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Agenda Day Two

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Linear Models (cont’d), Regularized Regression, Survival Models

The first hour of day two will conclude the health care expenditure case study and address any lingering questions. The remainder of the day will be devoted to further topics in Generalized Linear Models, as well as introductions to regularized regression and survival analysis. The coverage of each topic will consist of theoretical discussions integrated with case studies.

Thursday, December 13
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
  • Finish iterative modeling process
  • Selection of final model and model validation

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8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
  • Weighted regression and offsets
  • Poisson and negative binomial case studies

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9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
  • Logistic regression case studies
  • Model validation – ROC curves

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    9:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
  • Theoretical discussion: the bias-variance tradeoff
  • Penalized likelihood, connection with Bayesian models
  • Determining tuning parameters using cross-validation
  • Ridge and Lasso regression illustration
  • Case study

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    11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

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    12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
    • Characteristics of survival analysis problems
    • Fundamental concepts: survival functions, hazard functions and censored data
    • Parametric survival models (exponential and Weibull)
    • Non-parametric analysis: life tables and the Kaplan-Meier estimator
    • Semi-parametric analysis: The Cox proportional hazard model
    • Parametric analysis: Weibull regression
    • Illustrative case study

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    1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
    • Case study – Framingham heart study data

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    2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
    • k-means clustering, hierarchical clustering
    • Principal components analysis (PCA): fundamental concepts
    • Illustrative case studies

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