BSTT 602 : ADVANCED BIOSTATISTICS

This course is primarily intended for the students who have attended the Semester 1 course in Methods in Biostatistics, and are familiar with Stata and who wish to acquire further skills in the analysis and interpretation of epidemiological studies.  The emphasis is on the practical application of methods, with a brief introduction to likelihood theory, which provides the theoretical basis for most of the statistical methods covered in this module. Topics include: 1) Likelihood theory, 2) Logistic regression for the analysis of binary outcome data, 3) Poisson regression for analysis of count data, and 4) introduction to survival analysis.