ST 520 course

Statistical Principles of Clinical Trials and Epidemiology (ST 520), Fall 2007

Office: Tutorial Room 9 Patterson
Office hours: 10:00-11:00am, Wed
E-mail: ejkalend@ncsu.edu

Some important materials for ST 520 course, Fall 2007 (Aug. 22 - Dec. 18).

View or download syllabus.
An R manual from Dr. Dennis Boos. Please read lab 2 about plotting. An example for plotting a piece-wise function.
Lecture notes: 520 lecture notes.
Slides used in class: 520 slides.
Some R programs used on slides.
Non-centrality parameter table (ps file, pdf file)
A paper by Wang and Tsiatis (Biometrics, 1987) on group sequential trials.
A power point presentation on randomization by Mr. Suraj P Anand. click here.
Homework Assignment
Midterm Exam: Tuesday, 10/9/2007, 8:00-10:00am

Final Exam (comprehensive): Tuesday, 12/18/2007, 8:00-11:00am. Exam schedule can be found here.

The final exam will be based on the entire course covered in the class. The final grades can be found on web.

If you want to learn more about Pharmacokinetics, please surf this site.

You can download software for designing phase II trials using Simon's two-stage design from this site under software.

Nuremberg Code and Helsinki Declaration on medical experiments.

The Hippocratic Oath and related information.

Protocol from Women's Health Initiative.

Useful links on clinical trials.

Check out the Grading scale.

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