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Department of Biostatistics Weekly Seminar

The department hosts weekly seminars and workshops for persons interested in applied statistics, statistical theory, epidemiology, health services research, clinical trials methodology, statistical computing, statistical graphics, and R. We will send e-mail announcements to those in the pertinent groups defined at SemEmail, depending on the seminar.

LOCATION: MRBIII, Room 1220 (unless otherwise noted)
TIME: 1:30-2:30pm on the dates indicated in the calendar below.

Contact Tawanna Peters or Stacy Krueger for more information.


Spring 2019



January Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
January 2 NO SEMINAR - Winter break    
January 9 Musings on Statistical Models vs. Machine Learning in Health Research Frank Harrell  
January 16 Modeling Region-Referenced Longitudinal Functional Electroencephalography Data Aaron Scheffler No student discussion
Fri, Jan 18 at 1:30pm
2525 WEA
10th Floor VICTR Conf Rm 		Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects with censored data via fully nonparametric Bayesian accelerated failure time models Nicholas Henderson No student discussion
January 23 Improving Individual Outcomes: Optimizing Stage Duration in a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial (SMART) Hayley Belli Robert Greevy & Tatsuki Koyama
Fri, Jan 25 at 1:30pm
2525 WEA
3rd Floor EPI Conf Rm 338 		Set-based inference for integrative analysis of genetic compendiums ​Ryan Sun No student discussion
January 30 Using observational data to aggregate evidence of clinical efficacy with information on medical costs Andrew Spieker No student discussion



February Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
Fri, Feb 1 at at 1:30pm
2525 WEA
10th Floor VICTR Conf Rm 		A statistical framework for predictive modeling of microbial community data Li Chen No student discussion
February 6 Bridging the gap between noisy healthcare data and knowledge: causality and portability Xu Shi Andrew Spieker
Fri, Feb 8 at 12:00pm
2525 WEA
10th Floor VICTR Conf Rm 		Interpretation of regulatory variants towards deciphering of disease risk Jing Wang No student discussion
February 13 Predicting Inpatient Deterioration: From Quality Improvement to Research Benjamin Goldstein To be led by the speaker
Fri, Feb 15 at 1:30pm
2525 WEA
10th Floor VICTR Conf Rm 		Bayesian Modeling of Latent Heterogeneity in Complex Survey Data Rebecca Anthopolos No student discussion
February 20 Instrumental Variable Methods for Cancer Comparative Effectiveness Studies: Do they help or hurt? Nandita Mitra Amber Hackstadt
February 27 New ICA methods for brain network analysis using neuroimaging data Ying Guo Simon Vandekar



March Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
March 6 NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK    
March 13 Balanced Crystalloids vs Saline:Transforming the ICU into a Learning Healthcare System Matthew Semler Robert Greevy
March 20     No student discussion
March 27 NO SEMINAR - ENAR    



April Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
April 3 Taking a network view of EHR and Biobank data to find explainable multivariate patterns Nick Strayer No student discussion
April 10 The Flourishing Statistical Environment: How Can We Tell? Karen Bandeen-Roche No student discussion
April 17 Evaluation of relative risk model in PheWAS analysis Ya-Chen Lin No student discussion
Fri, April 19 at 1:30pm
2525 WEA
10th Floor VICTR Conf Rm 		An Overview of Modern Counterfactually-Defined Mediation Analysis Shi Huang No student discussion
April 24 Judging Lack of Fit in Complex Regression Models John Fox Bob Johnson



May Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
May 1 Counting viruses: Estimating the size of the latent HIV reservoir Michael Hudgens Bryan Shepherd
May 8 Can we predict success in academic medical research? Felicity Enders Thomas Stewart, unless there is a faculty mtg at 230pm
May 15 Unlocking the "Actome": Characterizing Human Activity and Behavior Patterns Using Smartphone Sensor Data Julian Wolfson Chang Yu
May 22 Finding the Needles in a Haystack: a Journey to Improve Data Quality in EHRs Cindy Chen Ran Tao
May 29 A Statistical Perspective on Challenges and Opportunities in Research Using Real World Data Rebecca Hubbard Leena Choi



June Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
June 5      
June 12 Stress, Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, And You Jim Kendall No student discussion
June 19 Conflict Management Stephanie Dean No student discussion
June 26      



July Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
July 10 Conditional likelihood for two-phase samples, an alternative for non-experts Claudia Rivera Rodriguez No student discussion

Fall 2019



August Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
August 7 Summer Break    
August 14 Summer Break    
August 21 TBD Ronald Wasserstein  
August 28 TBD Yaomin Xu  



September Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
September 4 TBD Tatsuki Koyama  
September 11 A Statistical Leadership Journey Sally Morton  
September 18 TBD Donna Spiegelman  
September 25 TBD Jason Liang  



October Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
October 2 TBD Hannah Weeks  
October 9 TBD Matthew Fox  
October 16 TBD Bradley Malin  
October 23 TBD Wenyi Wang  
October 30 TBD Andrew Tomarken  



November Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
Fri, November 1 at 1:30pm, Location TBD TBD Sarah Lotspeich  
November 6 TBD Anna Plantinga  
November 13 TBD Nathan James  
November 20 TBD Valerie Welty  
November 27 No Seminar: Thanksgiving    



December Title Presenter After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
December 4 TBD Irene Feurer  
December 11 TBD Elizabeth Sigworth  
December 18 No Seminar: Winter Break    
December 25 No Seminar: Winter Break    

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