STAT 437

Statistical Methods for Life History Analysis

Administrative Information

  1. Course Outline - PDF Version
  2. STAT 437 - Lectures Overview

Assignments and Solutions

  1. Assignment 1 (Solution)
  2. Assignment 2 (Solution)
  3. Assignment 3 (Solution)
  4. Midterm Test (Solution)
  5. Paper Review Assignment
  6. Final Project

Helper Code and Supplementary Notes

  1. Quasi-Likelihood Theory in Full (Supplementary Notes)
  2. data_import_helper.R
  3. helper_functions.R

Lecture Videos, Slides, Notes, and Code

  1. (Lecture 001) Welcome to STAT 437
  2. (Lecture 002) What are longitudinal data?
  3. (Lecture 003) Exploring Longitudinal Data (Application)
  4. (Lecture 004) Notation for Longitudinal Data (Theory)
  5. (Lecture 005) What is Linear Regression (Review; Theory)
  6. (Lecture 006) Continuous Longitudinal Data: Why Can’t we Just Use Regression? (Linear Marginal Models)
  7. (Lecture 007) Linear Marginal Models: Likelihood, Inference, and Asymptotics (Theory)
  8. (Lecture 008) Linear Marginal Models: Implementation in R (Application)
  9. (Lecture 009) What are generalized linear models? (Review; Theory)
  10. (Lecture 010) Marginal Models: Accommodating non-continuous outcomes
  11. (Lecture 011) M-Estimation: A Practicing Statistician’s Best Friend (Conceptual, Theory, and Application)
  12. (Lecture 012) Generalized Estimating Equations: Estimating parameters from Marginal Models
  13. (Lecture 013) Generalized Estimating Equations: Examples of GEEs (Theory)
  14. (Lecture 014) Generalized Estimating Equations: Details of Asymptotic Inference (Theory)
  15. (Lecture 015) Generalized Estimating Equations: COVID-19 Example
  16. (Lecture 016) Generalized Estimating Equations: Epilepsy Trial Example
  17. (Lecture 017) From the Population to the Individual: Mixed Effects Models
  18. (Lecture 018) Linear Mixed Effects Models
  19. (Lecture 019) Linear Mixed Effects Models (Theory)
  20. (Lecture 020) Variance Testing Considerations: Constrained LRT
  21. (Lecture 021) Linear Mixed Effects Models (Application)
  22. (Lecture 022) Transition Models for Longitudinal Data
  23. (Lecture 023) Transition Models (Theory)
  24. (Lecture 024) Transition Models (Application)
  25. (Lecture 025) Handling Missing Data in Longitudinal Models
  26. (Lecture 026) Handling Missing Data in Longitudinal Models - MCAR, NMAR, and Likelihood Techniques
  27. (Lecture 027) Handling Missing Data in Longitudinal Models - Imputation and Weighting
  28. (Lecture 028) Recap of Longitudinal Methods
  29. (Lecture 029) Introduction to Time-to-Event Data
  30. (Lecture 030) Quantities of Interest for Survival Analysis
  31. (Lecture 031) Discrete Time to Event Data
  32. (Lecture 032) Discrete Time to Event Data (Theory)
  33. (Lecture 033) Discrete Time to Event Data Exploration (Application)
  34. (Lecture 034) Logistic Regression and Proportional Odds Models
  35. (Lecture 035) Logistic Regression and Proportional Odds Models (Application)
  36. (Lecture 036) Introduction to Continuous Time Survival Analysis
  37. (Lecture 037) Continuous Time Survival Analysis, Likelihood Construction (Theory)
  38. (Lecture 038) Location Scale Family Distributions, with log-linear Regression (Theory)
  39. (Lecture 039) Continuous Time Regression Models using Survreg (Application)
  40. (Lecture 040) Accelerated Failure Time Models
  41. (Lecture 041) Accelerated Failure Time Models (Theory)
  42. (Lecture 042) Accelerated Failure Time Models (Application)
  43. (Lecture 043) Proportional Hazards Models
  44. (Lecture 044) Proportional Hazards Models (Theory)
  45. (Lecture 045) Proportional Hazards Models (Application)

Data Files

To save these data files, right-click and save as. The data are presented for educational purposes only. Sources for the data are available in the data_import_helper.R script, and data should be used only to follow along with the relevant lectures. Any use of this data beyond these purposes needs to be cleared with the data owners.

File Name Modified
DogOwners.csv 7/4/23
Korea Income and Welfare.csv 7/4/23
TLC.csv 7/4/23
TLC_mar.csv 7/4/23
air_pollution.csv 7/4/23
air_pollution_NMAR.csv 7/4/23
aml.csv 7/4/23
customer_churn.csv 7/4/23
dental.csv 7/4/23
gold_medal_instagram.csv 7/4/23
job_code_table.csv 7/4/23
mort.csv 7/4/23
oasis_longitudinal.csv 7/4/23
ontario_by_phu.csv 7/4/23
pasta_sales.csv 7/4/23
schoolgirls.csv 7/4/23
seizures_full.csv 7/4/23
seizures_mcar.csv 7/4/23
stroke.csv 7/4/23
teachers.csv 7/4/23
wallstreet_sentiment.csv 7/4/23
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