CLA Honors Seminar in Clinical Trials - Spring 2007

School of Public Health

Division of Biostatistics

Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort, and wealth - Robert Orben

Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckyw for you, I happen to be a quack. - (A cartoon by Richter).

These are the good kind of mushrooms. From: Famous Last Words Quotes.

A clinical trial is an experiment in which the guinea pigs are human beings. This seminar will explore scientific, statistical, ethical, and policy issues regarding clinical trials, primarily through a series of examples of historic clinical trials of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Notes for this course:

  • Class notes.001
  • Class notes.002
  • Class notes.003
  • Class notes.004
  • Class notes.005
  • Lumpectomy Paper - NEJM, 1985
  • Jenny Ostergren's Answers to Homework 1
  • John C's Answers to Homework 1
  • Jenny Ostergren's Answers to Homework 2
  • John C's Answers to Homework 2
  • Ashley Cooper's Answers to Homework 3
  • Alexander Browne's Answers to Homework 3
  • John C's Answers to Homework 3
  • Danielle Alfano's Answers to Homework 4
  • Mike Linneman's Answers to Homework 4
  • John C's Answers to Homework 4
  • Jessica DeWolfe's Answers to Homework 5

  • Biostatistics Home Page

    Web address of this page: http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~john-c/HSEM3010.s2007.html

    Most recent update: February 2, 2007.