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Good News Meeting Ground Rules PEOPLE * Aihua "Anna" Bian, Biostatistician I * Steven Chen, Assistant Professor * Mike Guo, Bioinformatics Systems Engineer ...
Beamer Tips and Tricks Using * DocProcess has a few links to Beamer examples * Beamer Template is an example from Frank Harrell Handouts Frank's example ...
Calendar Comments Does the department's web calendar (http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/calendar) meet your needs? Do you use it? How could it be improved? If you ...
2012 Center for Quantitative Sciences Workshop * Date: Third Friday of every month ( July, August, December) * Time: noon 1 pm (Lunch will be provided) ...
Cole and Will Fantasy Sports Application Description An application that will facilitate fantasy sports drafts. Our first priority is football. It needs to import ...
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Computing Clinic The Computing Clinic is currently on an extended hiatus (as of 12/2013) while the department's administration structure is being reorganized. We ...
Biostatistics Seminars Attended I didn't record this unitl 12 Mar 2012 when informed to keep the attendance records. 1 14 Mar 2012: Theory and application of statistical ...
Project Form Documentation The type of data used in the study. This can be MicroArray or MassSpec. Name Type Tooltip message MassSpec option MicroArray ...
Dean Billheimer Contact Info * Name: Dean Billheimer * Email: * Phone: * Comment: "The essential distinction in the problem of inference is the distinction ...
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Summary of Faculty Accomplishments Calendar Year Articles Published in Peer Reviewed Journals Books and Book Chapters Published Memberships on National Committees ...
Fantasy Football What else did you think statisticians did for fun? Other than play ultimate. http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/biostat 2007 Results ...
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Working Remotely Procedures for using Zoom Related Topics * Facilities and Resources * Getting Started at Vanderbilt Biostatistics ...
HDDAC Administrative Group A comma seperated list of TWiki names of those users who have write access to the HDDAC web * Set GROUP = WillGray, MingLi, BasharShakhtour ...
HDDAC Group A comma seperated list of TWiki names of those uses who have write access in the HDDAC web * Set GROUP = TwikiAdmin, WillGray, YuShyr, MingLi, HeidiChen ...
How to Name a Wiki Topic This topic is designed to help you choose a good name for your new wiki topic/page. It's easy and will make using the wiki easier for others ...
How To Save 10% at the Courtyard Cafe The Courtyard Cafe gives a 10% VUMC employee discount when you use your Commodore Card (id badge) to pay. Here's how to add ...
A Checklist to Your Personal Homepage 1. Photo (refer to "How to Add Your Picture Onto the Homepage in 4 Easy Steps") 1. Contact information: address, phone ...
Templates for Grant Proposals * Statistical Components for Grant Proposals * Study Design * Sample Size Calculation * Statistical Method Templates for ...
Ultimate Frisbee Intramurals Yay frisbee! If you're interested in participating, please e mail Cole Beck or Jeremy Stephens. About Ultimate Ultimate frisbee is a ...
Biostatistics Intramural Sports This is the portal to the various Vanderbilt intramurals we've participated in. Here's a link to the official intramural calendar ...
JoAnn Alvarez, MA Biostatistician III E mail: joannmalvarez #64;gmail.com Office: 490 Preston Research Building My CV and resume (word file) Interests ...
July 13, 2010 (MRBIII, Room 1220 2:00PM) Good News * BINGO! * Winners Marcia and Alex * Linda returning home * Cindy Chen's R21 receives a very high ...
Welcome to the Department of Biostatistics! Here are some useful resources for you to learn about R, Sweave/LaTeX, longitudinal data analysis, survival analysis and ...
Kubuntu Notes Gutsy Gibbon Fuzzy Fonts After upgrading to gutsy, fonts might appear a little fuzzy. To fix this, go to System Settings Appearance Fonts and ...
How to Obtain Updates to Individual Functions in R Packages Between Releases This page shows you how to read in source code to override functions in a package. The ...
Linux Workshop: General Linux Information and Security Tips March 26, 2008 Linux Information Links for Further Reading * Linux.com and Linux.org. * Linux Today ...
R Programing Gotchas R Gotchas R has several 'features' that can trip up those who are not aware of them. Non Value Values. R contains several values are specially ...
Massion Serum MALDI Celebrex Taxotere Study * Start Date: 30 Aug 2004 * Research Drive Directory: /Massion/040830/ * data (data.txt, data_log10.txt) is ...
Linux Workshop Modding Mozilla Themes extensions can enhance Firefox and Thunderbird June 29, 2005 * The web site for Firefox and Thunderbird extensions is ...
New Hire Procedures * Information Technology Procedures for New Employees * Administrative Procedures for New Employees * Welcome to Vanderbilt 30 Day Survey ...
Biostatistics Potluck Party Monday, February 12 at 11:00 AM (Lunch); PRB 898 A B General Rules * For Biostat. faculty and staff only * Things don't need ...
How to write your own functions and good R programing techniques Good R Programing Techniques R is quite different from regular programing languages in the way that ...
Making Dot Charts in R Rachel Hayes brought a problem to R Clinic on 23Oct08. The Hmisc Dotplot function can produce multi panel dot charts with error bars while ...
R and VIM Syntax Highlighting and Indenting I modified the existing R vim syntax file, and created a vim R indent file since R's indention in vim was broken. Below ...
An R function for redcap exports through the API Here is an R function that exports data from redcap through the API within R. This function, along with new options ...
Renaming files in Microsoft VSS This may sound tricky, but it's actually rather simple. The reason behind this method is to preserve the file history. It helps to ...
School of Medicine Committees * Basic Science Chairs * Our representative to the School's Faculty Advisory Committee: Robert Greevy (2007 2009) following Patrick ...
Scrabble Server Registration The server's current version is 1.6.2. Registration and Login Steps * Start PyScrabble * Click Find Public Servers * Click Add ...
Shared Resource Group * Set GROUP = BasharShakhtour, HeidiChen, TatsukiKoyama, WillGray, YuShyr, MingLi, FeiYe, DanAyers, DavidBiagi * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE ...
Using Subversion for Source Control Steps * Confirm nightly backup * Repositories on Biostatdebian * Configure SVN service * Test migration vss2svn on ...
Softball team shirt orders are due no later than August 26 at 4 pm. Please contact Seth with general questions regarding shirt orders, and contact Cole or Will with ...
Steve Meurer, PhD, MBA, MHS Senior Vice President, Comparative Data Informatics http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SteveMeurerJune1 Wednesday, June 1, 2011 TIME ...
Converting Documents Produced by Sweave and knitr Converting from LaTeX to html The recommended format for statistical reports to send to collaborators is pdf produced ...
How to Define Your Own System Command Scripts The following uses the small, handy pico editor. Suppose that the command script you want to create is called zzz. ...
List of Vanderbilt Biostatistics Wiki users To edit pages on this site, you must have a registered user name and password. You do not need to register if you just ...
R code for tplot, kmplot and other functions. * RFunctions1.R: RFunctions1.R R code for other miscellaneous functions. * RFunctions2.R: RFunctions2.R R code ...
Twiki Access Discussion Problem As part of forming the High Dimensional Data Analysis Core, we set up the HDDAC web on the twiki. We want the data to be secure, ...
TWiki Firefox Add ons These are some add ons to help with using the TWiki. Navigation TWiki Browser Plugins has some Firefox search plugins for searching and ...
Vanderbilt has established an Office of Sustainability and Environmental Management; their web site SustainVU contains valuable information about conserving important ...
Web Application Registry Members of the Department of Biostatistics and the Center for Quantitative Sciences have developed or participated in the development of web ...
Statistics for Main Web (2008) Month: Topic views: Topic saves: File uploads: Most popular topic views: Top contributors for topic save and uploads ...
WFCCM 2 How To Step by step Step 1: Loading the Data and Information Sets * Go to "File Add a Data Set" to add the given data * The name of the Data ...
* Version 1.0.00 dd mmm yyyy: Public release. Score generation and distance complete. For instructions, please refer to the guide. If you can not run the project, ...
Add DataGroupings and CriteriaManagers DataGroupings Working on a large project and having to create the same 6 groupings several times (incuding creating columns ...
Fisher Algorithm Performed on a set of non negative numbers and labels of size N. There must be two specific labels. Label 1 must be 1 and label 2 must be 2. There ...
Info Algorithm Performed on an ordered (ascending) set of numbers and labels of size N. There must be only 2 unique labels (Label 1 and label 2). Seperate the list ...
Likelihood Ratio Algorithm Suppose that we have data from stratum 0 and stratum 1. The test statistic is computed as : %$Z = 2Nlog(\frac{T}{N}) 2\sum N_jlog(\frac ...
Log Rank and Wilcoxon Algorithm These tests are for comparison of two or more strata of survival data. Suppose that we have data from stratum 0 and stratum 1. Denote ...
Permutation TTest Algorithm Performed on a set of non negative numbers and labels of size N. There must be two specific labels. Label 1 must be 1 and label 2 must ...
SAM Algorithm The data is %$x_{ij}$%, i = 1, 2, ... p genes, j = 1, 2, ... n samples, and response data %$y_j$%, j = 1,2, ... n (%$y_j$% may be a vector). Generic ...
TTest Algorithm Performed on a set of non negative numbers and labels of size N. There must be two specific labels. Label 1 must be 1 and label 2 must be 2. There ...
WGA Algorithm WGA = \begin{displaymath} \frac{d_b}{k_1d_{1} k_2d_{2} \alpha} \end{displaymath} * description of letters * %$n_i$% is the total number of ...
Wilcoxon Algorithm Performed on a set of numbers and labels of size N. There must be two specific labels. Label 1 must be 1 and label 2 must be 2. There can also be ...
No Score Summary The score summary was only giving the max values for SAM, WGA, and Hu instead of a table of possible cutoffs. The problem was occuring for a DataSet ...
Extra score summary row Summary.ScoreSummary sometimes puts a duplicate row at the very bottom. For example, WGA 0.01 Follow up on 17 Mar 2006 I haven't observed ...
Bad testing dataset information added training data set information while it's supposed to add testing data set information, it affected Summarypercentage class and ...
Bad path in state mainTree node showed training set folder name after running a testing set, it caused part of saved state couldn't work anymore since it can not find ...
Incorrect BallGraph Title The ballgraph was automatically generated when I clicked run 50 on a top200 graph. The ballgraph's title said it was run 100. It's has ...
No Ballgraph Generated When I click on model 1 of a cutoff, the ball graph is not generated. Is is trying to compensate for topN? If so, this is not a good solution ...
Cannot Save Cluster Unhandled exception 'incorrect parameter used' when trying to save a cluster of the entire dataset (not filtered by a winner list). F:\Lu\050326HJ ...
Cannot load Unix format datafile For some reason, MemoryMapDataSet is not correctly determining that Unix and Mac file formats use a single byte for newlines (CR or ...
Invalid specified cast This error occurs when trying to run Cross Validation Distance. The illegal cast occurs during the creation/setup of the SummaryPercentages ...
Object reference not set When trying to generate a ball graph for cross validation distance topN results, an unhandled exception occured. Object reference not set ...
Missclassified Patients 50% Threshold The graph for missed columns/patients in the testing data does not appear when the testing data classification is lower than ...
Incorrect Double Progress bar when more than one distance run submitted, the outter progress bar shows "0 of n" or "1 of n ", it doens't show " n 2 of n" or "n 1 of ...
Incorrect VizSpectra Zoom function error occurs when continue use zoom function in vizSpec (normally afterusing 5 6 times zoom function); Grab function doesn't have ...
Distance Permutation Number Not Loading Entering the distance p value permutation number works correctly, but it is not showing up when selecting the criteria. This ...
Non delete I deleted groupings and re added them so I could re run the statistical tests. I saved state and re loaded. Then, there were multiple (2 or 3) score nodes ...
The Info Score There are two datasets. One is the whole dataset which includes all the samples, and the other only includes the samples I need. I use the same grouping ...
Cannot write missed column report Steps to Reproduce Get the data from Bashar and run the same comparisons. Expected Behavior Observed Behavior Application threw ...
Panel not updated on new grouping created Steps to Reproduce Create a new grouping. Expected Behavior The grouping panel should updated to reflected the saved grouping ...
Error saving winner lists for cross validation Steps to Reproduce Run cutoff or topN cross validation distance. Expected Behavior Observed Behavior The first model ...
Duplicate distance results Steps to Reproduce Run distance, save state, close WFCCM, and reload. Expected Behavior Observed Behavior On loading a saved state, there ...
ChartPanel Public Methods * saveImage(String imgName) saves image of the chart (as a PNG file) to the given image name * setDimensions(float top, bottom, ...
CombinationManager Public Methods * SetBases(ArrayList of int) Sets the sizes of the bases. * Arraylist GetCombination(int) Returns the 0 base indices that ...
Console Wfccm Command line aspect of Wfccm. Limited capability extended. Todo * Add support for Shuo's preprocessed data log transformation not applicable ...
Commenting Guidelines * Add class/function header at time of creation * Use summary to describe a function/class. * Use value to describe a property ...
CriteriaManagerPanel Public Methods * loadCM(CriteriaManager, ArrayList, bool) Takes the CriteriaManager to load, a list of score names, and whether or not the ...
CriteriaSet Public Methods * Property Pass * Property NumPass The number of rows that passed the evaluation. If IgnoreNumPass then don't count. * SetColumnValue ...
CutoffManager Parent: CriteriaManager Public Methods * CutoffManager(CutoffManager) The copy constructor. * Add(string, string, double) Adds a score name ...
DataContainer Public Methods * DataContainer(DataContainer) Copy constructer. * AddColumn(string) Appends a new column of data, sets the name, and returns ...
DataGrouping Public Methods * DataGrouping(DataGrouping) Copy constructor. * Add(string, string) Adds a Column by name and sets group descriptor (defaults ...
DataGroupingPanel Public Methods * loadDG(DataSetInfo, DataGrouping, bool, bool) Takes the data information, the grouping to load, and whether the grouping is ...
DataSet Parent: DataContainer, Interface: IDataSet Public Methods * DataSet(DataSet) Copy Constructor overload that handles the name list. * SetDataPoint ...
DataSetPanel Public Methods * LoadDataSetPanel(DataSetInfo) loads the DataSet contained within the DataSetInfo object. If an InformationSet has also been assigned ...
This has been set aside for now, being replaced by memory mapped files. Temporary memory saving solution until C# 2.0 is officially released. Since an object takes ...
DistanceReport Static Methods * WriteMissedColumn(ArrayList, string, bool, double) Will first filter distanceResults for runs where overall percent correct ...
DistanceResult Public Members * FilteredScores List of ids, numPass and the modifiers. * CriteriaSet criteria * DistanceOutput train * DistanceOutput ...
* Copy and Paste will work * WfccmExceptionCodes Creation error "\n Failure when trying to create " this.GetType().ToString() " `" this.name "'!" Add row ...
Expression Public Methods * Expression(string) Creation constructor. Sets function to the passed string, checks the validity of the function and converts to ...
FilteredScore Parent: Score Public Methods * FilteredScore(Score, CriteriaSet) Filters a score according to the criteria set. Creates the numPass column. ...
Functionality Requests * Change T test p value calculation from equal variance to unequal variance. * Eisen like data overview with sortable columns and groupings ...
InformationSet Parent: DataContainer Public * SetDataPoint(int, int, string) Set the data at that point. * GetDataPoint(int, int) Gets the data at that ...
Large Data Set Capability Detailed Time Line and Tasks Large DataSet Implementaiton Apr18 May 06 3 weeks 1. Implement objects. 1. Build the interface. ...
Large DataSet SubClass Pros and Cons Description For large dataset capabilities, we might need to make the read only MemoryMapDataSet a subclass of DataSet. Pros ...
MissedValues Note: This class's structure is dependent entirely on DistanceReport.WriteMissedColumn() function Public Members * highlightRuns Arraylist of highlighted ...
Network Public Methods * Network(IPAddress, int) Constructor for starting a connection. * Network(string, int) Constructor for starting a connection. ...
Options in Wfccm2 Instead of forcing the load and save dialogs, we could have import/export options with buttons or a menu. Are we going to only use the flat file ...
PartitionedDataSet Public Methods * PartitionedDataSet(string) Constructor that takes the path to the DataSet. * PartitionedDataSet(string, int) Constructor ...
WFCCM Pre Post Guide This is a guide for running pre post analysis in WFCCM. For a pre post analysis, there needs to be a pre treatment and post treatment sample for ...
Requirements Statement The software to be designed will control the generation of scores to be used is the distance analysis of genes and proteins via WFCCM. The program ...
Rfunctions Public Methods * Average(ArrayList) Returns the mean. * StDev(ArrayList, double) Returns the standard deviation. * Var(ArrayList) Returns ...
Summary Public Methods * ScoreSummary(ArrayList) Returns an InformationSet that summarizes all of the Scores given. * ScoreSummary(Score, ...) ScoreSummary ...
SummaryPanel Public Methods * SummaryPanel() Default constructor * SummaryPanel(SummaryPercentages) create a new Summary panel with the given percentages ...
SummaryPercentages Public Members * ArrayList Grp1 Grp2 Pcts Train Test Percentages * ArrayList Train Test Pcts Percentages for training or testing ...
Please put your feedback on this system. I think that this will work, but I am open to better solutions. Jeremy. At this point in time, use the console tester to write ...
TopNManager Parent: CriteriaManager Public Members * TopNManager(TopNManager) The copy constructor. * Add(string, string, double) Adds a score name, operator ...
Foswiki or TWiki? Foswiki is a fork of the TWiki software. If you want to know why the fork was created, read this. It was in our best interest to switch because ...
Customise this topic; samples and ideas available at TWiki:TWiki.WebLeftBarCookbook. * * WfccmBugReports * WfccmDistributedComputing * MicroArrayMassSpec ...
WillGrayNotifyList This topic defines the e mail notifications I receive when certain topics change. * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = WillGray Topic immediate notifications ...