Reference page for Confounding/Interaction part of VHM 811 - Fall Semester 2008
Welcome here! - last updated 11/12-2008.
Schedule:
| Session | Date | Hours | Room | Topics | Material
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| 10a | Tue 4/11 | 1-4 | FL | Confounding | VER Sections 13.1-5+7-8
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| 10b | Wed 5/11 | 1-4 | FL/CL | Interaction | VER Section 13.9; Problems 13:7,1,6,3
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| 11a | Wed 12/11 | 1-4 | FL | Matching | VER Sections 13.6,10,11; Home2007:1-4
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| 12a | Tue 18/11 | 1-4 | FL/CL | (Review session) | Problems 13:9,2,10; Home2007:5-6; extra
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Legend for Room: FL = Faculty Lounge (room 504), CL = Computer Lab (room 225N)
Legend for Problems: italics=prepared problem for discussion in class
Links
- VER datasets
- Links to extra datasets (comma-separated files, to be imported into Stata
with the insheet command): Example
13.1, Problem 13.2, Problem 13.7, Stata 9 dataset for home assignment 2007
- Greenland,
Pearl & Robins (1999): Causal diagrams for epidemiological research
(UPEI access)
- Article on confounding from Encyclopedia of Biostatistics
(UPEI access)
- Article on collapsibility from Encyclopedia of Biostatistics
(UPEI access)
- Article on matching from Encyclopedia of Biostatistics
(UPEI access)
- Tu, Gunnell &
Gilthorpe (2008): Simpson's Paradox, Lord's Paradox, and Suppression Effects are the
same phenomenon - the reversal paradox
- Solutions to
Chapter 13 problems (from VER website)
- Extra do-files for Chapter 13 problems: Problem 13.2, Problem 13.7, Problems 13.9-10
- Extra problem on matching, Brief solution.
- Link to page for fall semester 2007
Contact
Henrik Stryhn, Department of Health Management, Atlantic Veterinary College,
phone: (902) 894-2847, fax: (902) 566-0823, e-mail: hstryhn@upei.ca.
Henrik Stryhn
(hstryhn@upei.ca)