Scott S. Emerson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington

Applied Biostatistics I
Introduction to the analysis of biomedical data. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis for discrete, continuous, and right censored random variables. Analytic methods based on elementary parametric and non-parametric models for one sample; two sample (independent and paired), stratified sample, and simple regression problems.

Times and Places
Lectures : MWF 9:30am - 10:20am HST 439
Disc AA : M 8:30am - 9:20am HST 473
Disc AC : Tu 8:30am - 9:20am HST 478
Disc AB : W 8:30am - 9:20am HST 473
Disc AA : F 8:30am - 9:20am HST 473

Syllabus and General Information
BIOST 517 Syllabus (pdf)

Information and Tutorials on Stata
Ordering Stata IC through Grad Plan
Prof. Jim Hughes’ Stata tutorials (requires UWnet ID)

R Materials
Functions for descriptive statistics (revised 20110930)      R source code      Help files

Supplemental Materials
Approach to analyzing a data set (pdf)
Use of Logarithmic Transformations (pdf)

Course Materials

Datasets