schedule fall, 2026
| Date | Topic/Reading | |
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| 3 Sep | Course introduction  (and see resources) |
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| 8 Sep | Tables → graphs: Gelman et al. (2002) |
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| 10 Sep | No class | |
| 15 Sep | Snow on Cholera (through pg 68, “New water supply of the Lambeth Company”) |
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| 17 Sep | Complete Snow on Cholera | |
| 22 Sep | Lipids and heart disease: Lipid Research Clinics Program (1984), part 2 | |
| 24 Sep | No class | |
| 29 Sep | Hormone replacement therapy: Hernán et al. (2008); Hoover (2008); Stampfer (2008); | |
| Prentice (2008); Hernán and Robins (2008); Willett et al. (2008) | ||
| 1 Oct | No class | |
| 6 Oct | Mammography: Berry (1998), Kopans and Halpern (1999) | |
| 8 Oct | No class | |
| 13 Oct | Propensity scores: Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983) | |
| 15 Oct | No class | |
| 20 Oct | Skin cancer: Wang et al. (2019) | |
| 22 Oct | No class | |
| 27 Oct | Statistical modeling: the two cultures Breiman (2001) | |
| 29 Oct | Statistical modeling (discussants) | |
| 3 Nov | fMRI p-values: Eklund et al. (2016) letters and reply |
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| 5 Nov | No class | |
| 10 Nov | 50 years of data science: Donoho (2017) (w/ discussion: ) |
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| 12 Nov | 50 years of data science (discussants) | |
| 17 Nov | False discovery rates: Benjamini and Hochberg (1995) |
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| 19 Nov | False discovery rates: Storey and Tibshirani (2003) |
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| 24 Nov | Bootstrap in regression: Freedman and Peters (1984) |
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| 26 Nov | No class | |
| 1 Dec | Gene set enrichment: Mootha et al. (2003) , Subramanian et al. (2005) |
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| 3 Dec | No class | |
| 8 Dec | Batch effects: Leek et al. (2010) |
Readings available at the course Canvas site.