Educational Resources
The following Educational Resources, include three online tools for comparative effectiveness and causal inference (including two online self-guided courses in PCOR Studies and Propensity Score-Based Methods, and another tool for more general causal inference methods called DECODE CER).
Additional links are also provided for resources from the Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences Section of the American Statistical Association and a link to Software for Matching and Propensity Score Methods (created by Dr. Elizabeth Stuart).
Educational Resources
Online Self-Guided Course: PCOR Studies
The Online Self-Guided Course for PCOR Studies, titled "Writing a Successful Concept Proposal in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research", was created in conjunction with the ENACT Network, and development was funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality through R25HS023185.
DECODE CER Tool
The DECODE CER Tool titled "The Decision Tool for Causal Inference and Observational Data Analysis Methods in Comparative Effectiveness Research", was funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Its purpose is to provide insight on formulating questions, recognizing assumptions, conducting analysis, and interpreting results. This work was supported through a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) award (Contract # R-IMC-1306-03827).
Online Self-Guided Course: Propensity-Score Based Methods
An Online Self-Guided Course in Propensity-Score Based Methods for Causal Inference, was developed from funding by an administrative supplement to the National Libraries of Medicine-funded University of Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Training Program (5 T15 LM007059-32). It helps describe potential outcomes with a different perspective and a different set of methods.
Teaching of Statistics in Health Sciences
The Teaching of Statistics in Health Sciences is an active community of researchers and innovators, leaders in the dissemination of modern resources for the practice and teaching of statistics in health sciences, and professionals providing support and mentorship to new teachers of statistics in the health sciences.
The American Statistical Association's (ASA) section of the Teaching of Statistics in Health Sciences (TSHS) is an active community of researchers and innovators, leaders in the dissemination of modern resources for the practice and teaching of statistics in health sciences, and professionals providing support and mentorship to new teachers of statistics in the health sciences. The website contains links to previous TSHS talks and events, webinars, and the TSHS blog,
To access their website, click here.
The TSHS Section has a Resources Portal with curated data sets for use in teaching statistics. Each of the data sets has a brief description with a more detailed abstract, information on the contributor, a summary of the objectives, background information, a data dictionary, and versions of the data set in R, SAS, Stata, SPSS, Minitab, and Excel. Additional resources for instructors can also be requested through the website
To access their resources portal website, click here.
Software for Matching Methods and Propensity Scores
A website dedicated to provide information for matching methods and propensity scores in R, Stata, SAS & SPSS, was created by Dr. Elizabeth A. Stuart from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health.
Dr. Elizabeth A. Stuart, a Professor and Associate Dean for Education at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health, has developed a website with links to over 25 different packages for conducting a wide range of matching and propensity score methods in R, Stata, SAS and SPSS.
You can access the links to the software, and associated references, by clicking here.
Biostats4You
A website created for non-statisticians that helps medical and public health researchers and professionals learn more about biostatistics.
Biostats4You is a website for statistical resources that serve medical and public health researchers and professionals who want to learn about biostatistics. It is developed by members of the Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design Interest Group of the Association for Clinical and Translational Science.
This website is specifically catered to a non-statistician audience.
To access their website, click here.
The Biostats4You website contains many resources and tools that are helpful in learning more about biostatistics in the following six topic areas:
- Sample Size Calculators
- Power and Sample Size Concepts
- Finding and Working with a Biostatistician
- Data Collect and Management
- Hypothesis Tests and P-Values
- Screening and Diagnostic Tests
To access the resources and tools website, click here.