2009 Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series December * December 30 No Seminar * December 23 No Seminar * December 16 A multivariate methodology for analyzing ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 28 Mar 2014 Active Surveillance Project Questions: * In PCOS data, is there a systematic difference in patients who have complete staging info ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 25 Apr 2012 Amy Howes Job Shadowing Itenerary Friday, June 15, 2012 10:25 AM Come to Medical Center North (MCN) using the entrance at the round ...
Good News Meeting Ground Rules PEOPLE * Aihua "Anna" Bian, Biostatistician I * Steven Chen, Assistant Professor * Mike Guo, Bioinformatics Systems Engineer ...
It is highly recommended that participants attend both the morning and afternoon sessions to take full advantage of the course. However, all interested participants ...
BIOS 346 Homework Guidelines Some formatting recommendations please: * start each problem on a new page * write your name on each page * Staple each problem ...
We currently meet in the small conference room on Fridays at 1:15 2:15. We are reading stories from The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. Oxford Book of American ...
VICTR Biostatistics Consultations (Vouchers) Open Vouchers under new delegation plan (late Nov 2010) Biostatistician PI Project Title Amount approved ...
Main.SherryStokes 11 Aug 2010 Caiqin Liu Itinerary Thursday, August 19, 2010 Candidate arrives in Nashville Friday, August 20, 2010 TIME PERSONS/EVENT MEETING ...
Division of Cancer Biostatistics continuing education Cancer biostatistics journal club Discovery Lecture series * 2011/10/27 Lora Hooper, PhD. "Immune adaptations ...
Active surveillance cohort in CEASAR Aims: * Describe reasons patients come off AS * Describe which patients come off AS. Cohort definition/Inclusion and Exclusion ...
CEASAR Aim 1 with 3 year follow up data This will address the same aim 1 objective comparing treatments with respect to function outcomes that we did for the one year ...
Ceasar Aim 2: What patient factors modify the effect of tx on function? Study questions/goals Main patient factors of interest are race and socioeconomic status: ...
Radiation Therapy in the CEASAR cohort There are several research inquiries falling under XRT in CEASAR. Karen Hoffman is the senior author, and Daniel Lee has been ...
Title: Continuing Education for Masters Biostatisticians Third Thursday of the month. Participants: Tebeb Gebretsadik, William Wu Brief description: The objective ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 09 Nov 2012 Vanderbilt Center for Surgical Quality Outcomes Research Projects on their own page * CeasarData * CeasarProjTxVars * CeasarProject ...
Threshold Results for CES D Ok, thanks. Try to get in touch with me by 2pm if you can. I've finished the parts of the threshold tasks for CES D. I copied the results ...
Baby Books Project Documents Baby Books Research Aims: Here is an editable document that includes prioritized research aims for the Baby Books project. Logic Model ...
Center for Evaluation and Program Improvement (CEPI) Ben Saville and JoAnn Alvarez are currently working with CEPI on the following projects: * Baby Books ...
Questions: * Will the days of the week still have themed topics? For example, currently Wednesday is for surgery and emergency medicine. * Yes but we'll have ...
Biostatistics Clinic Sign In Date:______________ Clinic (circle one):General DBMI Biostat Omics Data Surgical Research Basic Research Position Codes fac ...
BIOS 321: Clinical trials and experimental design (Spring 2014) For students only * Restricted access Instructor * Tatsuki Koyama, PhD, Associate professor ...
Bios 7323: Applied Survival Analysis Summary: This is an introductory course in the analysis of time to event data where censoring and truncation may be present. Upon ...
Main.DianeKolb 18 May 2009 Department of Biostatistics Picnic Saturday, May 30; 11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m.; Centennial Park (Pavilion Behind McDonald's) Potluck Rules ...
Biostatistics Winter Event Friday, December 11; 12:00 p.m. 1:30 p.m.; 898B PRB General Rules * Things don't need to be fancy * Variety, variety, variety ...
Dear Colleagues, With this email, we begin what will be a monthly update that you will receive the first Wednesday of every month. The purpose is to improve communication ...
Question 1: How to treat subjects who died of prostate cancer but did not have any post baseline biopsy ? *Subjects who do not have a post baseline biopsy but are ...
Special Events Announcements Events 10th Anniversary Celebration Lunch with the Chair 12 Noon University Club of Nashville GROUP DAY/DATE NAME of ATTENDEE ...
Fall Picnic/Potluck at the Home of Frank and Liana Harrell Friday, October 5th, 3:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Come join us for games, crafts, snacks and sweets! * All ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 11 Nov 2011 Predicting cardiac effects in breast cancer therapy Meeting notes * Ask Carrie to check value of baseline_adiponectin of " 125000 ...
Tips for Better Presentations * Be sure to motivate the talk by describing the problem you are trying to solve * Consider your audience. If you are addressing ...
Installation Instructions OUT OF DATE new JAGS version was released on 5.12.2010. Page will be updated soon! First, the following should work by itself: sudo apt ...
Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series An EM Algorithm for Mixed Type, Multiple Outcome Regressions with Applications to a Prostate Cancer Study JoAnn ...
Good News PEOPLE * New Faculty and Staff * Abby Burke, Administrative Assistant III * Jing He, Computer Systems Analyst I * Steven Kish, Administrative ...
Introduction to Bayesian Continual Reassessment Method (CRM) for Phase I Clinical Trials JoAnn Alvarez September, 2013 var so = new SWFObject('http://its.vanderbilt ...
Department of Biostatistics Job Shadowing Program Careers in statistics As statisticians, we are in high demand in many different fields. Anywhere research is done ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 19 Aug 2010 First steps Register with the Direct Marketing Association's opt out service. Register with the credit reporting agencies to opt out ...
Kara Newton Job Shadowing Itenerary Wednesday, January 13, 2010 9:50AM Come to Medical Center North (MCN) using the entrance at the round about at the end of Garland ...
Main.SherryStokes 28 Dec 2009 Lixian Sun Itinerary Thursday, January 7, 2010 Candidate arrives in Nashville Friday, January 8, 2010 Transport to VUMC via hotel ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 15 Nov 2012 Sometimes we struggle to pronounce our colleagues' names. Many of the people in our department come from China, where tonal languages ...
Nasha Wang Itinerary Tuesday, September 29, 2009 Candidate arrives in Nashville Wednesday, September 30, 2009 TIME PERSONS/EVENT MEETING LOCATION 9 ...
October 6, 2008 (2:00 3:00PM/MRB III, Room 1220) Good News Special Presentations * Vanderbilt Community Giving Campaign * Representatives from the VUMC ...
Omics Data Clinic Notes and Analyses 2023 December 12 Nicole Malofsky, Biomedical Engineering Determining TB bacteria drug susceptibility is essential to match TB ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 01 Jul 2010 You can run OpenBUGS on a linux machine (once it's installed) in batch mode from within R by running the following R code: system("OpenBUGS ...
Comparison of recovery in open and robotic cystectomy * Single institutional, prospective, non randomized cohort study comparing HRQOL and postoperative nutritional ...
PCOS Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study * Met on July 8, 2013 with Frank Fan. Purpose was for Frank to explain to us the data, its location, and his data manipulation ...
This is where you add new variables for USER_INFO Please attach images to OurPeople with the name "FirstLast.JPG" * Set FRANKHARRELLINFO = Frank Harrell, Ph.D. ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 04 Apr 2013 PRAI Validation Meeting notes 2013 June 14 * Liana is concerned with the association test on ECOG. It has a low estimated Spearman ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 08 Feb 2010 Meeting 2010 February 18 Summary: Discussed questions that Ellen and Peter had about the analysis plan. * There are only two outcomes ...
Configuring R Using html Help Facility Linux users of R version 2.10 and later may want to take advantage of the new dynamic html rendering of help pages. The konqueror ...
R Programming ProgrammingTipsForStatisticians Google's R style guide Handouts and Online Books * S Poetry and R Inferno by Patrick Burns by Patrick J. Burns ...
This page records different errors from using Jeff Horner's redcap package and what the resolution was. I'm using the version here:https://github.com/vubiostat/redcap ...
REDUCE Study Report Components Previous reports To Do for the December 2007 Report (see also 08/24/2006 Meeting Notes) 1(June 2007): page 126, Table 41: Since ...
How to export data from SAS and import to R Here are a few ways to get data from SAS to R with a focus on preserving metadata (labels and formats/factor levels). ...
This should be merged with the existing wiki page SASexportHowto. A Way to Import SAS Data to R With All the Formats and Labels If you have a SAS .sas7bdat file with ...
Main.SherryStokes 08 Jun 2010 Sanil Thomas Itinerary Monday, June 28, 2010 Candidate arrives in Nashville Tuesday, June 29, 2010 Transport to VUMC via hotel shuttle ...
Seminars and Workshop Schedule Planning Possible and definite future speakers 2014 April 16th: Mary Margaret Huizinga, M.D. 9th: Yaoyi Chen 2nd: Paul Harris Ph.D ...
The Statistical Computing Series The Statistical Computing Series is a monthly event for learning various aspects of modern statistical computing from practitioners ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 20 May 2010 Suppose you are using R to conduct your analysis in conjunction with Sweave to get a nice looking report. Suppose further that you are ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 27 Aug 2010 Weaver! weaver can save results that take a long time to run, so that you can save time while you edit other R code chunks or latex ...
List of Vanderbilt Biostatistics Wiki users To edit pages on this site, you must have a registered user name and password. You do not need to register if you just ...
Telephone Counseling project/ Parent's Wisdom Project * Randomized, controlled trial. Intervention is counseling by telephone. The control group didn't really get ...
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VA Health Services Research Group * Set GROUP = ColeBeck, RobertGreevy, XuleiLiu, SamuelNwosu, JoAnnAlvarez, SandeepParvathapuram, TedSperoff, MarieGriffin, ChristianneRoumie ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 02 Oct 2009 Interrater Reliability Study Design 2009 Oct 2 Conference Call Present: JoAnn, Brian , Robert, Ted * Brian likes Robert's proposed ...
IRBNet * https://www.irbnet.org * The VA IRB website is the primary certificates repository. Storing copies there is required. Storing copies here is not necessary ...
Video Learning The Department of Biostatistics is happy to provide you a platform for learning biostatistics via online video lectures. These videos were created on ...
Statistics for Main Web (2008) Month: Topic views: Topic saves: File uploads: Most popular topic views: Top contributors for topic save and uploads ...
Statistics for Main Web (2009) Month: Topic views: Topic saves: File uploads: Most popular topic views: Top contributors for topic save and uploads ...
Surgery, anesthesiology, and emergency and critical care medicine The Biostatistics Clinic on Wednesdays is dedicated to biostatistics applications in surgery, anesthesiology ...
Notes for Wednesday Biostatistics Clinic Archive Current Notes 2013 December 11 Catherine Bulka, Anesthesiology * Wants to demonstrate/examine group balance ...
Main.JoAnnAlvarez 24 Mar 2011 2011 April 4 Present: JoAnn, Warren, Frank Harrell Topic: Randomization plan * We will use random permuted blocks of size 4 and 6 ...