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 for more information.

Spring 2020

January	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
January 1	NO SEMINAR - Winter break
January 8	Data Coordinating Centers: Opportunities for the operationally minded	Chris Lindsell	n/a
January 15	Optimal Designs of Two-Phase Studies	Ran Tao	all dept mtg
January 22	Probability-of-Decision Designs to Accelerate Dose-Finding Trials	Tianjian Zhou	Chang Yu
Fri, January 24	Permutation-based inference for spatially localized signals in longitudinal MRI data	Jun Park	n/a
January 29	Polygenic risk scores: Ready for the clinics?	Jonathan Mosley

February	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
February 5	Weighted pairwise likelihood for multilevel models in multistage samples	Thomas Lumley	Jonathan Schildcrout
February 12	Introducing Overlap Weights in Causal Inference	Fan Li	fac mtg scheduled
Fri, February 14	Disjunctive Bayesian Network Infers Cancer Progression Network	Amir Asiaee
February 19	10X single cell RNA sequencing data analysis: from FASTQ to differential expression analysis	Quanhu Sheng
February 26	Causal inference in pragmatic randomized trials	Eleanor Murray	Ran Tao

March	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
March 4	NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK
March 11	NO SEMIMAR
March 18
March 25	NO SEMINAR - ENAR

April	Title	Presenter
April 1	TBD	Elizabeth Slate
April 8	TBD	Simon Vandekar
April 15
April 22	TBD	Elizabeth Sigworth
April 29	TBD	Babette Brumback

May	Title	Presenter
May 6
May 13	TBD	Matt Shotwell
May 20	TBD	Cecile Janssens
May 27	TBD	Peter Gilbert

June	Title	Presenter
June 3
June 10	TBD	Robert Greevy
June 17
June 24

Fall 2020

August	Title	Presenter
August 05	Summer Break
August 12	Summer Break
August 19	Summer Break
August 26	Polygenic risk scores: what are we measuring?	Cecile Janssens

September	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
September 02	Some New developments for neuroimaging inference using the PBJ R package	Simon Vandekar
September 09	Extensions of ordinal cumulative probability models	Yuqi Tian
September 16	A Bayesian model for joint longitudinal and survival outcomes in the presence of subpopulation heterogeneity	Elizabeth Slate
September 23	Data squashing: What is it? How can we improve it?	Matt Shotwell	Robert Greevy
September 30	Assessing immunological biomarker surrogate endpoints in COVID-19 vaccine efficacy trials	Peter Gilbert

October	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
October 07	Moving beyond the comfort zone in practicing translational statistics for clinical studies	Lee-Jen Wei	Robert Greevy
October 14	Building a dose-equivalence model from a Bayesian meta-analysis of published clinical trials	Elizabeth Sigworth	Elizabeth Sigworth
October 21	A unified approach for inference on algorithm-agnostic variable importance	Brian Williamson	Robert Greevy
October 28	Network dependence can lead to spurious associations and invalid inference	Elizabeth Ogburn	Robert Greevy

November	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
November 04	Making Sense of noisy data: Why and how?	Grace Yi	Ran Tao
November 11	Estimating population effects: Generalizing randomized trial findings to a target population	Benjamin Ackerman	Hakmook Kang
November 18	Ways to make randomized clinical trials more statistically efficient	Frank Harrell	Robert Greevy
November 25	NO SEMINAR - Thanksgiving

December	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
December 02	Some methods on distributions for p-values and their applications	Chang Yu	Chang Yu
December 09	Using outcomes to analyze patients rather than patients to analyze outcomes: Re-thinking the clinical trial arithmetic to increase pragmatism	Scott Evans	fac mtg
December 16	On confounding, efficiency, and prospective observational study design	Mary Margaret Ryan	Robert Greevy
December 23	No Seminar: Winter Break
December 30	No Seminar: Winter Break

Spring 2021

January	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
January 06	No Seminar: Winter Break
January 13	Bayesian regression for group testing data	Joshua Tebbs
January 20	Bounding local average treatment effects in studies of engagement with mobile interventions	Andrew Spieker	Andrew Spieker
January 27	Estimating risk in large public health and comparative effectiveness studies	Amber Hackstadt	All-department meeting

February	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
February 03	Direct marginal model analyses of longitudinal, ordinal outcomes with absorbing states	Jonathan Schildcrout	Robert Greevy
February 10	A sequential basket trial design based on multi-source exchangeability with predictive probability monitoring	Alex Kaizer
February 17	Estimating vaccine efficacy over time after a randomized study is unblinded	Marie Davidian
February 24	A nonparametric projection-based estimator for the probability of causation	Maria Cuellar	Faculty meeting

March	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
March 03	Bayesian joint modeling for causal mediation analysis with a binary outcome and a binary mediator	Geneviève Lefebvre	Robert Greevy
March 10	A population pharmacokinetic analysis using real-world data extracted from electronic health records: Last-dosing times and other modeling considerations	Michael Williams
March 17	No Seminar: ENAR
March 24	Design of current and future COVID-19 vaccine efficacy trials	Holly Janes	Faculty meeting
March 31	How much evidence do you need? Data science to inform environmental policy during the COVID-19 pandemic	Francesca Dominici	n/a (talk 2-3pm)

April	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
April 07	Multilevel modeling of spatially nested functional data: spatiotemporal patterns of hospitalization rates in the U.S. dialysis population	Damla Senturk
April 14	Combining batches of high-dimensional multiplexed images	Coleman Harris
*FRI* April 16 @ 1:30p	Statistical considerations in a metastatic melanoma patient-derived xenografts study	Sheau-Chiann Chen
April 21	Shared parameter mixed-effects location scale models for intensive longitudinal data	Donald Hedeker
April 28	Breast cancer among Asian Indian and Pakistani women in the U.S – a SEER-based study	Jaya Satagopan	Faculty meeting

May	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
May 05	Model-based standardization to adjust for confounding by cluster	Babette Brumback
*FRI * May 07 @ 1:30p	Factor analysis in high dimensional biological data with dependent observations	Chris McKennan
May 12	Statistical methods for blinding assessment in randomized controlled trials	Victoria Landsman
May 19	Evidence-based analysis of longitudinal data from randomized clinical trials	Patrick Heagerty
*FRI* May 21 @ 1:30p	Non-inferiority studies with multiple reference treatments	Li-Ching Huang
May 26	FDRestimation: Flexible false discovery rate computation in R	Megan Hollister Murray	All-department meeting

Summer 2021

June	Title	Presenter	After Seminar Student Discussion Leader
June 23	Registration for wearable device data with application to circadian rhythm chronotype discovery	Julia Wrobel

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