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Master in Public Health (MPH)

School of Health & Life Sciences

Instructor : Md. Israt Rayhan (IsR)


Course Name (Code) : Data Management and Analysis (PBH 711, credit 3)
Email : [email protected]
Office : TBA
Office Hours : Tuesday 6:00-9:10 pm
Text book : Biostatistics: A Foundation for Analysis in the Health
Sciences, 10th Edition, Wayne W. Daniel, Chad L. Cross,
January 2013.

Course Description: The course introduces students with advanced biostatistics required in
public health. Linear simple regression analysis, binary, ordered, multinomial logistic
regression are discussed in this course in details with illustrations. Categorical data analysis
and clinical trials will also be discussed. Other topics include role of survival analysis is also
taught in this course. Course emphasizes underlying similarity of these methods, choice of the
right method for specific problems, common aspects of model construction, testing linearity
and other assumptions. This course will use computer software Stata.

Course Objectives: 1. To apply basic concepts of Biostatistics and randomness of data.


2. To acquaint the participants with probability and its laws.
3. To develop skills on probability and distributions.
4. To analyze generating functions and its application in real life data.

Grading: The final grade in this course will be determined by the marks earned by a participant
on a final exam, midterm exam and quiz. The relative weightings of these components towards
the final grade are as follows:

Midterm Exam 20% Exam date to be announced in class


Quiz (1 & 2) 20% Quiz dates are to be announced in class
Attendance 10%
Assignment/Lab 10%
work/Assessment
Presentation 10%
Final Exam 30% Exam date and place to be announced
by the Registrar’s office
Total 100%

The grading policy is as follows:

A 93 – 100 A- 90 – 92
B+ 87–89 B 83– 86 B- 80 – 82
C+ 77–79 C 73– 76 C- 70 –72
D+ 67 – 69 D 60 –66 F 0 –59
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Attendance Policy: Attendance at all classes is mandatory and is a NSU policy. Students
are expected to remain in class the entire period. This means that students must arrive on
time and stay until class is finished. Each student is responsible for all material covered
during his/her absence.

Cell Phone Policy : Students are not allowed to use any smart device or
phone/texting/email device during class period, test, or final.

Tentative lecture plan

1st week Review of Biostatistics I

2nd week Multiple regression, dummy. ANOVA

3rd week Introduction to Stata, Logistic regression: binary, ordered, multinomial. Quiz1

4th week Stata tutorial: data management, graph. Presentation topic selection.

5th week Stata tutorial: test of hypothesis, correlation, simple and multiple regression.
Quiz2

6th week Stata tutorial: logistic regression, test of association, goodness-of-fit test.
Assignment1

7th week Midterm test

8th week Survival analysis: time-to-event data, censoring, survival function, hazard rate.

9th week Survival analysis: mean survival time, Kaplan-Meier procedurę, proportional
hazard model. Assignment2

10th week Stata tutorial: survival analysis. Quiz3

11th week Stata tutorial: overall sylabus, review class.

12th week Presentation: review on published public health paper, explaining the results,
figures, statistical methods and findings.

13th week Final exam

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