Up one level Feb 16, 2018
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
I am pleased to introduce a “visual archive” on YouTube that provides a large collection of narrated video recordings of my course lectures, multi-media instructional materials and more. I hope these might serve as a helpful resource for interested students and researchers.
As many of you know, I retired from Emory University in September 2017 after 25 years, preceded by 21 years at University of North Carolina. Also, I was a statistical consultant at the Centers of Disease Control in Atlanta for 27 years. Over my career, I’ve authored several textbooks and published journal articles on statistical and epidemiologic methods that are used/referenced worldwide.
My primary passion has been to creatively communicate concepts and methods to students and health/medical professionals without specialized undergraduate or graduate training in mathematics or statistics. To this end I have taught dozens of semester-long university introductory and advanced courses and over 175 short courses throughout the world.
Also, I’ve had a long-time interest in the development of multi-media instructional materials that promote active, enjoyable and alternative learning. I began such efforts in the 1970s long before computer software (such as PowerPoint) and modern presentation technology (such as computer projection, video lecture recordings) became available. This activity culminated in my 2015 electronic multimedia textbook ActivEpi Web on introductory and higher-level epidemiologic methods, which is available for free (http://activepi.herokuapp.com) to anyone anywhere.
My contributions above (textbooks and ActivEpi Web) are accessible through the internet and other publication sources. I have now produced a “visual archive” of key lectures and instructional materials that can be accessed for free as follows:
Home Videos Playlists Channels Discussion About
Correlated Data 2016 (video recordings of 10 classes)
Epi Modeling 2015 (video recordings of 20 classes)
Epi Modeling 2016 (video recordings of 10 classes- first half of course)
Introduction to Biostatistics: Distributions and Inference (10 narrated PowerPoint videos)
Kleinbaum Career Commentaries (a 4-part video interview and 2 seminars)
Kleinbaum Retirement Party- Sept. 27, 2017 (6 video portions, including my personal reflections)
Playlist Descriptions
Epi Modeling 2015 contains 20 recordings from my 2015 course on Epidemiologic Modeling at Emory University. Topics cover Logistic Regression, Survival Analysis, Poisson Regression and Regression Diagnostics Methods. Emphasis is on strategy for determining the "best" model. Regression diagnostics techniques include Collinearity, Goodness of Fit Tests and ROC curves for model discrimination. Some lectures were given by my co-instructor, Dr. Eli S. Rosenberg.
Epi Modeling 2016 contains 10 recordings from my 2016 course on Epidemiologic Modeling at Emory University. Topics primarily focus on Logistic Regression, Regression Diagnostics Methods, Modeling strategy and Regression diagnostics techniques. Some lectures were given by my co-instructor, Dr. Eli S. Rosenberg.
Correlated Data 2016 contains 10 recordings from my 2016 course on the Analysis of Correlated Data at Emory University. Topics include an overview of modeling issues for correlated data (including notation, data layout, goals of analysis), matrix formulation of correlated data models, linear models for analyzing correlated data, SAS's Mixed procedure, non-linear models for analyzing correlated data, GEE estimation using SAS's GENMOD and GLIMMIX procedures, tests for correlation structures using the COVTEST statement in GLIMMIX, choice of correlation structure and empirical vs. model-based estimates of variance. The Jan. 26 class was taught by Zach Binney.
Introduction to Biostatistics: Distributions and Inference provides narrated recordings of PowerPoint presentations on some basic topics taught in most Introductory biostatistics courses. These presentations were originally developed in the 1970s as slide-tape presentations (many years before PowerPoint became available) and were converted to narrated Power Point presentations in 2012. Also included are links to Viewing Study Guides that summarize the presentations; a worked example taught in the presentation; and a post-test with answers.
Kleinbaum Career Commentaries features my presentation, “Innovative Teaching: A Personal History,” on Jan. 17, 2012 at Emory University; “My Career Reminisces” at my Sept. 27, 2017 retirement party; and an interview of “My Life and Career” on Sept. 27, 2017 produced by Dr. Vic Schoenbach of the Epidemiology Department at UNC and hosted by Dr. William Jenkins, a former colleague at UNC and CDC.
Kleinbaum Retirement Party- Sept. 27, 2017 contains recordings of testimonials from colleagues and my personal reflections presented at the party given by the Epidemiology Department at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory
The videos in the playlists Epi Modeling 2015, Epi Modeling 2016, Correlated Data 2016, and Introduction to Biostatistics: Distributions and Inference may be useful to instructors covering similar material in their own courses. I also have copies of the PowerPoint presentations used in the first three playlists, which I can email to anyone interested in using them as is or in modified form. Furthermore, the website http://www.activepi.com contains freely downloadable PowerPoint presentations that cover the material in ActivEpi Web as well as a freely downloadable Spanish translation ActivEpi Español for Windows computers.
Best wishes,
David G. Kleinbaum, Emeritus Professor/RSPH/Emory