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Lectures 1-4 Flashcards

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Frequent Statistics

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What is the probability of a wrong decision about the treatment effect?
►What should we conclude from the observed data given a specified null hypothesis?

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Bayesian Statistics

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What should we believe about the treatment effect given the data that are observed?

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Likelihood Inference

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What is the evidence about the treatment effect given the data that are observed?

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Biostatistics

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The science of learning from biomedical data involving appreciable variability or uncertainty
The application of statistical reasoning and methods to the solution of biological, medical, and public health problems
►The scientific use of quantitative information to describe or draw inferences about natural phenomena
►Scientific—accepted theory (ideas) and practice; ethical standards
►Quantitative information—data reflecting variation in populations
►Inference—to conclude or surmise from evidence
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Generate hypotheses

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Ask questions

►Falsifiable

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Design and conduct studies to generate evidence

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Collect data

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Descriptive statistics

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Describe the distributions of observations

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Statistical inference

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Assess strength of evidence in favor of competing hypotheses
►Use data to update beliefs and make decisions
Also known as confirmatory data analysis (CDA)
►Draw conclusions about a population (whole group; true mechanism) from a sample (representative part of a group; “trials”)
►Assess strength of evidence in support of competing hypotheses
►Make comparisons
►Make decisions
►Make predictions

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Design of a Study

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Ask a precise, testable, and appropriatequestion
►Choose a research approach and design
►Define outcome of interest
►Define comparison groups
►Choose a population to study
►Implementation—collect data
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Descriptive Statistics / Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)

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Organization and summarization of data
►Graphical display to visualize important patterns and variation
►Hypothesis generating

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Explanations

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hypotheses about mechanisms

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Variable

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a characteristic taking on different values

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Simple

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scientists prefer simple, rather than complex, explanations
►Occam’s razor
►Principle of parsimony

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Interrelationships

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associations; causal connections

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Variable

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a characteristic taking on different values

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Random variable

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a variable for which the values obtained are usually thought of as arising partly as a result of chance factors

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Response variable (𝒀)

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the outcome measure; that which may be affected or caused; often a health measure

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Explanatory variables (𝑿)—

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those that affect or cause the response:
►Treatment (intervention)—explanatory variable that can be controlled by the scientist
►Risk factors—explanatory variables that influence the risk of the outcome; of scientific interest (e.g., smoking, salt intake, environment) and usually cannot be controlled

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Quantitative

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concept of amount; numerical

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Discrete variables

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gaps in values; e.g., number of births, number of drinks per week

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Continuous variables

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no gaps in values; e.g., blood pressure, age, height, time to seroconversion

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Special case

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time-to-event data in which we need to deal with “censoring”

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Qualitative

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concept of attribute; categorical

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Nominal scale

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Binary or dichotomous—e.g., disease status (diseased or not diseased), vital status (alive or dead)
●Polychotomous or polytomous—e.g., occupation, marital status

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Ordinal or ordered scale

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e.g., ratings, preferences

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Variation

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refers to the differences among a set of measurements

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Natural variation

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differences among persons (experimental units) in the “true” values of the variable of interest

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Measurement variation (or error)

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differences between the measured and true values

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Bias

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difference between the average (expected) value of a measurement (variable) and the true value that it targets

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Variance

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variation among measurements about their average or mean value, even if that mean differs from the true targeted value

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Mean Squared Error

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MSE= variance + bias^2

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Cause

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something that brings about an effect or result

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Confounder

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another variable (𝑋𝑋2) that needs to be taken into account when assessing the true association between the risk factor 𝑋𝑋1and the outcome 𝑌𝑌
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Effect modifier—

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another variable (𝑋𝑋2) that identifies subgroups of individuals (units) across which the association between the risk factor 𝑋𝑋1and the outcome 𝑌𝑌will differ

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Inference

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Estimate the association between the outcome of mortality and treatment, and characterize the estimate’s uncertainty

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Prediction

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Best predict the outcome of mortality on the basis of available data of treatment and other factors, and characterize the prediction’s accuracy

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Experimental studies

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control allocation of “treatment” to subjects (experimental units)

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Laboratory studies:

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control variation (e.g., effect of pesticide on rate of mutations in rat pups)

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Clinical trials

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randomize to produce groups with similar observed and unobserved characteristics; average over rather than control variation (e.g., compare two treatments to reduce blood pressure)

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Observational studies

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do not control allocation of “treatment” to subjects (experimental units)

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Frequency

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the count(frequency) of the number of individuals in a particular group

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Empirical distribution function

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a frequency distribution which describes an observed set of values of a variable

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Cumulative frequency

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the count (frequency) of the number of individuals in a particular age group or lower age group
►That is, the cumulative count
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Relative frequency

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the proportion of individuals in a particular age group = the count (frequency) of the number of individuals in a particular age group divided by the overall total

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Cumulative relative frequency

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the cumulative proportion of individuals in a particular age group or any lower age group

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Range

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difference between largest and smallest values

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Variance

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“average” of the squared differences of observations from the sample mean
𝑠𝑠2=Σi=1n(xi−𝑥𝑥)2𝑛𝑛−1

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Standard deviation

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𝑠𝑠=𝑠𝑠2. square root of variance

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Stats terminology

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Upper hinge =𝑄𝑄3
►Median=𝑄𝑄2
►Lower hinge=𝑄𝑄1
►Interquartile range (IQR)= 𝑄𝑄3−𝑄𝑄1
●Contains the middle 50% of the observations
►Whiskers: lines drawn to the smallest and largest actual observations within the calculated fences

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fences

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Fences are notobserved data points
►Fences are calculated to provide guidelines for identifying outliers
►𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑈𝑓𝑓𝑒 𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒 =𝑢𝑢𝑝 𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝𝑝 ℎ𝑖𝑖𝑖 𝑖𝑖𝑖 +1.5∗𝐼𝐼𝐼 𝐼𝐼=𝑄𝑄3+1.5∗𝐼𝐼𝐼 𝐼𝐼
►𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿 𝑓𝑓𝑒 𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒 =𝑙𝑙𝑜 𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑖𝑖 𝑖𝑖𝑖 −1.5∗𝐼𝐼𝐼 𝐼𝐼=𝑄𝑄1−1.5∗𝐼𝐼𝐼 𝐼𝐼

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outliers

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Outliers are actual observed data values falling beyond the calculated fences (higher or lower)

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Positively skewed:

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more lower values, sparse higher values
►Also: long “tail” of higher values
►Also: mean > median > mode

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Negatively skewed

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reverse of positively skewed

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Symmetric

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not skewed in either direction

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Outlying values

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Values that are “far” from most values

►Importance: a few outlying values can strongly influence certain statistical summary measures and analyses

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arithmetic scale

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each increment represents change by a constant amount

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logarithmic scale

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each increment represents change by a constant multiplier

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Probability

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provides a measure of the uncertainty associated with the occurrence of events

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Outcome

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exactly the experiment result

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Event

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specific way(s) the experiment can turn out

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mutually exclusive

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Two events, A and B, are mutually exclusive if the events cannot occur together

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statistically independent

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Two events, A and B, are statistically independent if the probability of A occurring is not influenced by the presence or absence of B

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conditional probability

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𝑃𝑃(𝐴𝐴|𝐵𝐵)=𝑃𝑃𝐴𝐴and𝐵𝐵/𝑃𝑃𝐵𝐵, where 𝑃𝑃𝐵𝐵≠0
(Vertical bar | = “given”)
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statistically independent

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𝑃𝑃(𝐴𝐴|𝐵𝐵)=𝑃𝑃(𝐴𝐴)

►That is, the probability of 𝐴𝐴occurring is not influenced by the presence or absence of 𝐵𝐵

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Joint probability

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“and”𝑃𝑃𝐴𝐴and𝐵𝐵

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Multiplication rule

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From conditional probability, we can write the joint probability as …

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mutually exclusive

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Two outcomes or events are mutually exclusive if and only if the probability of their joint outcome equals zero

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statistically independent

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Two outcomes or events are statistically independent if and only if the probability of their joint outcome equals the product of the probabilities of occurrence of each outcome

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Probability distributions

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a complete listing of the probabilities for every possible value of a random variable

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Binomial

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two possible outcomes
►Underlies much of statistical applications to epidemiology
►Basic model for logistic regression

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Poisson

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uses counts of events or rates

►Basis for log-linear and survival models

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Gaussian (normal) bell-shaped curve

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means are normally distributed or approximately normally distributed

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Exponential

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useful in describing times to events and population growth

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Counting techniques

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Factorial
►Permutations
►Combinations

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Factorial

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𝑛𝑛factorial” = number of possible arrangements (orderings) of n objects
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Notation: “𝑛𝑛factorial” =𝑛𝑛!

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Permutation

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ordered arrangement of 𝑛𝑛objects taken 𝑟𝑟at a time

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Combination

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a selection of 𝑛𝑛objects taken 𝑟𝑟at a time without regard to order

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Poisson

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Describes the totally random (haphazard) occurrences of events in time or objects in space

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