Six in-person labs, Thursdays 10 am–12 pm in SPPH 143, Weeks 2–7.
Each lab teaches one method on a fixed teaching dataset. The matching practice
increment then applies that same method to your own locked paper — see
practice/.
| Lab | Topic | Feeds | Due |
|---|---|---|---|
| L0 | Setup — do before Week 1 | — | self-study, not graded |
| L1 | NHANES data wrangling | — | Thu Sept 17 |
| L2 | NHANES–mortality linkage | P1 | Thu Sept 24 |
| L3 | Confounding & collapsibility | P2 | Thu Oct 1 |
| L4 | Effect modification & interaction | P3 | Thu Oct 8 |
| L5 | Complex survey analysis | P4 | Thu Oct 15 |
| L6 | Missing data & multiple imputation | P5 | Thu Oct 22 |
All six work the same way: the TA explains the worked solution, you run it yourself, you knit it, you submit the knitted file before the session ends. Graded Complete / Incomplete, 10% of the course between them. Bring a laptop with R installed.
Submissions go through Canvas.