WSS Short Course: Applied Logistic Regression
Date: Monday, March 2, 2015
Time: 9:00 am – 4:30 pm
Place: Conference Center in the Bureau of Labor Statistics
2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Washington, DC 20212-0001
Course Content:
This intermediate level course aims to provide theoretical and practical training for statistical modeling with particular emphasis on logistic regression. Topics include the logistic regression model, estimation and interpretation of its coefficients, goodness-of-fit, multivariable modeling and statistical adjustment, interaction and confounding, stratified analysis via logistic regression. Reference textbook: Applied Logistic Regression, 3rd edition by Hosmer, Lemeshow and Sturdivant.
About the Instructor
Dr. Stanley Lemeshow joined The Ohio State University in 1999 as a biostatistics professor in the School of Public Health and the Department of Statistics, director of the biostatistics core of the Comprehensive Cancer Center and director of the University’s Center for Biostatistics. He was appointed the Founding Dean of the Ohio State University School of Public Health in 2003 and he served in that capacity for 10 years. Dr. Lemeshow is internationally known for his expertise in biostatistics and epidemiology, with research focused on statistical modeling of medical data, sampling, health disparities, and cancer prevention. He has published extensively in the applied and methodological literature, and has co-authored three textbooks for John Wiley & Sons, a leading publisher for the scientific, technical, and medical communities worldwide. His textbooks are Applied Logistic Regression (now in its 3rd Edition), Applied Survival Analysis (now in its 2nd edition) and Sampling of Populations; Methods and Applications (now in its 4th edition). In 1995, Dr. Lemeshow was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and was awarded the Statistics Section Award of the American Public Health Association. In 2003, Dr. Lemeshow was awarded the Wiley Lifetime Award, was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and was selected Distinguished Graduate Alumnus (Biostatistics) by the University of North Carolina Graduate School Centennial. In 2006 he was elected to the UCLA School of Public Health Alumni Hall of Fame.
Course Schedule
| 8:15 - 9:00 | Coffee, Breakfast, Check in |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | The Logistic Regression Model Estimating the Coefficients in the Logistic Model Interpretation of Coefficients |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break |
| 10:45 - 12:15 | The Multivariate Case: Statistical Adjustment |
| 12:15 - 1:15 | Lunch (provided) |
| 1:15 - 2:45 | Stratified Analysis via Logistic Regression Interaction and Confounding Summary Measures of Goodness-of-Fit Area Under the ROC Curve |
| 2:45 - 3:00 | Break |
| 3:00 - 4:30 | Numerical Problems Example: Estimating the Probability of Mortality of ICU Patients |
Advance registration
Please click here to register and pay for the class. Online registration will close on Thursday, February 26, 2015; earlier if the course fills up.Registration Fee
Full-time students (at most 8): $40 advance, $60 at the door
WSS members: $150 advance, $175 at the door
All others: $200 advance, $225 at the door
Contact person: Yang Cheng, 301-763-3287, yang.cheng@census.gov
