2013

December

• December 25 NO SEMINAR
• December 18 NO SEMINAR
• December 11 NO SEMINAR
• December 4 Advantages of Transformation in Constrained Parameter Problems by Anindya Roy

November

• November 27
• November 20 Regression modeling of longitudinal binary outcomes with outcome-dependent observation times by Benjamin French
• November 13 Development and Implementation of a Predictive Model for Preemptive Pharmacogenetic Testing Jonathan Schildcrout
• November 6 NO SEMINAR: ALL DEPARTMENT MEETING

October

• October 30 Vaccine Efficacy from the Perspective of a Virus by Dean Follmann
• October 23 Wrangling Data: Data Warehousing and Record Linkage Concepts by Jeremy Stephens
• October 16 Listening Behavior, Personalization and Right targeting by Hyunyoung Choi
• October 9 NO SEMINAR
• October 2 LIKELIHOOD APPROACH FOR EVALUATING BIOEQUIVALENCE OF HIGHLY VARIABLE DRUGS by Liping Du

September

• September 25 Estimation of the standardized risk difference and ratio in a competing risks framework: Application to injection drug use and progression to AIDS after initiation of antiretroviral therapy. by Stephen Cole
• September 18 The utility of Bayesian predictive probabilities for interim monitoring of clinical trials by Benjamin Saville
• September 11 Protecting Your Data by Dale Plummer
• September 4 NO SEMINAR

August

• August 28 Asymptotic vs. Empirical Statistical Inference by Matthew Shotwell

June-July Summer Break (Seminars will resume on August 28th)

May

• May 29 NO SEMINAR: ALL DEPARTMENT MEETING
• May 22 NO SEMINAR
• May 15 NO SEMINAR
• May 8 NO SEMINAR
• May 1 Measurement Errors in Blood Sampling Time in Population Pharmacokinetic Models

April

• April 24 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
• April 17 NO SEMINAR
• April 10 Additive Least Squares Kernel Machine Methods for Analysis of Large Scale Genomic Data by Jennifer Clark, PhD Candidate, Biostatistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• April 3 Department of Biostatistics: VPES Walk-through for Supervisees and Supervisors

March

• March 27 Big Data: From Wow to Now by G. Edward Powell, PhD, CEO of IPX and Chairman of eMD
• March 20 Statistical Methods for Label Fusion: Robust Multi-Atlas Segmentation by Bennett Landman, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University
• March 13 NO SEMINAR: ENAR
• March 6 NO SEMINAR: Spring Break / RMS short course

February

• February 27 A method for systematic community selection in evaluating breast cancer interventions: The use of prior information on mortality data by Vincent K. Agboto, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College
• February 20 NO SEMINAR: Canceled
• February 13 Parallel programming using ACCRE by Zhouwen Liu, M.S., Computer Systems Analyst III, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• February 6 NO SEMINAR: All Department Meeting

January

• January 30 Estimating Time-varying Effects for Over-dispersed Recurrent Events Data with Cross-over Design by Qingxia (Cindy) Chen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• January 23 Wiki Seminar by Cole Beck, B.S., Computer Systems Analyst III, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine ( video)
• January 16 Protecting Your Data by Dale Plummer, M.S., Information Systems Manager, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine ( seminar notes)
• January 9 Jeffrey BlumeJan9 by Jeffrey Blume, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
• January 2 NO SEMINAR: Winter Break