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PROGRAM IN ADVANCED STATISTICAL STUDIES

Biostatistics (controlled trials)

Program Registration Fee: $495, plus individual course enrollment fees.

About this Program: This program is aimed at those designing clinical trials, or analyzing the data from those trials, as well as those contemplating working in such a position. It is suitable for those working in pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, contract research organizations (CRO's), and government and non-profit medical research agencies.

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Prerequisite: You must have taken the equivalent of statistics.com's courses Introduction to Statistics 1, 2, and 3.

Estimated Core Course Tuition: $4428
Estimated Electives Course Tuition: $1480
Program Registration Fee: $495
Estimated Total Cost: $6403

The individual courses are payable as you register for each course or may be prepaid. Tuition and fees do not include the purchase of required course texts.


Core Courses (All required)

Biostatistics 2
This course covers clinical trial designs including randomized controlled trials, ROC curves, CI and tests for relative risk and odds ratio, and an introduction to survival analysis.
Tuition: $369 (1 CEUs)
Next dates available:
- March 12, 2010
- September 10, 2010

Clinical Trial Safety Monitoring

Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- February 05, 2010

Clinical Trials-Practicum 2 (Drug Trials)
This course provides additional practical work with actual clinical trial data.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- March 26, 2010

Clinical Trials - Practicum 1
In this course you will apply the principles of of designing and analyzing data in clinical trials on actual cases and cover pharmacokinetics (PK) and dose-response modeling.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- February 12, 2010

Introduction to Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials
This course covers the basic statistical principles in the design and analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- June 25, 2010

Sample Size and Power Determination
This course shows you how to make power and sample size determination for experiments, surveys and long-term trials.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- November 27, 2009
- May 14, 2010

Logistic Regression
Logistic regression extends ordinary least squares (OLS) methods to model data with binary (yes/no, success/failure) outcomes. Rather than directly estimating the value of the outcome, logistic regression allows you to estimate the probability of a success or failure.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- March 12, 2010
- September 10, 2010

Categorical Data Analysis 1
This course will cover the analysis of contingency table data (tabular data in which the cell entries represent counts of subjects or items falling into certain categories). Topics include tests for independence (comparing proportions as well as chi-square), exact methods, and treatment of ordered data. Both 2-way and 3-way tables are covered.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- April 09, 2010
- October 01, 2010

Survival Analysis
The course describes the various methods used for modeling and evaluating survival data, or time-to event data.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- March 26, 2010
- September 24, 2010

Avoiding Selection Bias in Randomized Clinical Trials
This course covers the essential concepts required to design rigorous randomized trials so as to ensure valid treatment comparisons.
Tuition: $369 (1 CEUs)
Next dates available:
- September 17, 2010

Biostatistics 1
This course covers the principal statistical concepts used in medical and health sciences. Basic concepts common to all statistical analysis are reviewed, and those concepts with specific importance in biostatistical are covered in detail.
Tuition: $369 (1 CEUs)
Next dates available:
- January 29, 2010
- August 06, 2010

Adaptive Designs for Clinical Trials
This course will teach you how to design, monitor and analyze clinical trials using statistically sound principles that incorporate interim looks at the data, possible early stopping, and interim re-estimation of power and required sample size. It covers group sequential designs and adaptive methods of sample-size re-estimation.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- April 16, 2010

Elective Courses (4 required)

Clinical Trial Safety Monitoring

Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- February 05, 2010

Advanced Logistic Regression
After taking this course, participants will be able to specify, implement and interpret the output of a variety of advanced logistic regression models not covered in the first course, "Logistic Regression."
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- To be Announced.

Introductory Bayesian Modeling via MCMC Techniques
This course covers the application of Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques (MCMC) to Bayesian statistical modeling using WINBUGS software.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- September 10, 2010
- March 12, 2010

Multivariate Statistics
This course covers key multivariate procedures such as classification, clustering, principal components and factor analysis.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- July 16, 2010
- February 19, 2010

Categorical Data Analysis 2
This course continues the analysis of categorical data, contains a review of logistic regression, and introduces multinomial responses for logistic regression, probit, logit and loglinear analysis.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- November 12, 2010
- May 14, 2010

Randomization, Permutation and Exact Tests
Online course in randomization (permutation) tests.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- April 24, 2010

Nonparametric Statistics
This course teaches you how to perform a range of nonparametric statistical analyses - robust procedures that do not assume that data are samples from prespecified families of distribution such as the normal or exponential.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- August 28, 2010
- February 05, 2010

Bootstrap Methods
This course covers the basic theory and application of the bootstrap family of procedures, with the emphasis on applications.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- September 24, 2010
- March 19, 2010

Bayesian Approaches to Clinical Trials
This course covers the essentials of Bayesian analysis in randomized clinical trials and the evaluation of medical interventions. We will discuss the distinctions between Bayesian analysis and the more traditional frequentist analysis, and the pros and cons of each approach.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- November 19, 2010

Missing Data Analysis
This course will cover the theory and practice of two modern methods of handling missing data: maximum likelihood and multiple imputation.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- To be Announced.

Modeling in R
This course will show you how to use R to create statistical models and use them to analyze data.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- October 22, 2010
- February 12, 2010

Modeling Count Data
This course deals with regression models for count data; i.e. models with a response or dependent variable data in the form of a count or rate. The course will cover Poisson regression, the foundation for modeling counts, as well as extensions and modifications to the basic model.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- October 22, 2010

Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
This course will introduce you to the basic ideas of Bayesian Statistics. You will learn how to perform Bayesian analysis for a binomial proportion, a normal mean, the difference between normal means, the difference between proportions, and for a simple linear regression model.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- October 01, 2010
- February 26, 2010

Survey Analysis
This course covers the analysis of data gathered in surveys.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- August 13, 2010

Survey Design and Sampling Procedures
This course covers the crafting of survey questions, the design of surveys, and different sampling procedures that are used in practice. Longstanding basic principles of survey design are covered, and the impact of the trend toward increased respondent resistance is discussed.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- July 09, 2010

Modeling Longitudinal and Panel Data
This course covers the extension of Generalized Linear Models (GLM) to model varieties of longitudinal and clustered data, called panel data.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- July 02, 2010

Introduction to Design of Experiments
This course will stress the application of DOE rather than statistical theory. With a 12-step checklist, it covers full and fractional factorial designs, Plackett-Burman, Box-Behnken, Box-Wilson and Teguchi designs.
Tuition: $369
Next dates available:
- February 19, 2010

Meta Analysis
This course will explain meta analysis - the methods that are used to assess multiple statistical studies on the same subject and draw conclusions.
Tuition: $399
Next dates available:
- December 03, 2010
- July 09, 2010