I taught graduate courses intended for our students in Epidemiology and in Biostatistics. Over the years, I assembled materials for these courses. I have decided to distribute this material on this website.

There are some preliminary materials and then materials grouped into 34 sessions. You can download all 34 sessions as a .zip file. Or you can explore the first two sessions [listed below ] to get a sense of the material.


The main bulk of the material is the form of .pdf files. There are also a number of files giving illustrations in Stata as .dta files, .do files and .ado files.

Gordon Hilton Fick PhD
Professor Emeritus
Department of Community Health Sciences
University of Calgary

  • All of the sessions as a .zip file

  • Preliminaries : Preface, Courtesy, OpenOffice, Terminology

  • Session 1 : Two-By-Two Tables - Rates And Odds - Ratios And Differences

  • Session 2 : Stratified Analysis - Many Two-By-Two Tables