Do you conduct/review studies? Coming up soon are these 4 online courses from Statistics.com covering some key topics -
1) May 18 - Jun 15: "Sample Size and Power Determination" covers how to plan the appropriate sample size and calculate power for a study, striking the optimal balance of feasible sample size, reasonable assumptions, and acceptable power. The instructor, Thomas P. Ryan is the author of "Modern Experimental Design," other classic texts, numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals, and is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, American Society for Quality, and Royal Statistical Society.
2) May 18 - Jun 15: "Advanced Survival Analysis" extends the Cox proportional hazards model to (a) recurrent events and (b) competing risks, covers parametric survival models and frailty models, and compares parametric vs. semi-parametric techniques for modeling time-to-event data. The instructor, Matthew Strickland is an epidemiologist with the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the Centers for Disease Control.
3) May 25 - Jun 22: "Biostatistics in R: Clinical Trials Applications" shows you how to use R to compare treatments, incorporate covariates into the analysis, analyze survival trials, model longitudinal data, and analyze bioequivalence trials. Co-instructor Din Chen is a professor at the University of Rochester School of Nursing and also in the School of Medicine and Dentistry (Biostatistics and Computational Biology). Co-instructor Karl E. Peace is the Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar, founding director of the Center for Biostatistics, and professor of biostatistics in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University.
4) Jun 1 - Jul 6 "Epidemiologic Statistics" introduces the underlying concepts and methods of epidemiology. Topics covered
include: study designs (clinical trials, cohort studies, case-control studies, and cross-sectional studies), measures of disease frequency and treatment impact, and how to control for external factors. Instructor David Kleinbaum (Emory University) designed this course and is the author of "Activ-Epi," the multi-media text on which the course is based, as well as "Epidemiologic Research - Principles and Quantitative Methods" and other texts. Mildred Maisonet, the co-instructor leading this session, teaches in the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health Dept. of Epidemiology, and collaborates on research with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Participants will interact with instructors via a private discussion forum throughout the course; there are no set hours when you must be online. We estimate you will need about 15 hours per week.
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