2018 Biostatistics Seminar Series



January Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
January 3 NO SEMINAR - Winter break    
January 10 NO SEMINAR - Winter break    
January 17 Modeling Continuous Responses Variables Using Ordinal Regression Bryan Shepherd  
January 24 Diagnosing the tipping points of Diseases by Dynamic Network Biomarkers Luonan Chen  
January 31 Causal Inference for a Single Group of Causally-Connected Units Under Stratified Interference Caleb Miles  



February Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
February 7 Modeling Restricted Mean Survival Time under General Censoring Mechanisms Doug Schaubel  
February 14 From variable selection to comparing Bayesian networks Hongmei Zhang  
February 21 Adaptive significance testing for high-dimensional geeralized linear models with application to Alzheimer's Disease Chong Wu  
February 28 Association tests for neuroimaging studies of development and disease Simon Vandekar  



March Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
March 7 NO SEMINAR - Spring break    
March 14 Nature-Inspired metaheuristic algorithms for finding optimal designs for complex biostatistical problems Weng Kee Wong  
March 21 An Introduction to Envelopes Dennis Cook  
March 28 NO SEMINAR - ENAR    



April Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
April 4 An efficient procedure to combine biomarkers with limits of detection for risk prediction Ruth Pfeiffer  
April 11 ​ Quantum Computing and Statistics Valerii Federov  
April 18 Recent Applications of Approximate Message Passing Algorithms for High-dimensional Statistical Estimation Cindy Rush  
April 25 NO SEMINAR - Final Exams    



May Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
May 2 Multiple Imputation of Gait Speed in 400-meter Walk with Time Constraint in the Presence of Non-completers Haiying Chen  
May 9      
May 16      
May 23 Probabilistic Index Model: A Flexible Class of Rank Tests Gustavo Amorim  
May 30      



August Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
August 1 NO SEMINAR - JSM    
August 8      
August 15 (RLH 214)      
August 22 (RLH 214) A Brief History of Time…at Risk: A Review of Competing Risk Methods. Or, Who’s Right, Who’s Wrong, and Who Cares? Peter Rebeiro Robert Greevy
August 29 Minimal Weights for the Design of Observational Studies and Sample Surveys. José Zubizarreta Laurie Samuels



September Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
September 5 Continuous Safety Monitoring in Large Phase I Cancer Clinical Trials with Multiple Dose Expansion Cohorts Masha Kocherginsky Tatsuki Koyama
September 12 Functional Multiple Indicators, Multiple Causes Measurement Error Models Carmen Tekwe NA (dept mtg)
September 19 Statistical Modeling in the Wild: Data Science in Practice Jesse Spencer-Smith Jesse Spencer Smith
September 26      



October Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
October 3 Boosted Sparse Non-linear Distance Metric Learning Tian Zheng Robert Greevy
October 10 Department Faculty Meeting   NA
October 17 Sensitivity Analyses for Unobserved Effect Moderation when Generalizing from Trial to Population Elizabeth Stuart Frank Harrell
October 24 Estimating causal mediation effects from a single regression model Christina Tripp Saunders Jeffrey Blume
October 31 Target Population Risk Prediction with Time-to-Event Outcome Dandan Liu Ran Tao



November Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
November 7 Challenges with Design and Analysis in Immuno-Oncology Trials Keaven Anderson Tatsuki Koyama
November 14 Joint analysis of gene expression and genome-wide association studies reveals genes responsible for common disease risk Nicholas Mancuso  
November 21 NO SEMINAR - Thanksgiving    
November 28 All Department Meeting (faculty, staff, and students) Chris Lindsell  



December Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
December 5 Second-Generation p-values Jeffrey D. Blume Simon Vandekar, Andrew Spieker
December 12 Genomewide analysis of DNA methylation patterns associated with breast cancer risk Fei Ye Yu Shyr
December 19 NO SEMINAR - Winter break    
December 26 NO SEMINAR - Winter break    

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