2004 Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series

December

• Mass Spectrometry Data Processing Using Mathematical Tools and Statistical Techniques, by Don Hong, Visiting Professor, Department of Biostatistics.. December 15; 10-11am, Conference Room 3131 MRBIII
• A Survey of Measurement Techniques Used in the Biomedical Sciences: A Statistician's Perspective", by Bonnie LaFleur, Department of Biostatistics. December 8; 10:00-11:00 am, MRBIII 3131
• Individual Response to Treatment: Theranostics Between Hope and Hype, by Stephen Senn, Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow.. December 3; 12:00-1:00pm, Light Hall, Room 214
• Statistical Issues in Drug Safety Assessment and Drug Development December 2; 4:00-5:00pm, Light Hall, Room 208
• How Much Shyster Do You Want With Your Quack?, by Stephen Senn, Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow. December 1; 10-11am, PRB Conference Room 206

November

• Recent Statistical and Econometric Advances in Cost-Effectiveness Analyses, by Ya-Chen Tina Shih, Department of Biostatistics, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX. November 17; 10-11am, Conference Room 3131 MRBIII
• Order Restricted Inference Approach to Gene Expression (ORIGEN): Analysis of Time Course and Dose Response Microarray Data, by Shyamal Peddada, Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC. November 10; 10-11am, Conference Room 3131 MRBIII
• Vioxx Recall: Vanderbilt Connection, by Patrick Arbogast, Department of Biostatistics. November 3; 10-11am, Conference Room 3131 MRBIII

October

• Improving False Discovery Rate Estimation, by Stan Pounds, Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN. October 27; 10-11am, Conference Room 3131 MRBIII
• Is There Such a Thing as a "Negative" Clinical Trial? Interpreting Secondary Analyses When the Primary Analysis is Negative, by Gerald Beck, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology - Cleveland Clinic Foundation. October 20; 10-11a, Conference Room MRBIII 3131
• Statistical Principles to Live By, by Frank Harrell, Department of Biostatistics. October 13; 10-11am, Conference Room 3131 MRBIII
• Issues in Establishing Efficacy of New Treatments, by Scott Emerson, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. October 6; 10-11am, Conference Room 3131 MRBIII

September

• Diagnostic Research: Distraction from the Randomised Designs and the Estimation of Sensitivity and Specificity, by Karel G.M. Moons, Associate Professor Clinical Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care - University Medical Center Utrecht. September 30; 10-11am, Conference Room 3131 MRBIII
• Data Reduction Approaches for High Dimensional Data Derived from High Throughput Assays - General discussion of issues that arose during September 8th Seminar, by Yu Shyr, Department of Biostatistics. September 22; 10-11a, Conference Room MRBIII 3131. Put questions for Dr Shyr here
• Data Reduction and Multiple Imputations in Logistic Regression: Case Study on Early Cognitive Status and Productivity Outcome after Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), by Todd G. Nick, Ph.D., Professor Department of Health Sciences, University of Mississippi Medical Center. September 15; 10-11a, Conference Room MRBIII 3131
• Data Reduction Approaches for High Dimensional Data Derived from High Throughput Assays, by Yu Shyr, Department of Biostatistics. September 8; 10-11a, Conference Room MRBIII 3131
• Generalized Least Squares for Analysis of Serial Responses: Not Dead Yet, by Frank Harrell, Department of Biostatistics. September 1; 10-11a, Conference Room MRBIII 3131

August

• An Introduction to R, by Theresa A. Scott, Department of Biostatistics. August 20, 27, September 3, 10; 8-9a, GCRC Conference Room MCN A-3210
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• Using Density Distribution Sunflower Plots for the Display of Dense Bivariate Data, by William Dupont & Dale Plummer, Department of Biostatistics. August 18; 10-11a, Conference room MRBIII 3131

July

• Propensity Scores, by Patrick G. Arbogast, Department of Biostatistics. July 14; 10-11a, Conference room MRBIII 3131

June

• Connecting MS ACCESS to R to MS ACCESS, by Richard C. Urbano, Department of Pediatrics and Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. June 30; 10-11a, Conference room MRBIII 3131
• Using R in the Parallel Environment: A Programmers Perspective, by Thomas Dupont, Department of Biostatistics. June 29; 2-3p, Conference room 569 PRB
• Importing and Manipulating Data in R, by Frank E Harrell Jr, Department of Biostatistics. June 16; 10-11a, Conference Room 3131 MRBIII
• Towards More Automatic Statistical Reporting for Clinical Trials, by Frank E Harrell Jr, Department of Biostatistics. June 2; 10-11a, Conference Room 3131 MRBIII

April

• Some Statistical Aspects of the Analysis of Genomic Sequences, by Lily Wang, University of North Carolina School of Public Health. April 29; 11-12, A1133 MCN
• "Intuitive" Approach for the Classification Problems in Omics Data, by Marina Sapir, Apr 28 3pm-4pm, 1432 Stevenson Center. Sponsored jointly by the Biomathematics Study Group and the Department of Biostatistics.

March

• Randomization Inference in Covariance Adjustment in a Randomized Controlled Trial with Incomplete Longitudinal Data by Robert Alan Greevy, Jr., The Wharton School, Department of Statistics, Univ. of Pennsylvania: Mar 2
• Introduction to Statistics in R by Dean Billheimer and Bonnie LaFleur : Mar 4 - Apr 15 10-12, Room TBA, Tentative Syllabus
• Assessing the effect of reproductive hormone profile on bone mineral density using functional two-stage mixed models by Daowen Zhang, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University: Mar 11
• Scientific Graphics by FE Harrell: Mar 16 noon-1pm, Pediatrics Housestaff Journal Club; Wadlington Conference Room, 2nd Floor of the new Children's Hospital
• Shared Frailty Models for Recurrent Events and a Terminal Event by Lei Liu, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan: Mar 16
• Hierarchical Modeling for Cancer Care Provider Profiling Based on Registry Data with Measurement Error by Hui Zheng, Ph.D., Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School: Mar 18
• Functional Mixed Effects Models With Prior Information With Application to Cortisol Data by Li Qin, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania: Mar 23, 12-1; Grand Conference Room, 6018 MCE
• Likelihood and Shrinkage Estimates of Differential Gene Expression in Oligonucleotide Arrays by Jianhua Hu, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Mar 24, 2-3; Preventive Medicine Conference Room, A-1133 MCN

February

• Regression Modeling Strategies by FE Harrell: Feb 4,5,6,11,12 8am-11am
• Marginal Regression Modeling of Longitudinal, Categorical Response Data by Jonathan Schildcrout, Dept. of Biostatistics, University of Washington: Feb 6
• Ecological studies using supplemental case-control data by Sebastien Haneuse, Dept. of Biostatistics, University of Washington: Feb 12
• Estimation for Generalized Linear Models When Covariates Are Subject-specific Parameters in a Mixed Model for Longitudinal Measurements by Erning Li, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State Univ.: Feb 23
• Study of Relationship Between Virologic and Immunologic Responses in AIDS Clinical Trial by Hua Liang, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105: Feb 26
• Two-Stage Adaptive Procedures For Simultaneously Testing Noninferiority And Superiority by Tatsuki Koyama, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Feb27