Reference page for Confounding/Interaction part of VHM 811 - Fall Semester 2009
Welcome here! - last updated 12/12-2009.
Schedule:
| Session | Date | Hours | Room | Topics | Material
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| 10a | Tue 10/11 | 1-4 | FL | Confounding | VER2 Sections 13.1-2, 13.5, 13.6.1
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| 10b | Fri 13/11 | 9-12 | TL/CL | Interaction | VER2 Section 13.6.2; Problems 13:7,1,6,3
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| 11a | Tue 17/11 | 1-4 | FL | Matching | VER2 Sections 13.3, 13.10, 13.11; Home2007:1-4
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| 11b | Fri 20/11 | 9-12 | TL/CL | (Review session) | Problems 13:9,2,10; Exam 2007; extra
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Legend for Room: FL = Faculty Lounge (room 504), TL = Teaching Lab (room 1003N), CL = Computer Lab (room 225N)
Legend for Problems: italics=prepared problem for discussion in class
Links
- Syllabus for Chapter 13
- VER datasets (Stata 9 format, description of datasets): calf, feedlot, nocardia, pig_adg
- Links to extra datasets (comma-separated files, to be imported into Stata
with the insheet command): Example
13.1, Problem 13.2, Problem 13.7, Final 2007
- Greenland,
Pearl & Robins (1999): Causal diagrams for epidemiological research
(UPEI access)
- Article on confounding from Encyclopedia of Biostatistics
(UPEI access)
- Article on collapsibility from Encyclopedia of Biostatistics
(UPEI access)
- Article on matching from Encyclopedia of Biostatistics
(UPEI access)
- Article on propensity scores from Encyclopedia of Biostatistics
(UPEI access)
- Solutions to Chapter 13 problems
- Extra do-files for Chapter 13 problems: Problem 13.2,
Problem 13.7, Problems 13.9-10
- Extra problem on matching, Brief solution.
- Link to page for Fall semester 2007
- Link to page for Fall semester 2008
Contact
Henrik Stryhn, Department of Health Management, Atlantic Veterinary College,
phone: (902) 894-2847, fax: (902) 566-0823, e-mail: hstryhn@upei.ca.
Henrik Stryhn
(hstryhn@upei.ca)