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2012

When is a large sample not so large? Non-intuitive behavior in high-throughput association analyses
Date and Time:	Wednesday, February 1st 10:30-11:30am, EPN/G
Lecturer:	Kenneth Rice, PhD Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics University of Washington

Contrasting age-specific lung cancer mortality trend in California and other parts of the United States
Date and Time:	Thursday, January 26th 10:30-11:30am, EPN/G
Lecturer:	Ahmedin Jemal, PhD Vice President Surveillance Research American Cancer Society

A unified framework for association analysis of multiple related phenotypes
Date and Time:	Wednesday, January 11th 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Matthew Stephens, PhD Professor, Dept of Human Genetics Professor, Dept of Statistics University of Chicago

2011

Functional Variants and Human Diversity
Date and Time:	Thursday, December 15th 10:30-11:30am, EPN/G
Lecturer:	Nicholas J. Schork, PhD Director, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics The Scripps Translational Science Institute Director of Research, Scripps Genomic Medicine Professor, Dept of Molectular and Experimental Medicine The Scripps Research Institute

Multi-stage latent class regression with accommodation for differential item functioning
Date and Time:	Friday, December 9th 10:30-11:30am, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Karen Bandeen-Roche, PhD Professor of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Optimizing Randomized Trial Designs to Distinguish which Subpopulations Benefit from Treatment
Date and Time:	Monday, November 14th 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Michael A. Rosenblum, PhD Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Leveraging age and other covariates to increase power in association studies
Date and Time:	Friday, September 2nd, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Alkes Price, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Harvard School of Public Health

Optical technologies for the detection of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia: algorithm development and novel statistical methodology
Date and Time:	Wednesday, August 24th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Jose-Miguel Yamal, PhD Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston School of Public Health

False discovery rate control in peak-calling for ChIP-seq data analysis
Date and Time:	Tuesday, July 26th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Faming Liang, PhD Professor, Department of Statistics Texas A&M University

Inverse Regression versus Principal Components for regression and classification
Date and Time:	Friday, July 22nd, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Liliana Forzani, PhD Associate Professor Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina

Extended Instrumental Variables Estimation for Overall Effects
Date and Time:	Wednesday, July 6th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Dylan Small, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Statistics The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

A Sequential Combined p-value Test for Multiple Hypothesis Testing and its Application in Significance Analysis in Genomic Studies
Date and Time:	Friday, June 3rd, 11:00-12:00pm, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Shunpu Zhang, PhD Professor, Dept. of Statistics University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Measurement Error Modeling: Concepts and Methods - Part II
Date and Time:	Friday, May 27th, 11:00-12:00pm, 6116/405
Lecturer:	Dr. Raymond J. Carroll Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Nutrition and Toxicology Department of Statistics Texas A&M University

Some statistical techniques for analyzing health disparity and disease trends
Date and Time:	Friday, April 29th, 1:30-2:30pm, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Sarat Dass, PhD Associate Professor, Dept. of Statistics and Probability Michigan State University

What's New in Causal Inference - From Propensity Scores and Mediation to External Validity and Surrogate Endpoints
Date and Time:	Monday, April 11th, 12:00-1:30pm, 6116/405
Lecturer:	Judea Pearl, PhD Professor, Computer Science & Statistics University of CA, Los Angeles

Measurement Error Modeling: Concepts and Methods
Date and Time:	Friday, April 8th, 10:30-11:30am, 6116/405
Lecturer:	Dr. Raymond J. Carroll Distinguished Professor of Statistics, Nutrition and Toxicology Department of Statistics Texas A&M University

Inferring Interactions among Discrete Covariates
Date and Time:	Monday, March 14th, 11:30-2:30pm, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Jun S. Liu, PhD Professor, Dept of Biostatistics Harvard University

You can’t spell Genetic Epidemiology without Epigenetics
Date and Time:	Wednesday, February 23rd, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Margaret Dani Fallin, PhD Associate Professor, Dept of Epidemiology Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Analysis and Replication of Complex Trait Rare Variant Association Studies: Application to Next Generation Sequence Data
Date and Time:	Friday, January 28th, 1:30-2:30pm, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Suzanne M. Leal, PhD Professor, Dept of Melecular and Human Genetics Baylor College of Medicine

Making gene-set analysis interpretable and practical
Date and Time:	Tuesday, January 25th, 10:30-11:30pm, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Simina M. Boca Doctoral Student, Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University

Predicting Treatment Efficacy via Quantitative MRI: A Bayesian Joint Model
Date and Time:	Friday, January 14th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Jincao Wu Biostatistics Department University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2010

Estimation of Odds Ratios of Genetic Variants for the Secondary Phenotypes Associated with Primary Diseases: Association of CHRNA5-A3 Genetic Locus to Smoking
Date and Time:	Thursday, December 7th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Sanjay Shete, PhD Director, Biomathematics and Biostatistics Program, GSBS, Dept of Epidemiology U of Texas - MD Anderson Cancer Center

Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis: Issues and Methods
Date and Time:	Thursday, November 18th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Stephanie Kovalchik Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, UCLA

A unified framework combining co-inheritance and association for the identification of rare variants in complex diseases, with application to autism
Date and Time:	Monday, November 8th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Iuliana Ionita-Laza Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Network Inference by High Dimensional Data
Date and Time:	Monday, October 18th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Pei Wang, PhD Assistant Member, Public Health Sciences Division Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Nonparametric and semiparametric estimation for length-biased and right-censored data
Date and Time:	Wednesday, September 22nd, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Chiung-yu Huang, PhD Mathematical Statistician, Biostatistics Research Branch, NIAID

Mapping Complex Traits in Genetically Admixed Populations
Date and Time:	Friday, August 27th, 10:00-11:00am, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Hua Tang, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Genetics Stanford University

Minimum Disparity Estimate for Continuous Models with Independent and Dependent Data
Date and Time:	Friday, August 20th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Ziliang Li, PhD University of Maryland, College Park

Statistical reproducibility in genomics and surrogate variable analysis
Date and Time:	Tuesday, July 13th, 10:30-11:30, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Jeff Leek, PhD Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Evaluation of the Randomized Placebo-Phase Design for Clinical Trials
Date and Time:	Monday, June 7th, 10:30, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Stephanie L. Shook Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh

Finding rare variants affecting disease risk by genetic matching and a test for mixtures
Date and Time:	Thursday, June 3rd, 10:30, EPN/G
Lecturer:	Kathryn Roeder, PhD Professor, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

Matching Methods for Estimating the Effect on Survival of a Time-Dependent Treatment
Date and Time:	Friday, March 12th, 10:30-11:30, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Doug E. Schaubel, PhD Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan

2009

What was your question again? The perils of using observational data to answer questions other than the one you might wish to ask
Date and Time:	Tuesday, December 1st, 10:30-11:30, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Miguel Hernan, PhD Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health

Analysis of copy number variations using high-density SNP genotyping data and the next-generation resequencing data
Date and Time:	Thursday, November 12th, 10:30-11:30, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Mingyao Li, PhD Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania

A spatial scan statistic for survival data
Date and Time:	Wednesday, October 21st, 11:00am-12:00pm, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Lan Huang, PhD Food & Drug Administration

Hunting for Significance in Large Scale Multiple Testing Problems
Date and Time:	Friday, September 25th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/6005
Lecturer:	Martin Posch, PhD Section of Medical Statistics, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

ABC of Ovarian Cancer Screening – Algorithms, Biomarkers, and Clinical Trials
Date and Time:	Thursday, September 3rd, 10:30-11:30am, EPN/G
Lecturer:	Steven J. Skates, Ph.D. Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Monte Carlo Methods for Statistical Computation and Inference - A 3 Session Short Course
Date and Time:	July 20th, 24th and 29th 2:00-3:00pm, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Faming Liang, PhD Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University

Risk SNPs and Prostate Cancer: Estimation of Relative Risks from Pedigrees by Retrospective Likelihoods
Date and Time:	Wednesday, June 3rd, 10:30-11:30am, EPN/G
Lecturer:	Daniel J. Schaid, PhD Mayo Clinic, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics

An Approximate Conditional Likelihood Approach for Risk Estimation in GWAS and Coefficient Shrinkage
Date and Time:	Monday, June 1st, 10:30-11:30am, EPN/7107
Lecturer:	Arpita Ghosh, PhD Dept of Biostatistics, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Composite Likelihood: Some Biomedical Applications
Date and Time:	Wednesday, May 27th, 11:00-12:00pm, EPS/230
Lecturer:	Kung-Yee Liang, PhD Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, JHU

Threshold Regression and Analytical Time for Survival Analysis With Applications in Epidemiology and Clinical Trials
Date and Time:	Tuesday, April 28th, 10:00-11:00am, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Mei-Ling Ting Lee, PhD University of Maryland, College Park

Improving efficiency of inferences in randomized clinical trials using auxiliary covariates
Date and Time:	Wednesday, April 15th, 11:00-12:00pm, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Marie Davidian, PhD Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University

Correcting for Skewness in QTL Mapping Using Extended Pedigrees and Its Application to Gene Expression Linkage Analysis
Date and Time:	Thursday, March 26th, 10:00-11:00am, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Jianxin Shi, PhD Department of Statistics, Stanford University

Estimating copy number and modeling uncertainty in high-throughput genotyping arrays
Date and Time:	Tuesday, March 10th, 11:30-12:30pm, EPS/6005
Lecturer:	Robert Scharpf, PhD Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University

Semiparametric Estimation and Inference for Distributional and General Treatment Effects
Date and Time:	Monday, March 9th, 10:00-11:00am, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Jing Cheng, PhD Department of Epidemiology & Health Policy Research, University of Florida

Selecting SNPs to Correctly Predict Ethnicity
Date and Time:	Thursday, March 5th, 10:00-11:00am, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Joshua Sampson, PhD Center for Statistical Genetics, Yale University

Recent Developments in Bayesian Nonparametrics with Biological Application
Date and Time:	Thursday, February 26th, 1:00-2:00pm, 6116/405
Lecturer:	Adam Branscum, PhD Department of Biostatistics, Statistics, & Epidemiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington

Smoothing Evaluation of biomarkers as principal surrogate endpoints
Date and Time:	Thursday, February 19th, 10:00-11:00am, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Ying Huang, PhD University of Washington, Seattle

Smoothing Age-Period-Cohort Models: A Generalized Additive Model Approach
Date and Time:	Friday, February 6th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Bei Jiang, PhD Department of Mathematics & Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta

Bayesian Modeling of ChIP-chip Data Using Latent Variables
Date and Time:	Friday, January 16th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Faming Liang, PhD Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University

2008

Bayesian Inference on Changes in Response Densities over Predictor Clusters
Date and Time:	Tuesday, December 16th, 10-11am, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Amy Herring, PhD Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

On parametric bootstrap methods in multi-level models with applications in small area estimation and related problems
Date and Time:	Tuesday, November 18th, 10-12pm, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Partha Lahiri, PhD Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of MD

Meta Analysis for Rare Events
Date and Time:	Monday, November 10th
Lecturer:	Louise Ryan, PhD Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard University

Using the Whole Cohort in the Analysis of Case-Cohort Data
Date and Time:	Thursday, October 30th
Visiting Scholar:	Dr. Norman Breslow Biostatistics School of Public Health, University of Washington & Member of the Biostatistics Program Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Cancer

Efficient Analysis of Associations between Haplotypes and Quantitative Traits in Family Studies
Date and Time:	Friday, June 6th
Lecturer:	Guoqing Diao PhD Department of Statistics, George Mason University

Applications of Nonparametric Bayes Methods in Epidemiology and Genetics
Date and Time:	Thursday, May 15th
Lecturer:	David Dunson PhD Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Mixture Modeling and Outlier Detection in Microarray Data Analysis
Date and Time:	Friday, April 18th
Lecturer:	Nysia George PhD Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University

Modeling cancer progression via pathway dependencies
Date and Time:	Friday, April 4th
Lecturer:	Sayan Mukherjee PhD Department of Statistical Science, Duke University

Disparities in Defining Disparities: Statistical Conceptual Frameworks
Date and Time:	Friday, March 7th
Lecturer:	Xiao-Li Meng PhD Professor & Chair, Department of Statistics, Harvard University

Bayesian variable selection methods for the analysis of genomic data
Date and Time:	Wednesday, February 6th
Lecturer:	Mahlet Tadesse PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Georgetown University

2007

Summarizing and Modeling Multi-Locus Linkage Disequilibrium Patterns
Date and Time:	Friday, December 7
Lecturer:	Sheng Feng PhD Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University

Summarizing Statistical Interaction and Sufficient Cause Interaction
Date and Time:	Tuesday, November 20
Lecturer:	Tyler J. VanderWeele PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago

Hazard and Rate Regression in the Presence of Differential Selection or Termination Probability
Date and Time:	Friday, October 26
Lecturer:	Qing Pan PhD Statistics Department, George Washington University

Analysis of Smoking Cessation Patterns Using a Stochastic Mixed Effects Model with a Latent Cured State
Date and Time:	Tuesday, June 19
Lecturer:	Sheng Luo Biostatistics Branch, DCEG & Johns Hopkins University

Population Structures and Genetic Case-Control Association Studies
Date and Time:	Friday, April 27
Lecturer:	Gang Zheng PhD Office of Biostatistics Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Weight change and mortality
Date and Time:	Monday, April 23
Lecturer:	Hanno Ulmer PhD Department of Medical Statistics, Innsbruck Medical University

Semiparametric Regression of Multi-Dimensional Genetic Pathway Data: Least Squares Kernel Machines and Linear Mixed Models
Date and Time:	Tuesday, April 10
Lecturer:	Xihong Lin PhD Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University

Genetic Studies for Ordinal Traits
Date and Time:	Wednesday, January 24
Lecturer:	Heping Zhang PhD Department of Biostatistics, Yale University School of Medicine

2006

Augmented Designs to Assess Immune Response in Vaccine Trials
Date and Time:	Monday, June 12, 2006, 1:00-2:00 pm, EPS 7101
Lecturer:	Dean Follmann PhD, Assistant Director for Biostatistics, NIAID, Chief Biostatistics Research Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Imputation Variance Estimation by Bootstrap Method for the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
Date and Time:	Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 10:30-11:30 am, EPS 7101
Lecturer:	Yan Li, PhD candidate Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park

Joint Estimation of Haplotype Frequencies and Association in Cohort Studies using Profile Likelihood Solutions
Date and Time:	Friday, January 13, 2006, 11:00-12:00 am, EPS 7101
Lecturer:	Tracy L. Bergemann, PhD University of Minnesota, Division of Biostatistics

2005

Estimating Diagnostic Accuracy From Designs With No Gold Standard Evaluation and With Partial Gold Standard Evaluation
Date and Time:	Friday, November 4, 2005, 1:00-2:00, EPS 7107
Lecturer:	Paul S. Albert Biometric Research Branch, NCI/NIH

Does the Z-score method resolve the neonatal mortality paradox?
Date and Time:	Tuesday, July 5, 2005, 1:00-2:00 pm, EPS 8101
Lecturer:	Enrique Schisterman Epidemiology Branch, NICHD, NIH

Family history of breast and ovarian cancer and the risk of breast carcinoma in-situ
Date and Time:	Thursday, June 2, 2005, 10:30-11:30 am, EPN/G
Lecturer:	Elizabeth Claus, PhD, MD Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health

A Model-based Background Adjustment for Oligonucleotide Expression Arrays
Date and Time:	April 11, 2005, 1:00-2:00 pm, EPS 7107
Lecturer:	Zhijin (Jean) Wu, PhD Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Nonparametric Binary Regression Using a Gaussian Process Prior
Date and Time:	March 11, 2005, 11:00 am, EPS 7101
Lecturer:	Anindya Roy UMBC

False negative report probability: evaluating a claim that there is no association
Date and Time:	February 25, 2005, 10:00 am, EPS 8101
Lecturer:	Sholom Wacholder & Hormuzd Katki DCEG, NCI

On linear combinations of biomarkers to improve diagnostic accuracy
Date and Time:	January 14, 2005, 11 am, EPS 7107
Lecturer:	Aiyi Liu National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH

2004

Multiple Testing Procedures for Control of the Generalized Family Wise Error Rate and Proportion of False Positives: Applications in Genomics
Date and Time:	November 8, 2004, EPS 7107, 11:00-noon
Lecturer:	Mark van der Laan Division of Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley

Likelihood based methods to estimate effects of unobserved, unlinked loci in association studies: applications to the ApoE locus and Alzheimer's disease
Date and Time:	October 5, 2004
Lecturer:	Stefan Bohringer University of Essen, Germany

Statistical Methods For Analysis of Microarray Time Course Gene Expression Data
Date and Time:	July 6, 2004, 10:30am, EPS 7107
Lecturer:	Hongzhe Li UC Davis School of Medicine

Analysis and design of haplotype-tagging studies of complex disease
Date and Time:	June 16, 2004, 1:00 pm, EPS, Room 8101
Lecturer:	Peter Kraft Harvard School of Public Health, Boston

Two-stage Genotyping in Genetic Association (abstract)
Date and Time:	April 27, 2004, 11:00 am, EPS/Room 7107
Lecturer:	Jaya Satagopan Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Genetic Association Studies Using Haplotypes (abstract)
Date and Time:	April 13, 2004, 1:00-2:00 pm, EPS T-41
Lecturer:	Glen A. Satten National Center for Environmental Health, CDC, Atlanta

Exploiting Gene-environment Independence in Population- and Family-based Case-control Studies
Date and Time:	March 11, 2004, 10:30 am, EPN/G
Lecturer:	Nilanjan Chatterjee National Cancer Institute

Validation of Models for Prediction of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations
Date and Time:	January 30, 2004, 11:00 am, EPS T-41
Lecturer:	Sining Chen Johns Hopkins University

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