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Instructor |
Dipankar Bandyopadhyay
Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics,
Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology
135 Cannon Street, Suite 305 E
Medical University of South Carolina
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Class Schedule |
Tuesday, Thursday
1.30 PM - 3.00 PM
Cannon Place, Room # 304 (DB2E Conference Room)
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Office Hours |
Thursdays 3.00 PM - 4.00 PM, or by appointment |
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Required Texts |
A. Agresti: Categorical Data Analysis, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 2002

D.
Kleinbaum & M. Klein: Logistic Regression: A self-learning text, 2nd
Edition, Springer, 2002

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General Class Outline and Reading Blocks
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- Introduction (Agresti Chapter 1)
- Contingency Tables (Agresti Chapters 2, 3)
- Generalized Linear Models (Agresti Chapter 4, Kleinbaum & Klien Chapters
4)
- Logistic Regression (Kleinbaum & Klien Chapters 1 - 3, Agresti Chapter
5)
- Model Building Strategies (Agresti Chapter 6, Kleinbaum & Klien Chapters
6 & 7)
- Logit Models for Multinomial Responses (Agresti Chapter 7, Kleinbaum &
Klien Chapters 9 & 10)
- Log-linear Models (Agresti Chapter 8)
- Models for Matched and Correlated Data (Agresti Chapters 10, 11, Kleinbaum
& Klien Chapters 8, 11 - 13)
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Grading |
- Homework sets and class participation (30% total)
- Two midterm exams (20% each) Midterm Exam 2
Data (Problem1)
- Final
exam (30%): Inclass May 2 (Wed, 11.30AM-12.30AM)
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* Printing instruction: The PDF files can
be printed more than one slide to a page by accessing the advanced printer
options on your printer (not all printers are capable, but the photocopiers are)
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