ST790-002 Bayesian Biostatistics
Spring Session, 2010

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Date
Lecture coverage
Homework/Reading assignments

1

Jan 11

M

Class canceled

Read Chap.2

2

Jan 13

W

Overview of Bayeaisn approach
Examples: Binomial and Normal distributions

Read Sections 3.2,3.3,3.5,3.6 & 3.7
HW0: 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.7, 2.10 (submission optional)

3

Jan 18

M

No class

Holiday (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day); university closed

4

Jan 20

W

Bayesian Inference:
Point and Region estimation and Hypothesis testing

Read Sections 3.8, 3.12 & 3.13

5

Jan 25

M

Numerical Integration methods
A survey of numerical integration using R

R codes: Univariate case
R codes: Bivariate case

6

Jan 27

W

Non-inferiority trials for dichotomous data
(by guest lecturer: Muhtar Osman)

Read paper Osman and Ghosh (2010)
HW1: 3.1, 3.2 & 3.7

7

Feb 1

M

Monte Carlo Integration methods
A primer on MCMC (by Jeff Gill)

R codes: Univariate case

8

Feb 3

W

Introduction to WinBUGS

Read WinBUGS demo Slides (by S.A. Bashir)
HW2: 3.3, 3.4 & 3.5

9

Feb 8

M

Interface between R and WinBUGS

R codes: R2WinBUGS-logit (performs simulation study)
WinBUGS code: logitmodel

10

Feb 10

W

Sample size determination

Adcock (1997), The Statistician, pp.261-283
Pezeshk (2003), Statistical Methods in Medical Research, pp.489-504

11

Feb 15

M

Bayesian sample size determination

Read Joseph and Belise (1997), The Statistician, pp.209-226
R packages: SampleSizeMeans and SampleSizeProportions

12

Feb 17

W

Comparing Bayesian and Frequestist Tests

R codes: Compare power curves
R codes: Sample size calculations

13

Feb 22

M

Overview of Clinical Trials

Read Chap 6
Also read Chap.1 ST 520 Lecture Notes (Courtsey Drs. Zhang and Tsiatis)

14

Feb 24

W

Overview of Phase I-III trials

Read Chaps. 2 & 3 ST 520 Lecture Notes (Courtsey Drs. Zhang and Tsiatis)

15

Mar 1

M

Bayesian two-stage designs
Midterm project

R codes: Two stage designs

16

Mar 3

W

Meta analysis

WinBUGS code: Comparing 5-FU treatments

17

Mar 8

M

Survival anlysis in Phase III trails

Read Chap. 9 ST 520 Lecture Notes (Courtsey Drs. Zhang and Tsiatis)

18

Mar 10

W

Bayesian survival analysis

Midterm project due TODAY!
WinBUGS code: Fitting censored data models

19

Mar 15

M

No Class

Spring Break

20

Mar 17

W

No Class

Spring Break

21

Mar 22

M

Phase I Studies

Read Selected slides ST 520 Lecture Notes (Courtsey Drs. Zhang and Davidian)

22

Mar 24

W

Bayesian Dose-response curve fitting

Read Bailer et al. (2005)
WinBUGS code: Dose response models

23

Mar 29

M

Nonparametric Bayes methods to estimate response curve

Curtis and Ghosh (2010)
Bornkamp and Ickstadt (2009) Biometrics 65(1), 198–206

24

Mar 31

W

Complex Meta analysis

WinBUGS codes

25

Apr 5

M

Meta analysis for rare events

WinBUGS codes

26

Apr 7

W

Introduction to Cost effectiveness studies

Project Abstract due TODAY!

27

Apr 12

M

Parameteric approches

WinBUGS codes

28

Apr 14

W

Nonparametric approaches

WinBUGS codes

29

Apr 19

M

ROC Analysis

Fawcett (2006)
Gu, Ghoshal and Roy (2008)
Gu and Ghosal (2009)

30

Apr 21

W

Estimating Area Under the Curve (AUC)

Peng and Hall (1996)
WinBUGS code:AUC.odc

31

Apr 26

M

Review of Bayesian Biostatistics

Hess (2007)

32

Apr 28

W

Project Presentations

Eric Reyes: 1:30-1:55, Title: Bayesian Average Error Based Approaches to Sample Size Calculations for Hypothesis Testing
Phillip Schulte: 1:55-2:20, Title: Bayesian Modeling of Rare Event Data
Seung Shin: 2:20-2:45, Title: Maximum tolerance dose estimation using nonparametric Bayesian curve estimator with Bernstein polynomials

Last updated on: March 15, 2010