Schedule
| Lectures | |||
| Tuesday | 14:00 - 15:30 | K7 | |
| Exercise Class | |||
| Tuesday | 17:20 - 18:50 | K6 | (Instructor: Martin Otava) |
Course Materials
- Lecture notes (last updated March 4, 2022)
- Slides on clinical trials, part 1
- Slides on clinical trials, part 2
- Slides on clinical trials, part 3
- Clinical trial protocol contents (example)
- Example clinical trial protocol is available in the SIS module Předměty (only for students enrolled in the course, requires login)
- Presentation on data sampling mechanisms
Progress of lectures
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Friday Feb. 23.
Introduction. Basic
epidemiologic terms. Left truncated data. Empirical incidence
estimates.
Course notes, Sec. 1.1-1.4, pp. 6-10.
Supplementary reading: Esteve, Benhamou, Raymond (Chap. 1, pp. 1-15).
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Friday Mar. 1.
Age-specific
incidence, age-standardized incidence, cumulative incidence.
Exposure-disease associations: Excess risk, relative risk.
Course notes, Sec. 1.4-1.6, pp. 11-14.
Supplementary reading: Esteve, Benhamou, Raymond (Chap. 2, pp. 49-62). BD1 (Sec. 2.1-2.4, pp. 42-59).
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Tuesday Mar. 5.
Exposure-disease
associations. Introduction to epidemiological study design. Odds ratio
estimation and testing.
Course notes, Sec. 1.6-2.1, pp. 15-20.
Supplementary reading: BD1 (Sec. 2.8, pp. 69-73, Sec. 4.3, pp. 129-136).
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Tuesday Mar. 12.
Exact inference on
odds ratio via conditional likelihood. Confounding in
epidemiological studies.
Course notes, Sec. 2.2-2.5, pp. 20-26.
Supplementary reading: BD1 (Sec. 4.2, pp. 124-129, Sec. 3.1-3.4, pp. 85-99).
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Tuesday March 19.
Sources of bias in
epidemiological studies.
Course notes, Sec. 2.5, pp. 26-28.
Supplementary reading: BD1 (Sec. 3.4, pp. 103-115).
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Tuesday March 26.
Analysis of
stratified case-control studies: classical methods. Logistic regression for
stratified case-control studies.
Course notes, Sec. 3.1-3.3, pp. 29-36.
Supplementary reading: BD1 (Sec. 4.4, pp. 136-146, Sec. 6.1-6.5, pp. 193-213).
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Tuesday Apr 2.
Analysis of
matched case-control studies: classical methods. Conditional
logistic regression for matched case-control studies.
Course notes, Sec. 4.1-4.3, pp. 37-43.
Supplementary reading: BD1, (Sec. 5.2, pp. 164-166, Sec. 7.1-7.4, pp. 248-268).
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Tuesday Apr. 9.
Analysis of
cohort studies: ungrouped and grouped data.
Course notes, Sec. 5.1-5.3, pp. 45-52.
Supplementary reading: BD2, (Chap. 5, pp. 178-197, Chap. 3, pp. 82–91, Chap. 4, pp. 120–171).
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Tuesday Apr. 16.
Discrete Cox
model. Diagnostic tests.
Course notes, Sec. 5.4, 6.1–6.4 pp. 53-63.
- Tuesday Apr. 23. Presentation on healthy adherer bias in influenza vaccine studies.
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Tuesday Apr. 30.
Drug development
process. Phases of clinical trials. Phase III trials:
protocol, objectives.
Supplementary reading: FFD (Chap. 1, pp. 1-14, Chap. 3, pp. 37-51).
Textbooks
- [EBR] Esteve J, Benhamou E, Raymond L. Statistical Methods in Cancer Research, Vol. IV: Descriptive Epidemiology. International Agency for Research on Cancer: Lyon, 1994.
- [BD1] Breslow NE, Day NE. Statistical Methods in Cancer Research, Vol. I: The analysis of case-control studies. International Agency for Research on Cancer: Lyon, 1980.
- [BD2] Breslow NE, Day NE. Statistical Methods in Cancer Research, Vol. II: The design and analysis of cohort studies. International Agency for Research on Cancer: Lyon, 1987.
- [FFD] Friedman LM, Furberg CD, DeMets DL. Fundamentals of Clinical Trials. 4th Ed., Springer: New York, 2010.
Course Plan
We will learn statistical methods used in medicine, especially in epidemiology and clinical trials. Terminology specific to medical applications will be explained and some specialized methods will be covered. We will review study designs used in medical studies (cohort study, case-control study, randomized controlled trial) and explain how to analyze each of them. Ethical and administrative aspects of human experiments and their impact on handling statistical issues will be discussed.
Prerequisites
This course assumes advanced knowledge of statistical theory and practice, especially linear regression, logistic regression, loglinear models, survival analysis. Master students of "Probability, statistics and econometrics" must have completed the course on Linear Regression (NMSA407), Advanced Regression Models (NMST432), and Censored Data Analysis (NMST531) before enrolling in this course.