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Department of Biostatistics Weekly Seminar

The department hosts weekly seminars and workshops for persons interested in applied statistics, statistical theory, epidemiology, health services research, clinical trials methodology, statistical computing, statistical graphics, and R. We will send e-mail announcements to those in the pertinent groups defined at SemEmail, depending on the seminar.

LOCATION: MRBIII, Room 1220 (unless otherwise noted)
TIME: 1:30-2:30pm on the dates indicated in the calendar below.

Contact Tawanna Peters or Stacy Krueger for more information.

Spring 2019

January	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
January 2	NO SEMINAR - Winter break			edit
January 9	Musings on Statistical Models vs. Machine Learning in Health Research	Frank Harrell		edit
January 16	ModelingRegion-ReferencedLongitudinalFunctionalElectroencephalographyData	Aaron Scheffler	No student discussion	edit
Fri, Jan 18 at 1:30pm 2525 WEA 10th Floor VICTR Conf Rm	EstimatingHeterogeneousTreatmentEffectsWithCensoredDataViaFullyNonparametricBayesianAcceleratedFailureTimeModels	Nicholas Henderson	No student discussion	edit
January 23	ImprovingIndividualOutcomesOptimizingStageDurationInASequentialMultipleAssignmentRandomizedTrial(SMART)	Hayley Belli	Robert Greevy & Tatsuki Koyama	edit
Fri, Jan 25 at 1:30pm 2525 WEA 3rd Floor EPI Conf Rm 338	Set-basedInferenceForIntegrativeAnalysisOfGeneticCompendiums	Ryan Sun	No student discussion	edit
January 30	UsingObservationalDataToAggregateEvidenceOfClinicalEfficacyWithInformationOnMedicalCosts	Andrew Spieker	No student discussion	edit

February	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
Fri, Feb 1 at at 1:30pm 2525 WEA 10th Floor VICTR Conf Rm	AStatisticalFrameworkForPredictiveModelingOfMicrobialCommunityData	Li Chen	No student discussion	edit
February 6	BridgingTheGapBetweenNoisyHealthcareDataAndKnowledgeCausalityAndPortability	Xu Shi	Andrew Spieker	edit
Fri, Feb 8 at 12:00pm 2525 WEA 10th Floor VICTR Conf Rm	InterpretationOfRegulatoryVariantsTowardsDecipheringOfDiseaseRisk	Jing Wang	No student discussion	edit
February 13	PredictingInpatientDeteriorationFromQualityImprovementToResearch	Benjamin Goldstein	To be led by the speaker	edit
Fri, Feb 15 at 1:30pm 2525 WEA 10th Floor VICTR Conf Rm	BayesianModelingOfLatentHeterogeneityInComplexSurveyData	Rebecca Anthopolos	No student discussion	edit
February 20	Instrumental Variable Methods for Cancer Comparative Effectiveness Studies: Do they help or hurt?	Nandita Mitra	Amber Hackstadt	edit
February 27	New ICA methods for brain network analysis using neuroimaging data	Ying Guo	Simon Vandekar	edit

March	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
March 6	NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK			edit
March 13	Balanced Crystalloids vs Saline:Transforming the ICU into a Learning Healthcare System	Matthew Semler	Robert Greevy	edit
March 20			No student discussion	edit
March 27	NO SEMINAR - ENAR			edit

April	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
April 3	Taking a network view of EHR and Biobank data to find explainable multivariate patterns	Nick Strayer	No student discussion	edit
April 10	The Flourishing Statistical Environment: How Can We Tell?	Karen Bandeen-Roche	No student discussion	edit
April 17	Evaluation of relative risk model in PheWAS analysis	Ya-Chen Lin	No student discussion	edit
Fri, April 19 at 1:30pm 2525 WEA 10th Floor VICTR Conf Rm	An Overview of Modern Counterfactually-Defined Mediation Analysis	Shi Huang	No student discussion	edit
April 24	Judging Lack of Fit in Complex Regression Models	John Fox	Bob Johnson	edit

May	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
May 1	Counting viruses: Estimating the size of the latent HIV reservoir	Michael Hudgens	Bryan Shepherd	edit
May 8	Can we predict success in academic medical research?	Felicity Enders	Thomas Stewart, unless there is a faculty mtg at 230pm	edit
May 15	Unlocking the "Actome": Characterizing Human Activity and Behavior Patterns Using Smartphone Sensor Data	Julian Wolfson	Chang Yu	edit
May 22	Finding the Needles in a Haystack: a Journey to Improve Data Quality in EHRs	Cindy Chen	Ran Tao	edit
May 29	A Statistical Perspective on Challenges and Opportunities in Research Using Real World Data	Rebecca Hubbard	Leena Choi	edit

June	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
June 5				edit
June 12	Stress, Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, And You	Jim Kendall	No student discussion	edit
June 19	Conflict Management	Stephanie Dean	No student discussion	edit
June 26				edit

July	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
July 10	Conditional likelihood for two-phase samples, an alternative for non-experts	Claudia Rivera Rodriguez	No student discussion	edit

Fall 2019

August	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
August 7	Summer Break			edit
August 14	Summer Break			edit
August 21	Doctor, It Hurts When I p	Ronald Wasserstein	Fac Mtg	edit
August 28	A network clustering approach to diagnosis codes in electronic medical recrods for unsupervised learning of disease heterogeneity and patient subgroups	Yaomin Xu	Robert Greevy	edit

September	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
September 4	Non-analytical challenges faced by a team of biostatisticians when collaborating on a large cohort study in prostate cancer	Tatsuki Koyama	Frank Harrell	edit
September 11	A Statistical Leadership Journey	Sally Morton	Fac Mtg	edit
September 18	From measurement error to implementation science methods Career errors or well-executed implementation?	Donna Spiegelman	All Dept Mgt	edit
September 25	Methods for evaluating the time-varying prognostic performance of survival models	Jason Liang	Flulapalooza	edit

October	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
October 2	Medication extraction from electronic health records using medExtractR	Hannah Weeks	Leena Choi	edit
October 9	Monitoring HIV Care in South Africa Using a Laboratory Monitoring Database	Matthew Fox	Fac Mtg	edit
October 16	How Data Science Can Enable Data Privacy for Big Biomedical Research Programs	Bradley Malin	Jeffrey Blume	edit
October 23	Global tumor transcriptional activity reveals aggressiveness across multiple cancers	Wenyi Wang	Yaomin Xu	edit
October 30	The utility of the epsilon-skew-normal distribution in the context of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve fitting	Terry Mashtare	Robert Greevy	edit

November	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
Fri, November 1 at 1:30pm 2525 WEA 10th Floor VICTR Conf Rm	Robust odds ratio estimation using error-prone data: correcting for outcome misclassification and covariate measurement error in logistic regression	Sarah Lotspeich	Bryan Shepherd	edit
November 6	Community-Level Analysis for Complex Microbiome Association Studies	Anna Plantinga	Thomas Stewart	edit
Fri, November 8 at 1p 2525 WEA Large classroom	Methodological Problems in Multigenerational Epidemiology	Glen McGee		edit
Fri, November 15 at 1:30pm 2525 WEA 10th Floor VICTR Conf Rm	Developing and evaluating prognostic models using data from electronic health records	Benjamin French		edit
November 20	Introduction to False Discovery Rates in Large Scale Inference	Valerie Welty	Jeffrey Blume	edit
November 27	No Seminar: Thanksgiving		Fac Mtg	edit

December	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
December 4	Bayesian Cumulative Probability Models for Continuous and Mixed Outcomes	Nathan James	Nathan James & Robert Greevy	edit
December 11	Application of Principal Components Analysis for Data Reduction using National, Community-Level Socioeconomic and Health Metrics	Irene Feurer	No student discussion	edit
December 18	No Seminar: Winter Break			edit
December 25	No Seminar: Winter Break			edit

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