BIOSTATISTICS STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
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Biostatistics Student Presentations 2013
Date
Presenter
Topic
Aug. 16, 1 p.m.
Mayo A301
Yiwei Zhang
Two Topics in Association Analysis of
DNA Sequencing
Aug. 16, 10 a.m.
Mayo A301
Hwanhee Hong
Hierarchical Bayesian Methods for
Multiple Outcomes in Mixed Treatment
Comparisons
Aug. 14, 1 p.m.
Mayo D199
Craig Meyer
Associations of Self-reported
Depression and Racial Discrimination
with Brain Tissue Volumes: The
CARDIA Study
Aug. 2, 10 a.m.
Mayo A301
Heather Jerry
Sequential Stratification Methods
Applied to the Women's Health Initiative
Observational Study Data
July 30, 10 a.m.
Mayo A301
Harrison Quick
Spatiotemporal Gradient Modeling with
Applications
July 10, 1 p.m.
Mayo D199
Tingting Zhao, master’s
candidate
Two-part Mixture Model for Cigarette
Purchase Task Data
July 2, 9 a.m.
Mayo A110
Sharmistha Guha,
master’s candidate
A Powerful Parsimonious Tree based
Model Averaging Approach for
Detection of Multi-Locus Effects
June 10, 10 a.m.
Mayo D199
Jaejoon Song
The Association of Two Correlated
Biomarkers, Each Measured with Error,
on Clinical Outcome
June 7, 1 p.m.
Mayo A301
Xiaohui Cui, master’s
candidate
Plan B advisor: John
Hughes
Implementing Pseudolikelihood and
Bayesian Inference for the Centered
Autologistic Model in R and C++
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1tNr3wmXnaFNUBAvfhKXomrvkW8_3qI_8HdL
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Feb 13, 2 p.m.
Mayo A110
Brad Lewis, master’s
candidate
Plan B advisor: Dipankar
Bandyopadhyay
0-1 Augmented Beta Regression using
the SAS NLMIXED Procedure
Biostatistics Student Presentations 2012
Monday, March
26, 10 a.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Wenjie Liao,
Masters candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor:
Xianghua Luo
Topic: Analysis of Drug Purchase Task
Instrument Data: A Statistical Perspective
Tuesday, March
27, 11 a.m.
Mayo A434
Presenter: Rajarshi
Guhaniyogi, Ph.D
candidate in
Biostatistics
Ph.D. Advisor: Dr.
Sudipto Banerjee
Topic: Modeling Complex Spatial
Dependencies: Low-rank Spatially-varying
Cross-covariances with Application to Soil
Nutrient Data
Tuesday, April
17, 9 a.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Liangxing
Zou, Masters candidate
in Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Jim
Hodges
Topic: Evaluation of Nephrotoxicity of De
Novo Rapamune Use and Association
between ESRD and Baseline Urine Albumin
and Protein in Kidney-Transplant Recipients:
A Longitudinal Observation Study
Friday, May 11,
1:15 p.m.
Mayo A110
Presenter: Patrick
Hilden, Masters
candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor:
Dipankar
Bandyopadhyay
Topic: Analysis of Correlated Count Data
with Excess Zeros via the SAS NLMIXED
Procedure
Tuesday, May 15,
10 a.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Xiaoye Ma,
Masters candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Haitao
Chu
Topic: Statistical Methods for Meta-analysis
of Diagnostic Tests
Wednesday, May
23, 1 p.m.
Mayo A110
Presenter: Kristopher
Kapphahn, Masters
candidate in
Topic: Effects of Covariate Missingness and
Bias Reduction Strategies for Network Effect
Inference in Social Network Data
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1tNr3wmXnaFNUBAvfhKXomrvkW8_3qI_8HdL
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Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Richard
MacLehose
Monday, June 11,
11 a.m.
Mayo D199
Presenter: Donghwi
Shin, Masters
Candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Jim
Neaton
Topic: Handling Missing Data in Clinical
Trials: A Case Study of Different Estimands
for Comparing Treatments in a Clinical Trial
of Chronic Pain
Monday, July 16,
3 p.m.
CCBR Ballroom
Presenter: Christopher
Miller, Masters
Candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Julian
Wolfson
Topic: ThrEEBoost: Thresholded EEBoost
Algorithm for Prediction and Variable
Selection with High-Dimensional Data
Tuesday, July 24,
2 p.m.
Mayo D199
Presenter: Sarah
Verdoliva, Masters
Candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Cavan
Reilly
Topic: A Bayesian Approach to Test for
Differences in Paired Metabolomics Data
with Many Zeros
Thursday, July
26, 10:30 a.m.
Mayo D199
Presenter: Kristen
Cunanan, Masters
Candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Joe
Koopmeiners
Topic: Evaluating the Performance of Copula
Models under Model Misspecification in
Phase 1 Clinical Trials
Wednesday, July
25, 10 a.m.
Mayo 1250
Presenter: Sunkyung
Kim, Ph.D. Candidate in
Biostatistics
Ph.D. Advisor: Wei Pan
Topic: New Penalized Regression
Approaches to Analysis of Genetic and
Genomic Data
Friday, August
17, 10 a.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: João Vitor
Dias Monteiro, Ph.D.
Candidate in
Biostatistics
Ph.D. Advisor: Sudipto
Banerjee
Topic: Process-based Bayesian Melding of
Occupational Exposure Models and Industrial
Workplace Data
Tuesday, August
21, 10 a.m.
Presenter: Wei Zhong,
Ph.D. Candidate in
Topic: Bayesian Adaptive Designs in Phase
I/II Clinical Trials
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1tNr3wmXnaFNUBAvfhKXomrvkW8_3qI_8HdL
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Mayo A301
Biostatistics
Ph.D. Advisors: Brad
Carlin & Joe
Koopmeiners
Thursday, August
30, 12 p.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Shuzhen Li,
Ph.D. Candidate in
Biostatistics
Ph.D. Advisor: Lynn
Eberly
Topic: Statistical Modeling of Signal
Detection in fMRI Data
Friday, August
31, 2 p.m., Mayo
A434
Presenter: Qian Ren,
Ph.D. Candidate in
Biostatistics
Ph.D. Advisor: Sudipto
Banerjee
Topic: On Some Computational, Modeling
and Design Issues in Bayesian Analysis of
Spatial Data
Thursday,
September 27,
1.30 p.m., Mayo
A301
Presenter: Rachel
Roberts, Masters
Candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Lynn
Eberly
Topic: Temporal Analysis for the
Characterization of Postural Sway Dynamics
and Complexity in Schizophrenia
Biostatistics Student Presentations 2011
Tuesday, Dec.
13,11:30 a.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Kelsey Walt,
masters candidate in
Biostatistics PhD Advisors:
Dr. Kyle Rudser
Topic: Using Relative Risk Regression to
Estimate the Risk of Otitis Media in
Minnesota American Indians under the
Age of Two
Friday, Dec. 9,
9:30 a.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Ran Li, PhD
candidate in Biostatistics
PhD Advisors: Dr. Baolin
Wu and Dr. Brad Carlin
Topic: Statistical Methods for Gene Set
Based Prediction and Clustering Analysis
of Microarrays
Friday, Nov. 4, 10
a.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Xiting Cao, PhD
candidate in Biostatistics
PhD Advisors: Dr. Baolin
Wu and Dr. Wei Pan
Topic: Statistical Methods for Multi-class
Differential Gene Expression Detection
Wednesday, Oct.
19, 12:30 p.m.
CCBR Ballroom
Presenter: Liying Luo,
Masters candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Jim Hodges
Topic: Assessing Validity and Application
Scope of an Intrinsic Estimator Approach
to the Age-Period-Cohort Problem
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1tNr3wmXnaFNUBAvfhKXomrvkW8_3qI_8HdL
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Monday, Sept.
19, 2:30 p.m.
CCBR Ballroom
Presenter: Li-Yu Lin,
Masters candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor:Lynn Eberly
Topic: Epilepsy Incidence in United
States Nursing Home
Wednesday,
Sept. 14, 1:50
p.m.
Mayo D199
Presenter: Lingzhi Li,
Masters candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Weihua
Guan
Topic: Selection in Multi-maker Test for
Genetic Association
Thursday, Sept.
1, 2:30 p.m.
Mayo D199
Presenter: Jing Zhang,
Masters candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Haitao Chu
Topic: Bayesian Inference for Casecontrol Studies with Multiple Non-gold
Standard Exposure Assessments: with
an Application in Occupational Health
Tuesday, Aug.
30, 3 p.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Yan Hu, Masters
candidate in Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Daniel
Sargent
Topic: Sample Size Calculation for a
Flexible Screening Trial
Friday, Aug. 26,
1:30 p.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Xiaoyan Sheng,
Masters candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisors: Lynn
Eberly and James Hodges
Topic: Some Operating Characteristics of
the Random Survival Forest Algorithm
Thursday, Aug.
25, 10 a.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Andrew Wey,
Masters candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Kyle
Rudser
Topic: Recursive Partitioning Based
Weights for Censored Quantile
Regression
Monday, Aug. 8,
1 p.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Laura Hatfield,
Ph.D candidate in
Biostatistics
Ph.D. Advisor: Brad Carlin
Topic: Bayesian Hierarchical Joint
Modeling for Longitudinal and Survival
Data
Friday, July 1, 10
a.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Sang Mee Lee,
Ph.D candidate in
Biostatistics
Ph.D. Advisors: Baolin Wu
and Wei Pan
Topic: Statistical Methods for Gene Set
Based Significance Analysis
Monday, June 20,
1:30 p.m.
Presenter: Binglin Yue,
Masters candidate in
Topic: Commonality Analysis for Survival
Data, with an Application to Data from
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1tNr3wmXnaFNUBAvfhKXomrvkW8_3qI_8HdL
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Mayo 1250
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Xianghua
Luo
Breast Cancer Patients with Newly
Diagnosed Brain Metastases
Wednesday, May
4, 1 p.m.
Mayo D325/D327
Presenter: Thomas Murray,
Masters candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan
Topic: Empirical Comparison of
Comorbidity Adjustment Techniques in
Dialysis Populations
Friday, Feb. 11, 2
p.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Paul Zantek,
Masters candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Tim
Hanson
Topic: Estimation and Testing of
Decision-Dependence in Stochastic
Processes with Application to Reliability
of Repairable Systems
Biostatistics Student Presentations 2010
December
17, 8:30 a.m.
Mayo D199
Presenter: Yaming Chen,
Masters candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: John
Connett
Topic: Comparison of Negative-Binomial
and Extra-Poisson Models for Overdispersed Count Data: A Simulation-based
Study
December
15, 3:10 p.m.
Mayo A434
Presenter: Xiaoxiao Kong,
Ph.D. candidate in
Biostatistics
Ph.D. Advisor: Cavan Reilly
Topic: Motif Discovery with Conditional Loglinear Models
September
27, 1:30 p.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Pei Li, Ph.D.
candidate in Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Sudipto
Banerjee
Topic: Bayesian Approaches for Detecting
Boundaries in Areally-Referenced Datasets
September
10, 1 p.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter:Chong Luo,
Master’s candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan
Topic: A Two-Step Algorithm in Penalized
Regression with Networked Predictors
August 25,
10 a.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Brian Hobbs,
Ph.D. candidate in
Biostatistics
Topic: Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for
Adaptive Incorporation of Historical
Information in Clinical Trials
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1tNr3wmXnaFNUBAvfhKXomrvkW8_3qI_8HdL
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Ph.D. Advisor: Brad Carlin
August 24, 1
p.m.
Mayo A110
Presenter:Akweley Ablor,
Master’s candidate in
Biostatistics
Ph.D. Advisor: Will Thomas
Topic: Influence of Childhood Victimization
on Risk of Vulvodynia: Modeling Odds
Ratios and Interaction in Matched Case
Control Data
August 19,
10 a.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Eddie Bendert,
Master’s candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Kyle Rudser
Topic: Design Considerations in the
Presence of Subgroups with Different
Expected Treatment Effects
August 12, 2
p.m.
Mayo A110
Presenter: Adrian Tan,
Master’s candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Saonli Basu
Topic: Effects of Population Stratification on
Logistic Regression and an Alternative to
Achieving Greater Power
August 11,
10 a.m.
CCBR
Ballroom
Presenter: Anne Eaton,
Master’s candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Patricia
Grambsch
Topic: Comparing the Effects of Various
Methods for Estimating Survival with
Prevalent Cohort Data under Violation of the
Independent Truncation Assumption
August 5, 2
p.m.
Mayo A110
Presenter: Ning Chen,
Master’s candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly
Topic: Immortal Time Bias resulting from an
Incident Event Following an Incident
Exposure
July 21, 10
a.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Emily Zabor,
Master’s candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Brad Carlin
Topic: Adaptive Controlled Dose Escalation
with Multiple Individual Covariates for Phase
I Clinical Trials
July 9, 1 p.m.
Mayo A301
Presenter: Brunna Alves,
MPH candidate in
biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Melanie Wall
Topic: Examing the Association of
Postpartum Weight Retention with
Gestational Weight Gain
July 7, 10
a.m.
Mayo A110
Presenter: Jonathan
Chipman Master’s Candidate
in Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Jim Neaton
Topic: Motivating DSMB Discussion
Regarding START Risks and Benefits and
Whether to Recommend Continuing or
Stopping START at Interim Analyses
June 30, 1
p.m.
Mayo A110
Presenter: Wei Feng
Master’s candidate in
Biostatistics
Topic: Comparison of Combination Methods
in Pathway-based Analysis
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1tNr3wmXnaFNUBAvfhKXomrvkW8_3qI_8HdL
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Plan B Advisor: Saonli Basu
June 30, 10
a.m.
Mayo A110
Presenter: Ryan Shanley
Master’s candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Xianghua
Luo
Topic: A Comparison of Two New
Prognostic Indices for Breast Cancer
Patients with Brain Metastases Using Cox
Regression and Recursive Partitioning
June 15, 1
p.m.
Mayo A110
Presenter: Gayle Johnson
Master’s candidate in
Biostatistics Plan B Advisor:
Richard MacLehose
Topic: “Uterine Fibroids and Time to
Conception”
June 15, 9:30
a.m.
Mayo A110
Presenter: Nan Zhang
Master’s candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Richard
MacLehose
Topic: ”The Influence of Childhood Social
Support and Lifetime Victimization on Risk
of First Onset of Depression during the Late
Reproductive Years”
June 11,
10:30 a.m.
May A110
Presenter: Jiayan Huang
Master’s candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: John
Connett and Rob Leduc
Topic: Comparison of Several Methods of
Hierarchical Cluster Analysis Applied to
Continuous and Categorical Data
May 21,
10:30 a.m.
Mayo D199
Presenter: Jeremiah Menk
Masters Candidate in
Biostatistics Plan B Advisor:
Melanie Wall
Topic: An Evaluation of Model Based and
Algorithmic Based Methods for Clustering
Dichotomous Data
May 18, 10
a.m.
Mayo A434
Presenter: Hui Zhou
Masters Candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan
Topic: Penalized Joint Regression Modeling
of Partial Correlations with Application to
Detecting Altered Gene Networks
May 17, 10
a.m.
Mayo D199
Presenter: Fang Han
Masters Candidate in
Biostatistics
Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan
Topic: Latent Multivariate Gaussian Model
for Multiple SNPs in Linkage Disequilibrium
with application to Genetic Association
Testing
April 20, 3
p.m.
Mayo A434
Presenter: Wenjun Kang
Plan B Advisor: Melanie Wall
Topic: “Exploring the Effects of Including
Spatial Random Effects in Disease Mapping
Using the SAS GLIMMIX Macro”
Jan. 20, 12
Presentor: Olive Buhule
Topic: Modeling Diabetes Mellitus Disease
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1tNr3wmXnaFNUBAvfhKXomrvkW8_3qI_8HdL
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p.m.
Mayo A301
Plan B Advisor: Tim Hanson
Progression
Biostatistics Student Presentations 2009
Friday
January 23
9:45AM
Mayo A301
Yufen Zhang
PhD Advisor: Jim
Hodges
Extending Smoothed Analysis of Variance to New
Problems
Wednesday
May 27
2:00pm
Mayo D199
Jessica
Musselman
Plan B Advisor:
Melanie Wall
Development of Childhood Home Environment
Dimensions related to Alcohol Consumption Behaviors: A
latent variable analysis of the SSAGA
Friday
June 5
9:00am
Mayo A110
Qian Ren
Plan B Advisor:
Sudipto Banerjee
Variational Bayesian Method for Spatial Data Analysis
Thursday
June 18
10:00am
Mayo 1250
Peng Wei
PhD Advisor: Wei
Pan
Network-based Mixture Models for Genomic Data
Friday
June 26
1:00pm
Mayo A110
Lijuan Shen
Plan B Advisor:
Brad Carlin
Bayesian Change Point Survival Analysis of Androgen
Suppression Therapy Utilization Patterns for Men with
Prostate Cancer, 2000-2005
Wednesday
July 8
11:00am
Mayo A110
Matt Rousseau
Plan B Advisor:
Xianghua Luo
Determining the Impact of Donor KIR Genotypes on AML
Patients Who Underwent HCT Using Ordinary and
Competing Risks Survival Data
Thursday
July 9
10:00am
Mayo A301
Matt DeyoSvendsen
Plan B Advisor:
Tracy Bergemann
Estimation of Gene-Gene Interactions in Case-Parent
Triad Studies in the Presence of Missing Data
Wednesday
August 12
Yanni Zhu
PhD Advisor: Wei
Network-Based Support Vector Machines for
Classification of Microarray Gene Expression Data
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1tNr3wmXnaFNUBAvfhKXomrvkW8_3qI_8HdL
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1:00pm
Mayo D199
Pan
Wednesday
August 12
2:00pm
Mayo A110
Keegan
Hasselmann
Plan B Advisor:
David Nelson
Simulation to Evaluate Methods for Combining Propensity
Stratification with Methods to Address Missing
Confounders in Observational Studies
Friday
August 14
11:00am
Mayo A301
Stacia Kraus
Plan B Advisor:
Sue Duval
Coronary Artery Plaque Formation and Location in High
Intensity, Long Term Athletes
Wednesday
August 19
1:00pm
Mayo A110
David Schladt
Plan B Advisor:
Saonli Basu
Genetic-based Association between Select UGT Drug
Metabolizing Genes and Plasma Triglyceride and
Lipoprotein Lowering Response to Fenofibric Acid
Thursday
August 20
1:00pm
Mayo D199
Wei Zhong
Plan B Advisor:
Wei Pan
Power Comparison of Statistical Tests of Association with
Multiple SNPs with the GAW 16 Rheumatoid Arthritis
Data
Wednesday
August 26
2:30pm
Mayo A110
Yafeng Zhang
Plan B Advisor:
Patricia
Grambsch
Estimating the Effect of Highly Active Antiretroviral
Therapy on Death, AIDS and CD4 Cell Counts Decrease
in HIV-infected patients with High CD4 Cell Counts using
Marginal Structural Models
Monday
November
9
2:00pm
Mayo A434
Xiaochun Zhu
Plan B Advisor:
John Connett
Simulation Based Comparison of Estimation of Power by
Negative Binomial Model and Life Table Method in
Analysis of Count Data
Biostatistics Student Presentations 2008
Wednesday
January 16
10:00 AM
Mayo A110
Luping Zhao
PhD Advisors: Tim
Hanson and Brad
Carlin
Mixtures of Dependent Polya Trees in the Proportional
Hazards Model
Monday
Juanran Feng
Predictation of Glomerular Filtration Rate from Serum
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1tNr3wmXnaFNUBAvfhKXomrvkW8_3qI_8HdL
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January 28
2:00 PM
Mayo A434
Plan B Advisor:
William Thomas
Creatinine and Cystatin C in Kidney Transplant
Patients
Friday
April 4
9:00am
Mayo A110
Joshua Rapkin
Plan B Advisors:
James Neaton and
Tim Hanson
Applying the Varying Location and Dispersion
Accelerated Failure Time (VLDAFT) Model to the
Flexible Initial Retrovirus Suppressive Therapies
(FIRST) Trial
Friday
April 11
1:00pm
Mayo A301
Xiaobo Liu
Plan B Advisor:
William Thomas
Illness-Death Model for Cystic Fibrosis Related
Diabetes
Wednesday
April 16
3:45 PM
Mayo A434
Qun Shi
Plan B Advisor: Jim
Hodges
Mechanism of the Bacteriophage ø29 DNA-Packing
Motor
Friday
May 2
2:30pm
CCBR
Ballroom
Rachel Isaksson
Plan B Advisor:
James Neaton
Simulation to Estimate Sample Size for the Strategic
Timing of Anti-Retroviral Treatment (START) Trial
Monday
May 19
1:00 pm
Mayo A110
Laura Hatfield
Plan B Advisor:
Brad Carlin
Spatiotemporal and Threshold Models for Relating UV
Exposures and Skin Cancer in the Central United
States
Tuesday
June 24
2:30pm
Mayo A434
Zhenyu Pan
Plan B Advisor: Tim
Hanson
Bayesian Model Comparison on Cattle
Abortion Data
Friday
July 11
9:30am
Mayo A301
Haowen Cai
Plan B Advisor:
Sudipto Banerjee
Hierarchical modeling for spatially-referenced
longitudinal data with applications to crop growth
Thursday
July 17
9:30am
Mayo A301
Jonathan Johnson
Plan B Advisor:
Chap Le
Impact of Weight Loss on Circulating ReninAngiotensin Hormones
Friday
Xiao Liu
Analysis of Incomplete Longitudinal Data: Anti-tumor
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1tNr3wmXnaFNUBAvfhKXomrvkW8_3qI_8HdL
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July 25
1:00pm
Mayo A301
Plan B Advisor:
Xianghua Luo
Activities of Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Monday
July 28
1:00pm
Mayo A301
Ann M. Brearley
Plan B Advisor:
Lynn Eberly
Reliability of Breast Cancer MRS Biomarker
Concentration Measurements
Thursday
August 21
3:00pm
Mayo A434
Jiaqi Yang
Plan B Advisor:
Baolin Wu
A Statistical Method for Improved Genotype Calling of
High-Throughput SNP Arrays
Tuesday
August 26
10:00am
Mayo A110
Katie Schomaker
Plan B Advisor:
Hongfei Guo
Evaluating the Treatment Effect with Actigraphy Data:
A Comparison of Two Methods of Data Analysis
Wednesday
August 27
10:00am
Mayo D199
Benhuai Xie
Ph.D. Advisor: Wei
Pan
Variable Selection in Penalized Model-Based
Clustering
Wednesday
August 27
2:30pm
Mayo D199
Xiting Cao
Ph.D. Advisor:
Baolin Wu
Empirical Bayes Modeling with Optimal Discovery
Procedure for Improved Significance Testing of
Microarray Data
Wednesday
September
3
2:30pm
Mayo A434
Wei He
Plan B Advisor: Tim
Hanson
Longitudinal Analysis of the Association between
Childhood and Adolescence Violence Victimization
and Menstrual Cycle Length During the Late
Premenopausal Years
Wednesday
September
17
2:00pm
CCBR
Ballroom
Shengde Liang
Ph.D. Advisor: Brad
Carlin
Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling of Geostatistical and
Spatial Point Process Data
Friday
September
19
3:00pm
Melissa Warden
Plan B Advisor:
Sudipto Banerjee
Spatial data analysis suite in open-source software:
GRASS and R A tutorial using West Nile virus in
Minnesota in 2005
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Mayo A434
Thursday
October 2
11:15am
Mayo A301
Qingqing Yang
Plan B Advisor:
Melanie Wall
Multiple Latent Class Analysis
Friday
October 3
11:15am
Mayo A434
Christopher
Anderson
Plan B Advisor:
Patricia Grambsch
An Update to the Rate Tables for the Survival Package
in S-Plus/R
Friday
October 17
10:00am
Mayo A301
Jianmin Liu
Plan B Advisor:
Judy Punyko
Comparison of Imputation Methods for Survey Data
Monday
October 27
9:30am
Mayo A434
Nick Wold
Plan B Advisor:
Lynn Eberly
Self-Rated Health and Depression: A Cross-Sectional
Study of Women in Rural Nicaragua
Friday
October 31
10:00am
Mayo A434
Hua He
Plan B Advisor:
Saonli Basu
Power of Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction, Pairwise Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction and
Penalized Logistic Regression for Detecting GeneGene Interaction in a Case-Control Study
Monday
November
17
12:45pm
Mayo A434
Feng Tai
Ph.D. Advisor: Wei
Pan
Incorporate Gene Network Structure into Bayesian
Variable Selection
Monday
November
24
2:30pm
Mayo A434
Xiang Li
Plan B Advisor: Na
Li
Single-SNP Association Analysis in Genome-wide
Association Studies
Monday
December 8
10:00am
Mayo A434
Meijuan Li
Ph.D. Advisor:
Cavan Reilly
Statistical Models for a Censored Quantitative Trait
and Candidate Genes Association Mapping in
Structured Populations with Multilevel Genetic
Relatedness
Monday
December
Qinlei Huang
Plan B Advisor:
Estimating Average Treatment Effects on the
Alcoholism Abstinence using Propensity Score and
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2:00pm
Mayo A434
Melanie Wall
Non-Response Weighting Adjustments
Biostatistics Student Presentations 2007
Friday
February 9
10:00 AM
Mayo D325
Hong Ge
Plan B Advisor:
Melanie Wall
Longitudinal Trends in Quality of Life and Predicting
Survival in Heart Failure Patients
Friday
February 23
11:30 AM
Mayo A110
Na Yuan
Plan B Advisor:
John Connett
Comparison of the Matching on Propensity Score and
on Multiple Variables in Studying the Relationship
Between Beta Carotene and Lung Cancer in The
Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) Study
Monday
March 5
2:30 PM
Mayo A434
Yi Peng
Plan B Advisor:
Lynn Eberly
Likelihood Ratio Test of Variance Components in
General Linear Mixed Model comparing Group-Specific
Random Intercepts to Group-Specific Random
Intercepts and Slopes
Wednesday
March 7
10:00 AM
CCBR
Ballroom
Brian Hobbs
Plan B Advisor:
Brad Carlin
Practical Bayesian Design and Analysis for Drug and
Device Clinical Trials
Friday
March 23
1:00 PM
Mayo A110
Dan Wang
Plan B Advisor:
Chap Le
Implementation of Goodman’s and Piantadosi’s
Continual Reassessment Methods
Tuesday
April 3
3:30 PM
CCBR
Ballroom
Tarek Haddad
Plan B Advisor:
Jim Hodges
Smoothing Interactions in Analysis of Variance Using
the Simplex Priors
Monday
April 9
2:00 PM
Mayo A434
Hua Tian
Plan B Advisor:
Melanie Wall
Applied Statistical Analysis on Rat Tumor Data
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Monday
April 23
1:00 PM
CCBR
Ballroom
Nicholas Salkowski
Plan B Advisor:
Tim Hanson
Modeling Association in Bivariate Ordinal Responses:
Two Approaches and a New SAS Macro
Wednesday
May 30
2:30 PM
Mayo 1250
Ran Li
Plan B Advisor:
Melanie Wall
Multiple Indicator Hidden Markov Modelwith an
Application to Medical Utilization Data
Monday
June 25
9:30 AM
Mayo D199
Min Xi
Plan B Advisor:
Wei Pan
A Simulation Based Power Analysis Approach to
Determine Sample Size and Sub-Sampling Strategy in
a Safety Intervention Study
Friday
June 29
10:00 AM
Mayo D325
Pei Li
Plan B Advisor:
Sudipto Banerjee
Mining for Edge Effects in Areally Referenced Spatial
Data: An Approach Using the Bayesian Information
Criteria
Tuesday
July 31
10:00 AM
Mayo A110
Haiying Lin
Plan B Advisor:
Chap Le
Use of Repeated Measures Analysis for Evaluation of
Tobacco Biomarker Changes in a Smokeless Tobacco
Brand Awitching Study
Monday
August 13
2:00PM
Mayo D325
Daniel Dvorkin
Plan B Advisor:
Wei Pan
Predicting Gene Coexpression by Integrating the Gene
Ontology with Microarray Data
Monday
September
10
1:00PM
Mayo A434
Jia Xu
Plan B Advisor:
Jim Neaton
A Comparison of the Importance of Different Lipid
Metrics for Predicting Coronary, Cardiovascular, and
Stroke Mortality in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention
Trial
Tuesday
September
24
3:00PM
Mayo D325
Xiaoxiao Kong
Plan B Advisor: Na
Li
A Simulation Study Comparing Expectation Substitution
and Full Maximum Likelihood Methods in Haplotypebased Genetic Association Analysis
Monday
October 1
10:00am
Zhi Huang
Plan B Advisor:
Tracy Bergemann
Missing Data Imputation in
Case-parent Triad Studies
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Mayo A110
Tuesday
October 2
3:15PM
Mayo A434
Fang Liu
Plan B Advisor:
Baolin Wu
Multi-Class Cancer Outlier Differential Gene
Expression Detection
Monday
October 15
2:30PM
Mayo A434
Benhuai Xie
Plan B Advisor:
Wei Pan
Prediction of Kidney Transplant Acute Rejection with
SNPs: A Comparison of Penalized Logistic Regression
and Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction
Monday
November
19
12:00PM
Mayo A434
Milan Seth
Plan B Advisor:
Saonli Basu
A Logistic Regression model for Quantitative Trait
Locus linkage Analysis
Tuesday
November
27
3:00PM
Mayo A434
Yanni Zhu
Plan B Advisor:
Wei Pan
Identifying the Association between SNPs and Acute
Rejection in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A
Comparison of Logistic Regression and Logic
Regression
Friday
November
30
2:30pm
Mayo A434
Qi Wang
Plan B Advisors:
John Connett and
Robert Leduc
Unbiased Estimation of Rates of Decline of CD4+ Cell
Counts in the presence of Censoring
Tuesday
December
18
10:00am
Mayo A434
Yue Cui
Ph.D. Advisor: Jim
Hodges
Smoothing Analysis of Variance for General Designs
and Partitioning Degrees of Freedom in Hierarchical
and Other Richly-parameterized Models.
Friday
December
21
10:00am
Mayo A301
Xinyu Zhou
Plan B Advisor:
Melanie Wall
Employee Behavior Study –
A Two-level Latent Class Approach
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Biostatistics Student Presentations 2006
Tuesday
January 24
2:30 PM
Mayo A434
Wenjun Ma
Plan B Advisor:
Jim Neaton and
Patricia Grambsch
Effect of Hydrochlorothiazide vs. Atenolol on Health
Outcomes among Different Times of Day
Wednesday
February 22
1:30pm
Mayo A301
Hongyan Qiao
Plan B Advisor:
John Connett
Modeling of Smoking Cessation Behavior
Monday
April 24
1:30pm
Mayo A434
Rui Zhang
Plan B Advisor:
Jim Neaton
Implementation of a minimization algorithm and
comparison with other allocation methods
Wednesday
April 26
1:00pm
Mayo A301
Gregg Lind
Plan B Advisor:
Lynn Eberly
PedSeer: A set of computer programs for visualizing,
modifying, and repairing pedigree data
Wednesday
June 28
4:00pm
Mayo A434
Zang Xiong
Plan B Advisor:
Jim Neaton
A Joint Analysis of Randomized and Non-Randomized
Data Aimed at Estimating the Effect of Efavirenz and
Nevirapine on Lipid Changes among AntiretroviralTherapy-Naive Patients Infected With HIV Who Are
Starting Treatment
Thursday
July 20
4:00pm
CCBR
Ballroom
Vaughn Berry
Plan B Advisor:
Lynn Eberly
Cause-Specific Mortality in Relation to Body Mass
Index among Men from the Multiple Risk Factor
Intervention Trial
Monday
July 24
10:00am
Mayo D327
Peng Wei
Plan B Advisor:
Wei Pan
Incorporating Gene Functions into Regression Analysis
of DNA-Protein Binding Data and Gene Expression
Data to Construct Transcriptional Networks
Tuesday
July 25
9:30am
CCBR
Ballroom
Qing Cao
Plan B Advisor:
Jim Hodges
Baseline Serum Antibodies and Measures of Infection
in the Obstetrics and Periodontal Therapy Trial
Monday
July 31
Adele Golden
Plan B Advisor:
Comparison of Nonlinear Mixed Effect Model Fitting in
SAS® and SPLUS®: NLMIXED vs. NLME Procedure
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3:00pm
Mayo A301
Lynn Eberly
Tuesday
August 1
9:30am
Mayo A110
Haijun Ma
PhDAdvisor: Brad
Carlin
Bayesian Hierarchical Boundary Analysis for Areal
Public Health Data
Wednesday
August 16
11:00am
CCBR
Ballroom
Shweta Sharma
Plan B Advisor:
John Connett
Comparison of Fisher Information and Bootstrap
Estimates of Variance for Logistic Regression
Parameters
Monday
August 21
10:00am
Mayo D199
Yang Xie
PhD Advisors: Wei
Pan and Arkady
Khodursky
Integrated Analysis of Genomic Data to Study Gene
Regulation
Tuesday
August 22
10:00am
Mayo D199
Guanghua Xiao
PhD Advisor: Wei
Pan
Integrating Biological Knowledge and Other Sources of
Data into Microarray Data Analysis
Friday
August 25
12:00pm
Mayo A301
Yan Zheng
PhD Advisor:
Cavan Reilly and
Wei Pan
Topics in the Low-level Analysis of Microarrays
Monday
August 28
1:00pm
CCBR
Ballroom
Freda Cooner
PhD Advisor:
Sudipto Banerjee
and Bradley P.
Carlin
Latent Activation Cure Rate Modeling for Time-ToEvent Data
Wednesday
August 30
9:30am
Mayo A301
Jay Pottala
Plan B Advisor:
John Connett
Diabetes Care Improvement Analysis
Friday
September
15
11:30am
Mayo A301
Yi He
PhD Advisor: Jim
Hodges
Bayesian Analysis of Real-Time RT-PCR Data with
Right Censoring
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Monday
October 2
9:30am
CCBR
Ballroom
Jia Guo
PhD Advisor:
Melanie Wall
Biostatistical Models with Latent Variables
Tuesday
November
21
2:30pm
Mayo A110
Colleen Curran
Plan B Advisor:
Patricia Grambsch
Comparing Methods for Calculating the Number of Bins
in a Histogram for the Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test
Biostatistics Student Presentations 2005
Friday
May 6
3:00 PM
Mayo D260
Scott Wehrenberg
Plan B Advisor: Jim
Hodges
Investigating the Accuracy of the Asymptotic
Approximation of Gray’s Competing Risk Analysis
Tuesday
May 31
1:30 PM
Mayo
A387/389
Yinghui Wang
Plan B Advisor:
Lynn Eberly
Performance of the Selection Model on the Simulated
Longitudinal Data with Informative and Random Dropout
Wednesday
June 8
10:00am
CCBR
Ballroom
Xiaoping Jin
PhD Advisor: Brad
Carlin
Multivariate Lattice Models for Areal Data with
Application to Multiple Disease Mapping
Wednesday
June 15
10:00am
Jackson 2137
Jarad Niemi
Plan B Advisor:
Brad Carlin
Identifying and Evaluating Contrarian Strategies for
NCAA Tournament Pools
Monday
June 27
9:00am
Mayo
A387/389
Bingbing Li
PhD Advisor:
Patricia Grambsch
Sample Size Calculation in Survival Trials Accounting
for Time-Dependent Dynamics of Noncompliance and
Risk
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Wednesday
June 29
10:00am
CCBR
Ballroom
Feng Tai
Plan B Advisor: Wei
Pan
Modelling Kappa by using Generalized Estimate
Equations with Applications
to RDC/TMD Study
Thursday
June 30
2:00pm
Mayo
A387/389
Qian An
Plan B Advisor:
Lynn Eberly
Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for the Variance
Components in a General Linear Mixed Model
Tuesday
July 19
9:30am
Mayo
A387/389
Fangyu Kan
Plan B Advisor:
James Neaton
Comparison of Sample Size Calculation Programs for
Complex Clinical Trials with Survival Endpoints
Monday
July 25
10:00am
Mayo
A387/389
Haolan Lu
PhD Advisor: Brad
Carlin and Jim
Hodges
Measuring the Complexity of Generalized Linear
Hierarchical Models and Bayesian Areal Wombling for
Boundary Analysis
Friday
July 29
10:00am
Mayo
A387/389
Brian Reich
PhD Advisor: Jim
Hodges
Effects of Residual Smoothing on the Posterior of the
Fixed Effects in Disease-mapping Models
Tuesday
August 2
10:00am
Mayo
A387/389
Wanling Xie
Plan B Advisor:
Lynn Eberly
Comparison of Two Diagnostic Procedures “Cook’s
Distance” and “Conditional Cook’s Distance” in Linear
Mixed Models
Thursday
August 11
9:30am
Mayo
A387/389
Yi-Chen Wu
Plan B Advisor: Na
Li
Exploring Positional Candidate Genes: Linkage
Conditional on SNP Genotypes
Friday
August 12
2:00pm
Mayo
Luping Zhao
Plan B Advisor:
John Connett
A SAS/MACRO Program That Provides Smoothed
Estimates of Hazard Curves in Survival Analysis
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A387/389
Friday
August 19
9:00am
CCBR
Ballroom
Qi Li
Plan B Advisor:
James Neaton
The Evaluation of Effect of Clinical Research Site Size
on Performance in Two Randomized Multicenter
Clinical Trials
Thursday
September 1
9:30am
Mayo
A387/389
Helen Haiyun Fan
Plan B Advisor:
Sudipto Banerjee
A Simulation-Based Framework for Bayesian Sample
Size Calculations
Tuesday
September 6
4:00pm
CCBR
Ballroom
Shengde Liang
Plan B Advisor:
Sudipto Banerjee
Multi-Resolution Spatial Modelling with Application to
Replicated Weed Experiments
Monday
September
12
3:00pm
Mayo A434
Allyson Abrams
Plan B Advisor:
Michael Oakes
The SAS/SaTScan Macro Accessory for Cartography
(SMAC) Package
Tuesday
October 4
1:30pm
Mayo A434
Meijuan Li
Plan B Advisor:
Cavan Reilly
Analysis of mRNA stability in Human T Lymphocytes
Monday
October 24
1:30pm
A434 Mayo
Aixaing Jiang
Plan B Advisor: Wei
Pan
Are BOEC Cells More Like Large Vessel or
Microvascular Endothelial Cells?
Wednesday
October 26
9:00am
CCBR
Ballroom
Yun Bai
Plan B Advisor:
Robert Leduc
Modeling the CD4+ Decline of Treatment-Naive
Patients as a Function of Baseline CD4+ Cell Count
and Other Possible Predictors.
Monday
October 31st
9:30am
Mayo A434
Maria Carola Alfaro
Plan B Advisor:
Patricia Grambsch
Testing Global Hypotheses of Equal Mean
Differences, Between Two groups, of Correlated
Endpoints Using O’Brien GLS, OLS and Tang Center
Direction Tests
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Tuesday
November
1st
9:30am
Mayo A434
Lan Pan
Plan B Advisor: Will
Thomas
Correlation Between Repeated Measurements of
Glomerular Filtration Rate in Participants in the
Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT)
Friday
November
4th
2:30pm
CCBR
Ballroom
Xuan Liu
PhD Advisor:
Melanie Wall
Latent Variable Models for Multivariate Spatial Data
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