Date

Section

Topic

Time

Reading

Team

1/15/98

Introduction

Organizational Meeting

2:30

1/22/98

Basics and Reviews

Concepts and Justifications

1:30-3:00

Singer and Willet

1(M)

1/29/98

Lifetables and Log-Rate Models

1:30-3:00

Laird and Oliver

2(X)

2/5/98

Cox’s Proportional Hazards Model

1:30-3:00

Wu

3(X)

2/12/98

Discrete-Time Models

1:30-3:00

Singer and Willet

4(M)

2/19/98

Heterogeneity

Effects of Heterogeneity

1:30-3:00

Vaupel and Yashin

2(X)

2/26/98

Correlated Outcomes

1:30-3:00

Lilliard

3/5/98

Spring Break

3/10/98

Presentation by Professor Larry Wu, University of Wisconsin on "Family Change and Early Sexual Initiation"

2:00-4:00

3/12/98

Frailty Model I:
Econometric Approach (Vaupel, Heckman and Singer)

1:30-3:00

Trussell and Richards

3(X)

3/19/98

Frailty Model II:
Genetic Approach (Vaupel, Yashin, et al.)

1:30-3:00

Yashin and Iachine

3/24/98

Advanced Topics

Confounding by Time Dependent Covariates

1:30-3:00

Robins

1(M)

3/26/98

Causality

1:30-3:00

Robins

4/7/98

Presentation by Dr. Lee Lilliard, RAND

2:00-4:00

4(M)

4/9/98

Presentation by Professor James Robins, Harvard University

2:00-4:00

4/16/98

Applications (Witteman et al.)

1:30-3:00

Witteman et al.