2012 Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series

December

• December 26 NO SEMINAR: Winter Break
• December 19 NO SEMINAR: Winter Break
• December 12 Controlling Global Error Rates in fMRI Data Analysis by Hakmook Kang, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• December 5 Some New Directions in Statistical Computing by Frank E. Harrell, Jr., PhD, Professor & Chair and Jeff Horner, B.S., Computer Systems Analyst III, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

November

• November 28 Cumulative incidence association models for bivariate competing risks data by Yu Cheng, PhD, Department of Statistics, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
• November 21 NO SEMINAR: Thanksgiving holiday
• November 14 R Package Development with RStudio by Jeff Horner, B.S., Computer Systems Analyst III, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• November 7 NO SEMINAR: All Department Meeting

October

• October 31 Utilizing external incidence information for risk prediction with cohort data: Application to WHI Colorectal Cancer Data by Dandan Liu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• October 24 Combining computational models with physical observations for inference and prediction by Dave Higdon, PhD, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• October 17 Multiple Decision-Making in the Face of Uncertainty by Edsel A. Peña, PhD, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina Columbia
• October 10 Unknowns by Robert D. Collins, MD, Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University
• October 3 CANCELED Functional Causal Mediation Analysis with an Application to Brain Connectivity by Martin A. Lindquist, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

September

• September 26 Temporal and Spatial Methods in Imaging Research by Mark Fiecas, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego
• September 19 NO SEMINAR
• September 12 Basics of functional MRI and standard statistical approaches by Baxter P. Rogers, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Radiology & Radiological Sciences, Vanderbilt Unitversity School of Engineering
• September 5 ROCKET – What's New and What's Next? by Paul A. Harris, PhD, Director, Office of Research Informatics Operations, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University

August

• August 29 Modeling Pediatric Growth for Decision Support by S. Trent Rosenbloom, MD MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Seminars starting back August 29th

June

• Summer Break from weekly seminars starting after June 6
• June 6 Disk Diffusion Breakpoint Determination Using an Errors-in-Variables Model Approach by Bruce A. Craig, PhD, Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University

May

• May 30 CANCELED Modeling Pediatric Growth for Decision Support by S. Trent Rosenbloom, MD MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Associate Professor, School of Nursing, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• May 23 Estimating treatment effects with treatment switching via semi-competing risks models: an application to a colorectal cancer study by Qingxia (Cindy) Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• May 16 Identification of a set of signature cell-cycle genes whose relative order of phase is conserved across species by Shyamal D. Peddada, PhD, Principal Investigator, Biostatistics Branch National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH)
• May 9 NO SEMINAR: All Department Meeting
• May 2 Advances in Pure Likelihood Inference: Evidential designs for adaptive phase two trials and The abdication of multiple comparisons adjustments by Gregory D. (Dan) Ayers, M.S., Senior Associate in Biostatistics and Jeffrey D. Blume, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics

April

• April 25 Advances in Pure Likelihood Inference: Evidential designs for adaptive phase two trials and The abdication of multiple comparisons adjustments by Gregory D. (Dan) Ayers, M.S., Senior Associate in Biostatistics and Jeffrey D. Blume, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics
• April 18 NO SEMINAR - Annual Supervisors' Meeting
• April 11 Effectiveness of RSV immunoprophylaxis on RSV induced morbidity in high-risk infants by Pingsheng Wu, PhD, MS, Research Assistant Professor of Medicine & Biostatistics, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• April 4 NO SEMINAR - ENAR Spring Meeting

March

• March 28 Estimating Covariate-Adjusted Log Hazard Ratios in Randomized Clinical Trials using Cox Proportional Hazards Models and Nonparametric Randomization Based Analysis of Covariance by Ben Saville, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• March 21 Semiparametric Latent Variable Transformation Models for Multiple Outcomes of Mixed Types by Anna Snavely, PhD Candidate in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health
• March 15, Thursday Special Seminar (Note time, day and location difference), 4:00pm-5:00pm, 206 PRB Fat Chance: Adventures in Debunking by Russell Lyons, PhD, Professor, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University, Bloomington
• March 14 Theory and application of statistical methods for causal mediation analysis by Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, PhD, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University School of Public Health
• March 7 NO SEMINAR

February

• February 29 Exploring statistical strategies for use in challenge-response experiments by Matthew Shotwell, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• February 22 Good Confidence Intervals for Categorical Data Analyses by Alan Agresti, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, University of Florida
• February 15 Objective Bayes Model Selection in Probit Models by George Casella, PhD, Distinguished Professor, UF Research Foundation Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Florida
• February 8 Optimizing Randomized Trial Designs to Distinguish which Subpopulations Benefit from Treatment by Michael A. Rosenblum, PhD, MS, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• February 1 NO SEMINAR - All Department Meeting

January

• January 25 NO SEMINAR
• January 18 A Bayesian Covariate-Adjusted Response-Adaptive Design with Biomarkers for Targeted Therapies in Cancer by KyungMann Kim, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics, Director of Biostatistics, Carbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• January 11 Identifying Cognitive Antecedents of Alzheimer’s Disease: Longitudinal Extensions of the Multiple Indicators, Multiple Causes (MIMIC) Model by James H. Ware, PhD, Frederick Mosteller Professor of Biostatistics, Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Science, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University School of Public Health
• January 10, Tuesday Special Seminar (Note time, day and location difference), 3:00pm-4:00pm, 898-J PRB Pragmatic Trials by James H. Ware, PhD, Frederick Mosteller Professor of Biostatistics, Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Science, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University School of Public Health
• January 4 NO SEMINAR