printer friendly pageHRP 199: Undergraduate Research
Students undertake investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-18
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Baker, L. (PI)
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Bhattacharya, J. (PI)
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Bundorf, M. (PI)
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Instructors:
Baker, L. (PI)
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Bhattacharya, J. (PI)
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Bundorf, M. (PI)
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Coram, M. (PI)
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Corso, I. (PI)
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Efron, B. (PI)
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Friedman, G. (PI)
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Goldhaber-Fiebert, J. (PI)
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Hastie, T. (PI)
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Heidenreich, P. (PI)
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Henderson, V. (PI)
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Hlatky, M. (PI)
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Johnstone, I. (PI)
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King, A. (PI)
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Kurian, A. (PI)
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Lavori, P. (PI)
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Lu, Y. (PI)
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Maldonado, Y. (PI)
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Miller, G. (PI)
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Nelson, L. (PI)
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Olshen, R. (PI)
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Owens, D. (PI)
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Parsonnet, J. (PI)
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Popat, R. (PI)
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Sabatti, C. (PI)
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Sainani, K. (PI)
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Shih, M. (PI)
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Sieh, W. (PI)
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Simard, J. (PI)
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Tian, L. (PI)
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Tibshirani, R. (PI)
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Whittemore, A. (PI)
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Wong, W. (PI)
HRP 207: Introduction to Concepts and Methods in Health Services and Policy Research I
Primarily for medical students in the Health Services and Policy Research scholarly concentration. Topics include health economics, statistics, decision analysis, study design, quality measurement, cost benefit and effectiveness analysis, and evidence based guidelines.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Haberland, C. (PI)
HRP 213: Writing in the Sciences
Primarily for medical students in the Clinical Research Scholarly concentration; open to graduate students except Epidemiology graduate students. Development of research questions and plans for statistical analysis. Study design, sample size and power calculations, and statistical analysis of study data. Analytic methods to carry out statistical power and sample size calculations. Prerequisites: 225, and 258 or 259, or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-3
Instructors:
Sainani, K. (PI)
HRP 222A: Advising Congress on Health Policy
(Same as
LAW 413L) Focus on conducting research on national health policy problems for the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, or MedPAC. Students work in teams with lawyers and PhD economists from MedPAC, resident and fellow physicians from Stanford Hospital, and other students from throughout the University on exanding the healthcare workforce through reform of states' scope of practice regulation or designing antitrust policy to achieve the benefits of coordination and avoid the costs of consolidation. Application required.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Kessler, D. (PI)
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Pershing, S. (PI)
HRP 223: Epidemiologic Analysis: Data Management and Statistical Programming
The skills required for management and analysis of biomedical data. Topics include importing and exporting data from multiple database systems, visualizing and cleaning data, data management for multicenter projects, and data security. Introduction to applied statistical programming relevant to epidemiologic and clinical research. No previous programming experience required.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-3
Instructors:
Balise, R. (PI)
HRP 225: Design and Conduct of Clinical and Epidemiologic Studies
Intermediate-level. The skills to design, carry out, and interpret epidemiologic studies, particularly of chronic diseases. Topics: epidemiologic concepts, sources of data, cohort studies, case-control studies, cross-sectional studies, sampling, estimating sample size, questionnaire design, and the effects of measurement error. Prerequisite: A basic/introductory course in statistics or consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Popat, R. (PI)
HRP 236: Epidemiology Research Seminar
Weekly forum for ongoing epidemiologic research by faculty, staff, guests, and students, emphasizing research issues relevant to disease causation, prevention, and treatment. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
HRP 256: Economics of Health and Medical Care (BIOMEDIN 156, BIOMEDIN 256, ECON 126)
Institutional, theoretical, and empirical analysis of the problems of health and medical care. Topics: demand for medical care and medical insurance; institutions in the health sector; economics of information applied to the market for health insurance and for health care; measurement and valuation of health; competition in health care delivery. Graduate students with research interests should take
ECON 249. Prerequisites:
ECON 50 and
ECON 102A or
Stats 116 or the equivalent. Recommended:
ECON 51.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 5
HRP 259: Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Epidemiology
Topics: random variables, expectation, variance, probability distributions, the central limit theorem, sampling theory, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals. Correlation, regression, analysis of variance, and nonparametric tests. Introduction to least squares and maximum likelihood estimation. Emphasis is on medical applications. Differential between 3 and 4 units is the amount of out-of-class work required.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Sainani, K. (PI)
HRP 260A: Workshop in Biostatistics (STATS 260A)
Applications of statistical techniques to current problems in medical science. To receive credit for one or two units, a student must attend every workshop. To receive two units, in addition to attending every workshop, the student is required to write an acceptable one page summary of two of the workshops, with choices made by the student.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-2
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Olshen, R. (PI)
;
Sabatti, C. (PI)
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