2008 Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series

December

• Propensity Scores: Recent Developments by Patrick Arbogast, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, VUMC SOM, December 3; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• Ruminations on Statistical Evidence by Jeffrey Blume, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, VUMC SOM, December 10; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• Estimating Re-identification Risk in Biomedical Research Databases by Bradley Malin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatics Dept, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, December 17; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• December 24, 2008 No Seminar/Clinic this date (HOLIDAY) Linux Workshop
• December 31, 2008 No Seminar/Clinic this date (HOLIDAY) Linux Workshop

November

• Applications of Latent Variable Methods in Item Analysis and Survey Scaling, by Irene Feurer, PhD, Research Professor of Surgery and Biostatistics, Director of Quantitative Services and Outcomes Research, VUMC, November 5; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• A Bayesian Hierarchical Nonlinear Mixture Model in the Presence of Artifactual Outliers in a Population Pharmacokinetic Study, by Leena Choi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, VUMC, November 12; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• Biostatistics Ethics Case Conference by Elizabeth Heitman, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society and Daniel Ayers, M.S., Senior Associate in Biostatistics, VUMC, November 19; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• November 26, 2008 No Seminar/Clinic this date (HOLIDAY) Linux Workshop

October

• Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Biological Pathways, by Lily Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, VUMC, October 1; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• On the analysis and interpretation of the results from a questionnaire by Nathaniel D. Mercaldo, MS, Biostatistician II, Department of Biostatistics, VUMC, October 8; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• Cancelled BioVU -- what are the issues?, by Ellen Wright Clayton, MD, JD, Rosalind E. Franklin Professor of Genetics and Health Policy, Professor of Pediatrics, Professor of Law, Director-Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, VUMC, October 15; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• The Rise of Quantitative Decision Making in Clinical Care, by Daniel R. Masys, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, VUMC, October 22; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220
• October 29, 2008 Linux Workshop

September

Welcome Back! Seminar Series resumes September 17, 2008

• QA or Research? Which is which, and why involve the IRB?, by Christopher J. Lindsell, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Research Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati, September 24, 2008; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII 1220
• Better Bayes factors, with applications to clinical trials, by Valen E. Johnson, PhD., Professor, Biostatistics, MD Anderson, September 17; 1:45-2:55pm, MRBIII, Room 1220

August

• Statistical Bioinformatics in Translational Research, by Jae K. Lee, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine August 22; 1:30-3:00pm, R Light Hall, Room 512

July

• "Ethical Standards in Biostatistics: The American Statistical Association's Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice" PART II - Cases and Application by Elizabeth Heitman, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, VUMC July 2; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220

June

• Linux Workshop, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University June 25; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Reproducible Research with R, LaTeX, & Sweave, by Theresa Scott, M.S., Biostatistician III, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine June 18; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Evaluating Subunit Diagnostic Tests by Weighted GEE, by Carol Lin, MPH, PhD, Quantitative Sciences and Data Management Branch NCHHSTP, June 11; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Statistical Methods and Statistical Pitfalls in Biomarker Research, by Frank E. Harrell, Jr., PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine June 4; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220

May

• Linux Workshop, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University May 28; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• When Death was Not the Outcome of Interest: Communicating a match between longitudinal data analysis methods and research aims when follow-up is truncated by death, by Laura Lee Johnson, PhD, Statistician, Office of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), NIH May 21; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• SPECIAL SEMINAR Statisticians on the Inside: Thoughts on writing fundable grants and protocols, by Laura Lee Johnson, PhD, Statistician, Office of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), NIH May 21; 9:00-10:00am, MCN, C2209
• "Ethical Standards in Biostatistics: The American Statistical Association's Ethical Guidelines for Statistical Practice", by Elizabeth Heitman, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, VUMC May 14; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• The Use of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Clinical Trials: Methodological and Biostatistical Considerations, by Jeff A. Sloan, Ph.D., Professor of Biostatistics, Professor of Oncology, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic May 7; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• On the equivalence of some medical cost estimators with censored data, by Hongwei Zhao, Sc.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, NY May 5; 1:30-2:30pm, Light Hall, Room 202 (note special Monday seminar)

April

• Linux Workshop, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University April 30; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• The Cost of Checking Proportional Hazards, by Bryan Shepherd, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt April 23; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• No seminar - this date and time is reserved for the AnnualSupervisorsMeetings. April 16; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Monte Carlo Error Assessment in Statistical Experiments, by Elizabeth Koehler, MS, Department of Biostatistics, April 9; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• The separation of timescales in Bayesian survival modeling of the time-varying effect of a time-dependent exposure, by Sebastien Haneuse, PhD., Assistant Investigator, The Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle April 2; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220

March

• Linux Workshop, General Linux information and security tips, by Jeff Horner, BS, and Jeremy Stephens, BS, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University March 26; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• None (ENAR), March 19; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Comparison of internal validation methods on the procedure of constructing a survival prediction model for proteomic studies, by Chiu-Lan "Heidi" Chen, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Cancer Division, Vanderbilt University March 12; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• A Case Study in Pharmacologic Colon Imaging Using Principal Curves in Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography, by Brian Caffo, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University March 5; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220

February

• Testing Random Effects in the Linear Mixed Model Using Approximate Bayes Factors, by Benjamin Saville, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), Ph.D. Candidate February 27; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• CANCELED Targeted Maximum Likelihood Learning Applied to Clinical Trials and Discovery, by Mark van der Laan, Ph.D., Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics, UC Berkeley February 20; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Survival Estimation for a Composite Outcome When Ascertainment of Events Is Delayed, by T. Charles Casper, PhD Candidate, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, February 13; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Kernel mixtures of Gaussian Processes, by Richard F. MacLehose, MS, Ph.D., National Institute of Environmental Health Services, February 6; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Special Seminar Conflict-of-Interest Concerns in Biomedical Statistics, by Peter B. Imrey, PhD, Quantitative Health Sciences, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, February 4; 2:00-3:00pm, MRBIII Room 3131

January

• Linux Workshop, Beginner's level look at the department twiki, Cole Beck, B.S., Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University January 30; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Potential Problems and Ambiguities Associated with "Well-Fitting" Structural Equation Models, by Andy Tomarken, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Chair, Department of Psychology Vanderbilt University January 23; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• Choosing the Best Items: An objective multi-model approach to applied psychometrics, by Warren Lambert, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, Vanderbilt Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement (CepiProject) and Director of the Statistical and Methodological Core at Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (KC) January 16; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• A Grammar of Graphics: past, present and future, by Hadley Wickham, Iowa State University, January 9; 1:30-2:30pm, MRBIII 1220
• ggplot2: An Implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R, by Hadley Wickham, Iowa State University, January 9; 10:00-11:00am, MCN, C2209
• Winter Holidays - No Workshop on January 2