Point and interval estimation. Method of maximum likelihood. Method of least squares regression. Introduction to the theory of hypothesis testing. Likelihood ration tests. Nonparametric procedures. Statistical design theory.
Prerequisite: Public Health P6104, P8100 and a working knowledge of calculus.
An introduction to the application of statistical methods in survival analysis, generalized linear models, and design of experiments. Estimation and comparison of survival curves, regression models for survival data, log-linear models, logit models, analysis of repeated measurements, and the analysis of data from blocked and split-plot experiments. Examples drawn from the health sciences.
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at:
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This is a Law School course. For more detailed course information, please go to the
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This is a Public Health Course. Public Health classes are offered on the Health Services Campus at 168th Street. For more detailed course information, please go to Mailman School of Public Health Courses website at http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/academics/courses
Prerequisites: At least one course each in probability and genetics and the instructor's permission.
The theoretical foundations underlying the models and techniques used in mathematical genetics and genetic epidemiology. Use and interpretation of likelihood methods; formulation of mathematical models; segregation analysis; ascertainment bias; linkage analysis; genetic heterogeneity; and complex genetic models. Lectures, discussions, homework problems, and a final examination.
Prerequisite: Public Health P6104
or the equivalent. Fundamental methods and concepts of the randomized clinical trial; protocol development, randomization, blindedness, patient recruitment, informed consent, compliance, sample size determination, cross-overs, collaborative trials. Each student prepares and submits the protocol for a real or hypothetical clinical trial.
The major national security controversies during the last decade have all concerned intelligence. Critics blamed U.S. intelligence agencies for failing to prevent the 9/11 attacks, and then for missing the mark on Iraqi capabilities before the war. In response, Congress ordered a sweeping reorganization of the intelligence community, and scholars began to revisit basic questions: What is the relationship between intelligence and national security? How does it influence foreign policy and strategic decisions? Why does it succeed or fail? This seminar provides an overview of the theory and practice of U.S. intelligence. It details the sources and methods used by collectors, the nature of intelligence analysis, and the relationship between intelligence agencies and policymakers. It also contains a short history of the U.S. intelligence community and evaluates the ongoing efforts to reform it. Finally, it discusses the uneasy role of secret intelligence in a modern democracy.
Roman art provides us with a rich and manifold repertoire of architectural representations. Reliefs featuring emperors engaged in religious and civic rituals against architectural backdrops, coins celebrating newly constructed buildings, paintings emphasizing the spatial settings of everyday activities—the range of ancient media and genres reproducing edifices is vast. These images have typically attracted scholarly attention first and foremost
qua
visual renderings of coeval monuments: they have therefore been assessed according to their degree of accuracy, and exploited for the information they can yield when those monuments are no longer, or only partially, extant. While not disregarding such aspect, this seminar will consider architectural representations as testimonies of the
perception
and
reception
of buildings and their decoration in antiquity; and, along with the descriptive qualities of images depicting architecture, it will address their
prescriptive
and
normative
character. Among other things, it will focus on the conventions that these images used and that caused them to deviate from the appearance of the actual buildings; the treatment of architectural ornament in images; the interaction between architecture and human activities, be they ceremonial or quotidian; and especially the
functions
of ancient depictions of buildings and monuments. Graduate students from all departments, as well as advanced undergraduates, are most welcome to apply.
This is an advanced course in development economics, designed for second-year SIPA students. The course will cover both seminar papers and recent research on development microeconomics. The goal is to introduce students to the literature and familiarize them with the main research methods and questions in the field. After an introduction on the big macro questions and motivating facts, including some quantitative tools and a discussion on poverty traps, the course will focus on key topics in the microeconomics of development. We will discuss the different hypotheses that can explain low investment levels in human capital (nutrition, health, education, entrepreneurship programs) and on agricultural inputs. Then, we will focus on the most recent developments related to microfinance (credits, savings and insurance). The course will also include papers at the intersection between behavioral economics and development, with focus on self-control problems. Coursework includes empirical exercises, requiring some programming in Stata. Material discussed during class presumes knowledge of calculus and quantitative methods.
As Adam Smith noted long ago, economic development cannot occur in the absence of a stable legal system. The purpose of this course is two-fold. First, the course reviews some of the modern developments in economics that are relevant for the study of institutions. Second, it uses these tools to explore the structure of the law, and its impact upon economic performance. The goal is to provide a foundation for the understanding of legal institutions that goes beyond national boundaries, and can help better understand the challenges that rapid economic growth and globalization pose for policy makers.
Prerequisites: Public Health P6104.
Introduction to the principles of research data management and other aspects of data coordination using structured, computer-based exercises. Targeted to students with varying backgrounds and interests: (1) established and prospective investigators, scientists, and project leaders who want to gain a better understanding of the principles of data management to improve the organization of their own research, make informed decisions in assembling a data management team, and improve their ability to communicate with programmers and data analysts; and (2) students considering a career in data management, data analysis, or the administration of a data coordinating center.
Prerequisites: Public Health P6104.
Introduction to the principles of research data management and other aspects of data coordination using structured, computer-based exercises. Targeted to students with varying backgrounds and interests: (1) established and prospective investigators, scientists, and project leaders who want to gain a better understanding of the principles of data management to improve the organization of their own research, make informed decisions in assembling a data management team, and improve their ability to communicate with programmers and data analysts; and (2) students considering a career in data management, data analysis, or the administration of a data coordinating center.
This course is designed to develop practical advocacy skills to protect and promote human rights. A focus will be developing an advocacy strategy on a current human rights issue, including the identification of goals and objectives, appropriate advocacy targets and strategies, and the development of an appropriate research methodology. Students will explore broad-based human rights campaigns, use of the media, and advocacy with UN and legislative bodies. Over the course of the semester, students will become familiar with a variety of tools to apply to a human rights issue of their choosing. Case studies will illustrate successful advocacy campaigns on a range of human rights issues."
Prerequisites: (SIPA U6300 or SIPA U6400) and SIPA U6500
This course explores the implications of behavioral economics for economic developmentâhow it leads us to rethink what development is about, and how it provides us with new ways to advance development. This course investigates a psychologically and sociologically more realistic view of how people make decisions that affect economic development, drawing upon the rich theoretical and empirical literature of recent years. Behavioral economics gives new insights into why it is sometimes so hard to change society. But it also provides new insights into what brings about change, when it does occur. The range of possible equilibria and policy tools is much broader than with rational actors with fixed preferences. While the economy and society may at times exhibit large rigidities, large-scale social change may be caused by simultaneous frame switches for many individuals. Behavioral development economics is a new and exciting field, presenting students many research opportunities in theory, in laboratory settings, and in field experiments. One of the objectives of the course will be to expose students to these opportunities.
Basic principles and actual practices of managing financial resources and accounting in government organizations at the federal, state, and local levels. Topics include Public budgeting and accounting systems, principles of financial reporting, taxation, intergovernmental aid, financial statement analysis, public securities, and debt management. Hands-on computer laboratory exercises provide training in financial analysis.
The course provides an introduction to budgeting and financial control as a means of influencing the behavior of public organizations. Concepts include the budget process and taxation, intergovernmental revenues, municipal finance, bonds, control of expenditures, purchasing, debt management, productivity enhancement, and nonprofit finance. Students learn about the fiscal problems that managers typically face, and how they seek to address them. Students also gain experience in conducting financial analysis and facility with spreadsheet programs. Case materials utilize earth systems issues as well as other policy issues. A computer lab section is an essential aspect of the course, as it teaches students to use spreadsheet software to perform practical exercises regarding the budgeting and financial management of a hypothetical state environmental agency.
This graduate seminar will examine the medium of sculpture in the medieval European context. Starting with its ambivalent reception and its association with pagan idolatry, the course will explore how the formal, material, and phenomenal qualities inherent to the three-dimensional medium engendered sculpture with a unique ability to convey complicated theological precepts to the masses, elevate the drama of the liturgy, and conjure visionary experiences. Structured around case studies of objects abroad and in American collections, the seminar will couple rigorous visual analysis with classic and contemporary methodological approaches from the field in its study of reliquaries, altarpieces, tombs, monumental architectural programs, and liturgical props, among other works.
Prerequisite:
registration as a nutrition degree candidate or instructor’s permission. Discussion of pathology, symptomatology, and clinical manifestations with case presentations when possible. Laboratory assessments of each condition. Principles of nutritional intervention for therapy and prevention.
Prerequisites: MATH GR8209
MATH G8209
.
Prerequisites: Math GR8209.
Topics of linear and non-linear partial differential equations of second order, with particular emphasis to Elliptic and Parabolic equations and modern approaches.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission prior to registration.
This course will prepare graduate students in political science and economics who have completed their basic formal and quantitative training for the challenges and appeals of interdisciplinary research in political economy. Substantively, the course will focus on interest groups and political influence, which remains one of the broad areas of interest within the field. The main activities of special interest groups include lobbying, campaign contributions, direct mobilization of citizens, and providing information to the public. Clearly all of them have political significance, and we will study both theoretically and empirically the most significant channels of influence on policies, sometimes through the influence on elected officials (before or after the election) and sometimes through influence on bureaucrats. The topic should be of clear relevance for graduate students in American politics, comparative politics, political economy and public economics, and should complement well the other courses available in those four fields.