BIOS601 AGENDA: Monday November 19

Lecture: Confounding, and how to reduce its effect

• 0. Resources: Cochran / Anderson / JH article / Rothman2002, Walker (epi)
• 1. Confounding - definition, examples
• 2. Reducing it by...
  • matching / stratification / standardization
  • statistical modelling

Lab

• Time-variations in rates of dog-bites
  
• Text entry on iPhone and yourPhone
• A biostatistician in a cancer institute