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.
Prerequisites: Public Health P6103 or P6104 and P6400 or their equivalents. A thorough study of the fourfold table, with applications to epidemiological and clinical studies. Significance versus magnitude of association; estimation of relative risk; matching cases and controls; effects, measurement, and control of misclassification error; combining evidence from many studies.
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.
Advanced course in interdisciplinary topics in statistics taught by eminent visitors. Doctoral students, faculty, and visitors from departments other than statistics are welcome.
Advanced course in probability theory taught by eminent visitors. Doctoral students, faculty, and visitors from departments other than statistics are welcome.
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: the doctoral program adviser's permission.
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