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MEBI 537, Win, 2014

Assignment Calendar:

Week Topic Reading assignments Slides
Written
assignments
Session leads
Jan 6

Jan 8
Intro & Motivation
Epistemology


Stokes - Ch 1
lec. 1

lec.2
 
Jan 13


Jan 15
Epistemology & Literature search
Study design, RCTs
Research proposals
Stokes - Ch 3
<+ your selected article>


Anderson
Study Design 101
Del Fiol, Cimino (full paper)
lec.3


lec.4


Jan 20

Jan 22
MLK Holiday

Specific Aims
No Class

STARE-HI standard
Saleem et al
Kibbon et al


lec. 5
No Class


Ahmad
Laura
Jan 27



Jan 29

Causality, study design and bias
Specific Aims
Hartman tutorial--sources of bias
Were-Mamlin (2010)




lec. 6
Specific Aims




Marea/Ross



Maher/Nathalie
Feb 3





Data management



One article showing bias
- Taylor et al - MIBBI project
 - MIAME standard (optional but recommended)
- Watch Redcap training videos 1, 3-6, and 8 (video2 is optional)


lec. 8
Choose one source of bias; read and bring to class one study or journal article demonstrating this bias.
Whitney/Justin




Feb 5
Statistics
Read:
Stats tutorial part A
Wyatt & Wyatt
Skim only:
Ammenwerth
Friedman & Wyatt
lec. 9
Specific Aims v. 2
Karam/Sean
Feb 10



Statistics, continued


 
Amarasingham article
Stats tutorial part B
lec.10
Quiz



Ahmad/Ross



Feb 12
Statistics, continued

 
Richesson
Han et al (for class review)
lec.11
Proposal: Background & significance sections
Marea/Nathalie
Feb 19




Review R tutorial
Review Stats tutorials A & B above
(one reading for review - to be posted)
lec.12





Maher/Justin




Feb 24
Evaluation and Qualitative research Begley article (for class review)
Forsythe and Buchannan
Kaplan and Maxwell
lec.13








Whitney/Sean
Feb 26


Statistics, continued
lec.14 Research proposal - methods section
Mar 3
Modeling and simulation guest lecture:
Susie Cassels
Anderson
Anderson & Hunt (for class review)


Karam/Ahmad
Mar 5



Quiz 2
Mar 10

Statistics guest lecture: Ian Painter


Final research proposal

Mar 12
Research ethics and IRB

Course wrap-up


Meta analysis reading 1, 2
lec.18

 

Last Updated:
 Mar 2, 2014

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