PHS 651

Spring 2019 · Course archive

Applied
Longitudinal
Analysis

Instructor: Lu Mao, PhD
University of Wisconsin-Madison

A practical course in modeling correlated outcomes—from response profiles and mixed effects models to GEE, missing data, smoothing, and multilevel models.

About these materials

Course materials are adapted from Applied Longitudinal Analysis by Garrett M. Fitzmaurice, Nan M. Laird, and James H. Ware (Wiley).

24 lectures SAS programs datasets

From the Spring 2019 classroom

Student perspectives

“This course not only teaches us theoretical knowledge, but also gives us practical operations opportunity using SAS.”

Anonymous student evaluation · excerpt

“Dr. Mao was one of the most responsive instructors I have ever had.”

Anonymous student evaluation · excerpt
Overall course satisfaction
6.8 / 7
Overall instructor satisfaction
6.6 / 7
“I learned a lot in this course.”
7.0 / 7

Selected feedback from UW–Madison’s anonymous Spring 2019 end-of-term evaluation, POP HLTH/B M I 651. Mean ratings on a 1–7 scale (7 highest); 5 of 8 students responded.

Course sequence

Lecture materials

Download all 24 PowerPoints ↓

Study desk

Course resources

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Practice data

Lecture and assignment datasets, plus optional practice data.

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References & course documents

Matrix operations, model diagnostics, time-varying confounding, assignments, and the historical schedule.

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Download the data listed with each program and set your SAS working directory to the folder containing those data files. See the materials guide for usage notes and known gaps.

Code, data & references

Supporting files

Course conversation

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