The Biostatistics Branch (BB) hosts an ongoing seminar series.
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| Association Mapping of Rare Variants in Samples with Related Individuals | |
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| Date and Time: | Wednesday, May 22nd, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511 |
| Lecturer: | Mary Sara McPeek, PhD Professor Departments of Statistics and Human Genetics University of Chicago |
| Detecting gene-gene interactions in genome-wide case-control studies | |
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| Date and Time: | Monday, April 29th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511 |
| Lecturer: | Weichuan Yu, PhD Associate Professor Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Kowloon, Hong Kong |
| The risk of miscarriage following immunization of the bivalent Human papillomavirus (HPV) 16/18 vaccine: A Bayesian approach | |
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| Date and Time: | Friday, April 26th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511 |
| Lecturer: | Bingshu Eric Chen, PhD Senior Biostatistician, NCIC Clinical Trials Group Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics Queen's University Ontario, Canada |
| Contribution of socioeconomic contextual measures to hepatocellular carcinoma incidence and chronic liver disease mortality | |
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| Date and Time: | Wednesday, April 5th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/7107 |
| Lecturer: | Jacqueline Major, PhD Family Medicine and Community Health University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA |
| A Bivariate Model for Simultaneous Testing in Bioinformatics Data | |
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| Date and Time: | Thursday, March 21th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/7107 |
| Lecturer: | Haim Y. Bar, PhD Cornell University Department of Statistical Science Ithaca, NY |
| Landmark Prediction of Long Term Survival Incorporating Intermediate Event Information | |
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| Date and Time: | Wednesday, February 27th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511 |
| Lecturer: | Layla Parast, PhD Associate Statistician The Rand Corporation Santa Monica, CA |
| Robust Estimation for 'When to Initiate Treatment' in HIV-Infected Persons in the United States | |
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| Date and Time: | Wednesday, February 6th, 10:30-11:30am, EPN-H |
| Lecturer: | Sherri Rose, PhD NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health |
| Microbiome, Metagenomics, and High-dimensional Compositional Data Analysis | |
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| Date and Time: | Wednesday, January 23, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511 |
| Lecturer: | Hongzhe Li, PhD Dept of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine |
| A class of generalized conditionally autoregressive models | |
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| Date and Time: | Friday, December 14th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511 |
| Lecturer: | Veronica Berrocal, PhD Assistant Professor, Biostatistics University of Michigan, Ann Arbor School of Public Health |
| Methods for detecting somatic mutations and driver genes in cancer exomic sequencing studies | |
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| Date and Time: | Monday, October 29th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511 |
| Lecturer: | Xing Hua, PhD Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI |
| Re-ranking Next Generation Sequencing Variants for Accurate Causal Variant Identification | |
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| Date and Time: | Tuesday, September 25th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511 |
| Lecturer: | Laura Faye PhD Candidate University of Toronto |
| Large-scale evidence and meta-research in genomic and molecular epidemiology | |
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| Date and Time: | Wednesday, September 19th, 1:00-2:00pm, EPS/511 |
| Lecturer: | Orestis Panagiotou, MD Research Associate, PhD Candidate Dept of Hygiene and Epidemiology University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Greece |
| Genome-wide localization of protein-DNA binding and histone modification by a Bayesian Change-Point method with ChIP-seq data | |
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| Date and Time: | Tuesday, June 7th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511 |
| Lecturer: | Yifan Mo PhD Candidate Stony Brook University |
| Calibration, Expertise and the Aggregation of Probabilistic Judgments | |
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| Date and Time: | Monday, May 7th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511 |
| Lecturer: | Dr. Steve Hora Director, CREATE Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events University of Southern California |
| Structural Equation Modeling in Behavioral Research | |
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| Date and Time: | Friday, April 27th, 10:00-11:00am, EPS/7107 |
| Lecturer: | Natalia Frishman, MD PhD Candidate Iowa State University |
| The use of the stochastic g-computation formula in causal inference | |
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| Date and Time: | Tuesday, April 24th, 10:00-11:00am, EPS/511 |
| Lecturer: | Rhian Daniel, PhD Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
| Evaluating etiologic heterogeneity among molecular subtypes in colorectal cancer: Obesity and β-catenin expression status in tumor | |
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| Date and Time: | Monday, April 23rd, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/7107 |
| Lecturer: | Aya Kuchiba, PhD Research Fellow Department of Medical Oncology Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School |
| Testing for Genetic Associations Under Arbitrarily Complex Population Structure | |
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| Date and Time: | Tuesday, April 10th, 11:00-12:00pm, EPS/511 |
| Lecturer: | Minsun Song, PhD Post-doctoral Research Associate Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integravie Genomics Princeton University |
| Prediction of county-level cancer incidence rates and counts in the United States | |
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| Date and Time: | Wednesday, March 28th, 1:30-2:30pm, EPS/511 |
| Lecturer: | Binbing Yu, PhD Chief, Biometry Section Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry National Institute on Aging (NIA) |
| Estimation of genetic effects in multiple cases family studies using penalized maximum likelihood methodology | |
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| Date and Time: | Friday, April 6th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/7107 |
| Lecturer: | Roula Tsonaka, PhD Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics Leiden University Medical Center The Netherlands |
| Stochastic Functional Data Analysis: A Diffusion Model-based Approach | |
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| Date and Time: | Thursday, March 15th, 1:30-2:30pm, EPS/511 |
| Lecturer: | Bin Zhu, PhD Post-Doctoral Associate Department of Statistical Science & Center for Human Genetics Duke University |
| Bayesian graphical models for multivariate functional data | |
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| Date and Time: | Wednesday, March 7th 1:30-2:30pm, EPS/6081 |
| Lecturer: | Hongxiao Zhu, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of Statistical Science Duke University |
| Evaluation of removable statistical interaction for binary traits | |
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| Date and Time: | Wednesday, March 7th 9:00-10:00am, EPS/6081 |
| Lecturer: | Jaya M. Satagopan, PhD Associate Member Associate Professor of Public Health Academic Research Track Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| When is a large sample not so large? Non-intuitive behavior in high-throughput association analyses | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 |
| Functional Variants and Human Diversity | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| Date and Time: | Friday, January 14th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511 |
| Lecturer: | Jincao Wu Biostatistics Department University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Estimation of Odds Ratios of Genetic Variants for the Secondary Phenotypes Associated with Primary Diseases: Association of CHRNA5-A3 Genetic Locus to Smoking | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| Date and Time: | Friday, March 12th, 10:30-11:30, EPS/7107 |
| Lecturer: | Doug E. Schaubel, PhD Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan |
| What was your question again? The perils of using observational data to answer questions other than the one you might wish to ask | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| Date and Time: | Friday, January 16th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511 |
| Lecturer: | Faming Liang, PhD Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University |
| Bayesian Inference on Changes in Response Densities over Predictor Clusters | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| Date and Time: | Friday, April 18th |
| Lecturer: | Nysia George PhD Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University |
| Modeling cancer progression via pathway dependencies | |
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| Date and Time: | Friday, April 4th |
| Lecturer: | Sayan Mukherjee PhD Department of Statistical Science, Duke University |
| Disparities in Defining Disparities: Statistical Conceptual Frameworks | |
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| 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 | |
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| Date and Time: | Wednesday, February 6th |
| Lecturer: | Mahlet Tadesse PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Georgetown University |
| Summarizing and Modeling Multi-Locus Linkage Disequilibrium Patterns | |
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| Date and Time: | Friday, December 7 |
| Lecturer: | Sheng Feng PhD Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University |
| Summarizing Statistical Interaction and Sufficient Cause Interaction | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| Date and Time: | Tuesday, June 19 |
| Lecturer: | Sheng Luo Biostatistics Branch, DCEG & Johns Hopkins University |
| Population Structures and Genetic Case-Control Association Studies | |
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| Date and Time: | Friday, April 27 |
| Lecturer: | Gang Zheng PhD Office of Biostatistics Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute |
| Weight change and mortality | |
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| 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 | |
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| Date and Time: | Tuesday, April 10 |
| Lecturer: | Xihong Lin PhD Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University |
| Genetic Studies for Ordinal Traits | |
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| Date and Time: | Wednesday, January 24 |
| Lecturer: | Heping Zhang PhD Department of Biostatistics, Yale University School of Medicine |
| Augmented Designs to Assess Immune Response in Vaccine Trials | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 |
| Estimating Diagnostic Accuracy From Designs With No Gold Standard Evaluation and With Partial Gold Standard Evaluation | |
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| 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? | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| Date and Time: | January 14, 2005, 11 am, EPS 7107 |
| Lecturer: | Aiyi Liu National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH |
| Multiple Testing Procedures for Control of the Generalized Family Wise Error Rate and Proportion of False Positives: Applications in Genomics | |
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| 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 | |
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| Date and Time: | October 5, 2004 |
| Lecturer: | Stefan Bohringer University of Essen, Germany |
| Statistical Methods For Analysis of Microarray Time Course Gene Expression Data | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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) | |
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| 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) | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| Date and Time: | January 30, 2004, 11:00 am, EPS T-41 |
| Lecturer: | Sining Chen Johns Hopkins University |