Practicals for PhD course in

Epidemiological Methods in Medical Research

Spring 2019

Department of Biostatistics
Institute of Public Health
University of Copenhagen

• Main course website
• Lecture slides:
  • Case-Control studies 19 Feb ( 3-ups).
  • Lexis and time-splitting on 9 Apr 2019 are here, as 3-ups, as 8-ups and as 10-ups.
• SAS-files for the practicals on 9 Apr 2019 are here
• Lexis diagrams for testis cancer exercise: blank, outline, cases, PY.
• Exercises for the course, and a version with solutions in SAS, R and Stata --- some are incomplete
• Data for the course, for reading by SAS and by other packages.
  Note: users of R should read the Stata datasets using read.dta() from the foreign package.
• Articles used during the practicals:
  • Kristensen et al. – Bissau study.
  • Vamvakas et al. – Renal cancer and trichorethene.
  • Østerlind – Malignant melanoma study.
  • Westergaard et al – Testis cancer study.