schedule fall, 2025
| Date | Topic/Reading | |
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| 4 Sep | Course introduction  (and see resources) |
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| 9 Sep | Tables → graphs: Gelman et al. (2002) |
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| 11 Sep | No class | |
| 16 Sep | Snow on Cholera (through pg 68, “New water supply of the Lambeth Company”) |
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| 18 Sep | Complete Snow on Cholera | |
| 23 Sep | Lipids and heart disease: Lipid Research Clinics Program (1984), part 2 | |
| 25 Sep | No class | |
| 30 Sep | Hormone replacement therapy: Hernán et al. (2008); Hoover (2008); Stampfer (2008); | |
| Prentice (2008); Hernán and Robins (2008); Willett et al. (2008) | ||
| 2 Oct | No class | |
| 7 Oct | Mammography: Berry (1998), Kopans and Halpern (1999) | |
| 9 Oct | No class | |
| 14 Oct | Propensity scores: Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983) | |
| 16 Oct | No class | |
| 21 Oct | Skin cancer: Wang et al. (2019) | |
| 23 Oct | No class | |
| 28 Oct | Statistical modeling: the two cultures Breiman (2001) | |
| 30 Oct | Statistical modeling (discussants) | |
| 4 Nov | fMRI p-values: Eklund et al. (2016) letters and reply |
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| 6 Nov | No class | |
| 11 Nov | 50 years of data science: Donoho (2017) (w/ discussion: ) |
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| 13 Nov | 50 years of data science (discussants) | |
| 18 Nov | False discovery rates: Benjamini and Hochberg (1995) |
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| 20 Nov | False discovery rates: Storey and Tibshirani (2003) |
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| 25 Nov | Bootstrap in regression: Freedman and Peters (1984) |
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| 27 Nov | No class | |
| 2 Dec | Gene set enrichment: Mootha et al. (2003) , Subramanian et al. (2005) |
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| 4 Dec | No class | |
| 9 Dec | Batch effects: Leek et al. (2010) |
Readings available at the course Canvas site.