2007 Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series

December

• Winter Holidays - No Workshop on December 26
• Special Thursday Seminar On the Voronoi Estimator for Spatial Intensity, by Christopher Barr, Doctoral Student, Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles
  December 20; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Spline regression, an alternative to categorical analysis of dose-response relationship for epidemiologic data: an example from TCPS, by Huiyun "William" Wu, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Cancer Division, Vanderbilt University December 12; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Performance of Disease Risk Scores, Propensity Scores, and Multiple Regression in the Presence of Confounders, by Patrick G. Arbogast, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University December 5; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220

November

• LINUX Workshop, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University November 28; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Thanksgiving - No Workshop on November 21
• Parametric Approaches for Optimizing Treatment Schedules in Adaptive Early-Phase Clinical Trials, by Thomas Braun, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan November 14; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• P-values, Likelihoods and Measuring Statistical Evidence, by Leena Choi, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University November 7; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220

October

• LINUX Workshop, October 31; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Simultaneous Inference: When Should Hypothesis Testing Problems Be Combined?, by Bradley Efron, PhD, United States Medal of Science 2007, Member National Academy of Science, Max H. Stein Professor and Professor of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Statistics and Biostatatistics, Stanford University October 24; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• A Bayesian Predictive Approach to Assessing Statistical Agreement Between Two Continuous Measurements, by Cody Hamilton, PhD, Biostatistics, Edwards Lifesciences October 17; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Bioinformatics Tools Enabling U-Statistics. From Sports to Microarrays, by Knut M. Wittkowski, PhD, Biometrician, Senior Research Associate, The Rockefeller University, Center for Clinical and Translational Science, New York October 10; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Effects of Environment, Genetics and Data Analysis Pitfalls in an Esophageal Cancer Genome-Wide Association Study, by Alexander R. Statnikov, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University October 3; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220

September

• Robust Approaches to Reference Interval Determination, by Paul S. Horn, PhD, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati September 28; 2:30-3:30pm, Light Hall, Room 512
• Linux Workshop: Linux Utilities for Exploring Text Files, by Jeffrey Horner, B.S., Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University September 26; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Optimal Mutivariate Matching Before Randomization, by Robert Greevy, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University September 19; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Local False Discovery Rate Estimation Based on Bootstrap Null Distribution of Control Group Samples, by Aixiang Jiang, MS, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University September 12; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Bayesian Spatial Modeling of fMRI data: A multiple-Subject Analysis, by Lei Xu, MS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor September 5; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220

August

• Particle Filtration Approach of Phylogenetic Reconstruction from Genome Rearrangement Data, by Fei Ye, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Cancer Division, Vanderbilt University August 29; 1:30-2:30pm, Room 206 PRB
• Biostatistical Applications in Children Research Projects, by Adriana Pérez, MS,PhD, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health Division of Biostatistics August 22; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220

July

• "A Simple Estimator of the Between-Study Variance in Meta-Analysis", by Jeff Jonkman, PhD, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Mississippi State University July 18; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220

June

• Statistical Proteomics in Chemoprevention Experiments, by Mark Carpenter, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University, June 27; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Analyzing urinary hormone patterns using functional data analysis techniques, by Peter Meyer, Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, June 20; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Likelihood Methods for Measuring Statistical Evidence, by Jeffrey D. Blume, PhD, Center for Statistical Sciences, Brown University and Analytical Edge, Inc., Providence RI, June 13; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Issues in the Analysis of Messy Longitudinal Data with Application to Pediatric Cancer Studies, by Shesh Rai, PhD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital June 12; 9:00-10:00 am, MRBIII 1220
• Cell Lines, Microarrays, Drugs and Disease: Predicting Response to Chemotherapy, by Keith Baggerly, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Division of Quantitative Sciences, UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. June 6; 1:30-2:30 pm, MRBIII 1220

May

• Segmentation of Array CGH Data Using Multiscale Wavelet Transforms, by Xuesong Yu, PhD candidate, University of Washington May 30; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• What is Interaction?, by Chun Li, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University May 23; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Statistical Aspects of Using Gene Expression Profiling for the Development and Validation of Predictive Classifiers, by Richard Simon, DSc, Chief, Biometrics Research Branch, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute May 16; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Exploring the genetics of time-varying Quantitative Trait from longitudinal data -- QTL mapping for a complex trait on pedigrees , by Grace Ge, PhD candidate, University of Washington. May 15; 9 - 10am, MRBIII 1220
• Statistical Games People Should Play, by James H. Steiger, PhD, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, May 9; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Bayesian Latent Variable Models for Fetal Growth and Development, by J. Chris Slaughter, DrPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health, May 2; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220

April

• Sensitivity Analysis Paradigm for the Analysis of Randomized Trials with Informative Drop-out, by Daniel O. Scharfstein, ScD., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health April 18; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• "A group-based trajectory modeling approach to addressing the challenges of determining association among longitudinal patterns of clinical variables.", by Mary Dietrich, Ph.D., School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University April 11; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• There will be no seminar on April 4th.

March

• Linux Workshop, by Dale Plummer, B.S., Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University March 28; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• There will be no seminars on March 14th & 21st.
• A nested case-control design for longitudinal data, by Jonathan Schildcrout, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University March 7; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220

February

• Linux Workshop, by Jeff Horner, B.S. and Cole Beck, B.S., Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University February 28; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Spatial Modeling Approaches to Characterize Experimentally-Induced Alterations in Human Brain Function, by F. Dubois Bowman, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, The Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University February 21; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Proper inference from Simon’s two-stage designs, by Tatsuki Koyama, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Cancer Division, Vanderbilt University February 14; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Representative curves, by Frank E. Harrell, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University February 7; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220

January

• Rhubarb: Data Capture Tool for the Web with R Data Export, by Jeremy Stephens, B.S., Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University January 31; 1:30-2:30pm, D-2221 MCN
• Generalized Linear Models with Unspecified Reference Distribution, by Paul Rathouz, PhD, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago January 17; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Introduction to High-Throughput Screening: A Statisticians View., by Bonnie LaFleur, PhD,MPH, Department of Biostatistics, Cancer Division, Vanderbilt University January 10; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Therapeutic Misconception: How Big an Issue?, by Larry R. Churchill, PhD, Ann Geddes Stahlman Professor of Medical Ethics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center January 3; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220