Fellowship
FELLOWSHIPS IN REHABILITATION OUTCOMES RESEARCH. The UMDNJ/New Jersey Medical School, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and the Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research & Education Corp., announce a 1-2 year advanced research training program for professionals interested in objective and subjective outcomes experienced by persons with physical or neurological disabilities and factors that affect these outcomes. Medical rehabilitation outcomes research encompasses research on prognosis, measurement of function and health, treatment guidelines, outcomes management strategies, disability economics, and issues of health policy. Controlled research on the effectiveness and costs of interventions is stressed. Statistical and methodological skills are stressed in our program (without excluding qualitative investigations, which are necessary to explore certain topics.) The training program emphasizes the actual conduct of research, including writing fundable research proposals and publications. Fellows improve their research skills and knowledge of clinical rehabilitation during the program. The training program is based on an individualized Research and Training Plans written by each Fellow in collaboration with a primary mentor and secondary mentors. Mentors may be chosen from among many researchers throughout New Jersey, with special strength in neuropsychology, physiatry, PT, general outcomes methodology, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and other neurological disabilities. Both pre-doctoral (dissertation level) and post-doctoral positions are currently available. For substantive information, contact: Mark Johnston, PhD, (973) 243-6810, Project Director, [EMAIL PROTECTED] For application forms and instructions, contact: Heidi Castillo at (973) 243-6971, [EMAIL PROTECTED], or -- Scott R. Millis, PhD, ABPP Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research & Education Corp 1199 Pleasant Valley Way West Orange, New Jersey 07052 Tel: 973.243.6976 Fax: 973.243.6990 Emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Course Curriculum
I'm organizing a BASIC research methods/statistical analysis course for medical residents. The course will be held over multiple sessions for a total of about 15-20 hours. Any suggestions for textbooks, course materials, format for conducting the course, etc? Thanks! SR Millis -- Scott R. Millis, PhD, ABPP Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research & Education Corp 1199 Pleasant Valley Way West Orange, New Jersey 07052 Tel: 973.243.6976 Fax: 973.243.6990 Emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] === This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, people lacking respect for other members of the list send messages that are inappropriate or unrelated to the list's discussion topics. Please just delete the offensive email. For information concerning the list, please see the following web page: http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ ===
Andrew's Stat Book
I'm trying to locate an out-of-print book: FM Andrew et al., A guide for selecting statistical techniques for analyzing social science data. I'd appreciate any leads or suggestions for a way to obtain this book. Thanks! SR Millis -- Scott R. Millis, PhD, ABPP Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research & Education Corp 1199 Pleasant Valley Way West Orange, New Jersey 07052 Tel: 973.243.6976 Fax: 973.243.6990 Emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] === This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, people lacking respect for other members of the list send messages that are inappropriate or unrelated to the list's discussion topics. Please just delete the offensive email. For information concerning the list, please see the following web page: http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ ===
power analysis & logistic regression
Is anyone aware of software that can perform power analysis for logistic regression? Thanks, SR Millis -- Scott R. Millis, PhD, ABPP Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research & Education Corp 1199 Pleasant Valley Way West Orange, New Jersey 07052 Tel: 973.243.6976 Fax: 973.243.6990 Emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] === This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, people lacking respect for other members of the list send messages that are inappropriate or unrelated to the list's discussion topics. Please just delete the offensive email. For information concerning the list, please see the following web page: http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ ===
Re: Andrew's Stat Book
Thanks to the many listserv members who responded to my query re: Andrews' "A guide for selecting statistical techniques for analyzing social science data." At the suggestion of one listerv member, I contacted the Institute for Social Research (Ann Arbor, MI) directly---they DO have copies of the Andrews for sale (1981 version). With postage and handling, I got a copy for about $10. SR Millis Kent Campbell wrote: > > Hi - > I asked about that one at a bookstore recently, They > couldn't find a reference to that one but the did find one by the same > author with SAS in the title. (Something like "Selecting for SAS > users"). > > Best wishes, > Kent. > > Jan de Leeuw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > : Try http://www.abebooks.com/ > > : --- Jan > > : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > : > I'm trying to locate an out-of-print book: > : > > : > FM Andrew et al., A guide for selecting statistical techniques for > : > analyzing social science data. > : > > : > I'd appreciate any leads or suggestions for a way to obtain this book. > : > > : > Thanks! > : > SR Millis > : > > : > -- > : > Scott R. Millis, PhD, ABPP > : > Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research & Education Corp > : > 1199 Pleasant Valley Way > : > West Orange, New Jersey 07052 > : > > : > Tel: 973.243.6976 > : > Fax: 973.243.6990 > : > Emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > : > > : > === > : > This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, people lacking respect > : > for other members of the list send messages that are inappropriate > : > or unrelated to the list's discussion topics. Please just delete the > : > offensive email. > : > > : > For information concerning the list, please see the following web page: > : > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ > : > === > > : === > : This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, people lacking respect > : for other members of the list send messages that are inappropriate > : or unrelated to the list's discussion topics. Please just delete the > : offensive email. > > : For information concerning the list, please see the following web page: > : http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ > : === > > === > This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, people lacking respect > for other members of the list send messages that are inappropriate > or unrelated to the list's discussion topics. Please just delete the > offensive email. > > For information concerning the list, please see the following web page: > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ > === -- Scott R. Millis, PhD, ABPP Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research & Education Corp 1199 Pleasant Valley Way West Orange, New Jersey 07052 Tel: 973.243.6976 Fax: 973.243.6990 Emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] === This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, people lacking respect for other members of the list send messages that are inappropriate or unrelated to the list's discussion topics. Please just delete the offensive email. For information concerning the list, please see the following web page: http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ ===
Course Curriculum
A short time ago, I solicited help from listserv members to assist me in putting together a research methods/stat course for physicians/medical residents. A receive great help---1 member asked me to post the info that I received. Here it is: For some research methods course material, see http://www.mursuky.edu/polcrjlst/P660f99.htm Mark J. Wattier, Professor and MPA Director -- You might consider a new edition (4th) of the DeVore & Peck elementary stat book, Statistics: the exploration and analysis of data. If your students use calculators, there is a variation of the 4th edition, different title, coming out also. (Disclaimer: I am one of the authors.) Twenty hours sounds a little short for the book, but (IMHO) it would make a terrific reference for the students as they learn more statistics. To get more specific information, contact Roxy Peck at [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Feel free to draw from my course webpage on research methodology: http://www.hs.ttu.edu/Hdfs3390/Default.htm At first, you'll see the syllabus, but if you scroll to the very bottom, you can click on any of the substantive topics, and it will bring up my lecture overheads on that topic. Links to other websites related to the topic are also included within each topical unit. Alan Reifman Texas Tech University - I was forwarded your message. I highly recommend a book by edited by Stephen Hulley and Steven Cummings called "Designing Clinical Research" published by Williams and Wilkins, 1988. It is an inexpensive paperback - very understandable. I would also recommend that you find out more about the ORACLE program at UC San Francisco - it sounds similar to what you are doing. Try going to the www.ucsf.edu web site and looking for ORACLE. Good luck. Cassi Vieten, PhD Director, UCSF Family Alcoholism Study -- I'd suggest my own Design & Stat book from Brooks/Cole except for a small problem. The publisher has elected not to publish a new edition, and what's left in the warehouse is all there there's going to be. But the good news is that there are probably enough copies in the warehouse and in the (damned) used market to keep a course going for several years. If you want to see the book, get hold of your B/C rep or check them on the web (brookscole.com, I think). They may say "It's out of print," but that's incorrect--there are books there in the warehouse. It also doesn't appear in B/C's catalog either, adding to the error and misperception. Just hassle 'em--they WILL process an order. Even better news--I've located a publisher who wants to take over the book. But it'll be a few years before the new edition will be out. Dick Lehman --- I presume you mean seat hours and not credit hours. One thing to emphasize in such a course is that nobody can a graduate education in that amount of time. (I.e., you can't get a doctoral level of education in 20 hours.) The course can only give them enough background to 1) help them find consultants and more 2) work more effectivly with consultants. *** I would heavily emphasize thinking and concepts. *** See the archives of edstat-l for long discussions of this topic. (although focused on a semester course). You might also post this question there. You might develop an annotated bibligraphy. I would take a short time to get down the ideas of a data matrix with rows representing cases, columns representing variables, and emphasizing that measurement is the process of filling in the cells. I would also emhasize that different many kinds of approaches differ mainly in that units make up cases. e.g., a survey may have households, individuals, focus groups, couples, platoons, hospitals; an experiment might have have maybe mice or people; a content analysis has pictures, x-rays, pieces of text, video clips, etc; a meta-analysis has studies. I would emphasize the importance of having a grasp of how the cases are selected, how the variables are selected, and how the measurement is done. I would provide a list of the 14 (?) terms in Campbell, D.T. and Stanley, J.C. "Quasi-Experimentation" (approximate title) and the list of sources of bias from Kish, L. ( 1987). Statistical Design for Research P. 79. I would in include the bibliography Huff's How to Lie with Statistcs; Paulos' a mathematician reads the news; Abelsons' Statistics as pricipled argument; list of the Sage quantitative series; etc. I would distinguish noise from directional bias; precision from accuracy; -- Take a look at Harvey Motulsky's book "Intuitive Biostatistics." It's readable, has good examples, and not so technical as to throw people off. While not perfect, it's the best I've seen of its kind. (I understand Dr. Motulsky is doing a revision, but I don't know when that might come out. The book is published by Oxford University Press, if I remember right.) Steve Albert
Growth Curve Modeling
I'm a novice to growth curve modeling. My content area is
cognitive/neuropsychological recovery following traumatic brain injury.
My subjects have tested on multiple, yearly occasions.
I've had some minimal experience in model fitting with the software
package HLM, but wanted advice from list members regarding the relative
merits of different approaches to growth curve modeling as well as
recommendations for software (HLM vs Mplus vs AMOS vs LISREL vs EQS vs
MLwiN).
If my basic understanding is correct, it seems that there are
differences: varying coefficient models ("slopes-as-intercepts") vs
random coefficient models vs latent growth curve models.
Thanks!
Scott Millis
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Re: Suggest book for Logistic Regression
I'd suggest J. Scott Long's book, Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables, as well as Scott Menard's Applied Logistic Regression Analysis. From a Bayesian perspective, "Ordinal data modeling," by Valen Johnson and James Albert is excellent. Scott Millis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I want to buy an intro. book on logistic regression. I am encountering > cases of experimentation that we need to do with ordinal, nominal, > binary responses. One important thing is sample size (i.e., number of > experimental units, or repetitions for the experiment), so I would like > the book to address this issue, or you could recommend articles that > deal with sample size calculation. > > Is Hosmer and Lemeshow a good INTRO. book? By the way, I am an > engineer not a statistician. > > Lenin > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy. > > === > This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, less thoughtful > people send inappropriate messages. Please DO NOT COMPLAIN TO > THE POSTMASTER about these messages because the postmaster has no > way of controlling them, and excessive complaints will result in > termination of the list. > > For information about this list, including information about the > problem of inappropriate messages and information about how to > unsubscribe, please see the web page at > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ > === -- Scott R. Millis, PhD, ABPP Kessler Medical Rehabilitation Research & Education Corp 1199 Pleasant Valley Way West Orange, New Jersey 07052 Tel: 973.243.6976 Fax: 973.243.6990 Emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.rehabtrials.org === This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, less thoughtful people send inappropriate messages. Please DO NOT COMPLAIN TO THE POSTMASTER about these messages because the postmaster has no way of controlling them, and excessive complaints will result in termination of the list. For information about this list, including information about the problem of inappropriate messages and information about how to unsubscribe, please see the web page at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ ===
Rounding numbers
I need help to settle a bet: If I want to round the number 11.9456 to the first decimal place, what would it be? Thanks! SR Millis === This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, less thoughtful people send inappropriate messages. Please DO NOT COMPLAIN TO THE POSTMASTER about these messages because the postmaster has no way of controlling them, and excessive complaints will result in termination of the list. For information about this list, including information about the problem of inappropriate messages and information about how to unsubscribe, please see the web page at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ ===
Texts: Factor Analysis
What are your favorite book(s) on factor analysis? What do you think of R. Gorsuch's book? Thanks, Scott Millis === This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, less thoughtful people send inappropriate messages. Please DO NOT COMPLAIN TO THE POSTMASTER about these messages because the postmaster has no way of controlling them, and excessive complaints will result in termination of the list. For information about this list, including information about the problem of inappropriate messages and information about how to unsubscribe, please see the web page at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ ===
Nonparametric repeated measures
Is anyone aware of a nonparametric procedure/analogue for repeated measures ANOVA, e.g., repeated measures (pre/post) for intervention and control groups design? Thanks, SR Millis === This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, less thoughtful people send inappropriate messages. Please DO NOT COMPLAIN TO THE POSTMASTER about these messages because the postmaster has no way of controlling them, and excessive complaints will result in termination of the list. For information about this list, including information about the problem of inappropriate messages and information about how to unsubscribe, please see the web page at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ ===
Measuring Physician Behavior
I'm interested in locating scales or related tests that measure physician interpersonal skills with patients. Any suggestions? Thanks, SR Millis === This list is open to everyone. Occasionally, less thoughtful people send inappropriate messages. Please DO NOT COMPLAIN TO THE POSTMASTER about these messages because the postmaster has no way of controlling them, and excessive complaints will result in termination of the list. For information about this list, including information about the problem of inappropriate messages and information about how to unsubscribe, please see the web page at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ ===
