BIOSTATISTICS SEMINAR ARCHIVE
More info at www.sph.umn.edu/biostatistics
Biostatistics Seminars 2012-13
When & Where
Speaker
Topic
July 24
Dani Gamerman
3 p.m.
Professor of Statistics
Mayo D199
Universidade Federal do Rio de
Janeiro
Point Pattern Analysis of
Cerebrovascular Deaths in Rio de
Janeiro with Spatially Varying
Covariate Effects
May 1
Damla Senturk
3:30 p.m.
Department of Biostatistics,
Moos 2-690
University of California, Los
Angeles
April 24
Haibo Zhou
3:30 p.m.
Department of Biostatistics.
Moos 2-690
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
April 17
David Dunson
3:30 p.m.
Department of Statistical
Science,
Moos 2-690
Cardiovascular Event Risk
Dynamics over Time in Older
Patients on Dialysis: A Generalized
Multiple-Index Varying Coefficient
Model Approach
Statistical Inference for Data from
an Outcome Dependent Sampling
Scheme with a Continuous
Outcome
Bayesian Learning of Conditional
Distributions
Duke University
March 27
Mingyao Li
3:30 p.m.
Department of Biostatistics
Estimating Isoform-Specific Gene
Expression in RNA-Seq
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
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Moos 2-690
University of Pennsylvania
March 4
Chiung-Yu Huang
3:30 p.m.
National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases
Moos 5-125
March 1
Michael Levine
10 a.m.
Purdue University
Recurrent Event Data Analysis
Using Time-Varying Covariates with
Application to the Impact of
Streptococcus on Pharyngitis in
Indian School Children
Maximum Smoothed Likelihood for
Multivariate Mixtures
Mayo 3-125
Feb. 27
Shawn Treier
3:30 p.m.
Department of Politics,
Moos 2-690
University of Virginia
Jan. 30
Hui Jiang
3:30 p.m.
Department of Biostatistics,
Moos 2-690
University of Michigan
Nov. 28
Abdus Wahed
3:30 p.m.
Department of Biostatistics,
Moos 2-620
University of Pittsburgh
Nov. 7
Murali Haran
3:30 p.m.
Department of Statistics,
Mayo 3-125
Pennsylvania State University
Oct. 17
Yunwen Yang
3:30 p.m.
Department of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics,
Estimating the Dimensionality of
Latent Structural Models
Computationally Efficient Methods
for Statistical Modeling of
Alternative Splicing in RNA-Seq
Covariate-Adjusted Comparison of
Dynamic Treatment Regimes in
Sequentially Randomized Clinical
Trials
Inference with Implicit Likelihoods
and High-dimensional Data
Bayesian Empirical Likelihood for
Quantile Regression
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
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Mayo 3-125
Drexel University
Sept. 26
Natesh Pillai
3:30 p.m.
Department of Statistics,
Moos 2-620
Harvard University
Efficiency of Bayesian Procedures
and the Frequentist-Bayes
Connection in Some High
Dimensional Problems
Sept. 19
Jim Hodges
Random Effects Old and New
3:30 p.m.
Division of Biostatistics,
Mayo D199
University of Minnesota
Sept. 5
Chiung-Yu Huang
3:30 p.m.
Biostatistics Research Branch,
Mayo 3-125
National Institute of Allergy &
Infectious Diseases,
Composite Partial Likelihood
Estimation under Length-Biased
Sampling, With Application to a
Prevalent Cohort Study of
Dementia
National Institutes of Health
Biostatistics Seminars 2011-12
When & where
Speaker
Topic
Sept. 7
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-620
Brian Hobbs
M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center,
University of Texas
Commensurate Priors for Incorporating
Historical Information in Clinical Trials
using General and Generalized Linear
Models
Sept. 21
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-620
Takayuki Abe
Keio University School of
Medicine
Introduction of Collaborative Work with
Physicians at Keio University School of
Medicine: Analysis of Clinical
Radiological Free-response ROC
(FROC)Data
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
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Sept. 28
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-620
Kieron Dey
Consulting Statistician
Orthogonal Designs in Healthcare
Including Care and Disease Management
Oct. 19
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-620
Yu Zhang
Department of Statistics,
Penn State
A New Bayesian Variable Selection
Method for Disease Association Mapping
Oct. 28
10 a.m.
Moos 1-451
Xiao Li Meng
Department of Statistics,
Harvard University
Gene-Environment Interaction,
Automated Bias-Variance Trade-off, and
Nano-Project Ph.D. Qualifying Exams
Nov. 2
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-620
Ben French
Department of Biostatistics
and Epidemiology,
University of Pennsylvania
Development and Evaluation of
Multimarker Panels for Clinical Prognosis
Nov. 30
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-620
Clarice Weinberg
National Institute of
Environmental Health
Sciences
Specimen Pooling for Biomarkers:
Making the Most of Precious Bodily
Fluids
Jan. 9, 3:30 p.m. ,
Mayo 3-125
Guosheng Yin,
Department of Statistics
and Actuarial Science,
The University of Hong
Kong
Bayesian Adaptive Designs for EarlyPhase Clinical Trials
Friday, Jan. 13, 10
a.m., Mayo 3-125
Taki Shinohara,
Department of
Biostatistics, Johns
Hopkins
University
Estimating Parsimonious Models of
Longitudinal Causal Effects using
Regressions on Propensity Scores
Monday, Jan. 30,
3:30 p.m., Mayo 3100
David Vock, Department of
Statistics, North Carolina
State
University
Assessing the Effect of Organ
Transplantation on the Distribution of
Residual Lifetime
Wednesday, Feb.
1, 3:30 p.m., Moos
Luis Leon Novelo,
Department of Statistics,
Objective Bayes Model Selection in
Probit Models
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
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2-530
University of Florida
Wednesday, Feb.
8, 3:30 p.m., Moos
2-530
Xiaojing Wang,
Department of Statistical
Science, Duke University
Bayesian Analysis of Dynamic Item
Response Models
Friday, Feb. 10,
10 a.m. Mayo 3100
Hongtu Zhu, Department
of Biostatistics, University
of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Some Statistical Methods for Functional
Data
Monday, Feb. 13,
3:30 p.m. Mayo 3100
Joe Koopmeiners, Division
of Biostatistics, University
of
Minnesota
Bayesian Adaptive Phase I/II Oncology
Trials with Delayed Outcomes
Friday, Feb. 17.
10 a.m., Mayo 3100
Yan Li, Department of
Mathematics, University of
Texas at
Arlington
Weighting Method and PseudoSemiparametric Inference for PopulationBased Case-Control Studies with
Complex Sampling
Wednesday,
March 28, 3:30
p.m., Moos 2-530
Joan Garfield,
Robert delMas, and
Andrew Zieffler
Department of Educational
Psychology, University of
Minnesota
A New Flavor of the Introductory
Statistics Course: Teaching Students to
Cook
Wednesday, April
18, 3:30 p.m.,
Moos 2-530
Shuang Wang Department
of Biostatistics,
Mailman School of Public
Health, Columbia
University
Method to Detect Differentially
Methylated Loci with Case-Control
Designs Using Illumina Arrays
Friday, April 27,
10 a.m., 364
WBOB
Steve Manson,
Department of Geography,
University of Minnesota
White Shoes and Happy Cows
Wednesday, May
2, 3:30 p.m., Moos
2-530
Jeff Leek, Department of
Biostatistics, Johns
Hopkins University
Estimating the Rate of False Positives in
the Medical Literature
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
Biostatistics Seminars 2010-11
September 22
3:30 p.m.
Mayo D-199
Alyson Wilson
Department of Statistics
Iowa State University
Bayesian Methods for Estimating the
Reliability of Complex System using
Heterogeneous Multilevel Data
September 29
3:30 p.m.
Mayo D-199
Jim Hodges
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
Fun with The Bumps, a simple new
device for measuring tactile sensation
loss in the fingers
October 6
3:30 p.m.
Mayo D-199
Paul Gustafson
Department of Statistics
University of British Columbia
Bayesian Inference in Partially Identified
Models
October 20
3:30 p.m.
Mayo D-199
Jeff Gill
Center for Applied Statistics
Washington University
Using Statistical Modeling to Fight
Terrorism
November 3
3:30 p.m.
Mayo D-199
Bala Rajaratnam
Department of Statistics
Stanford University
Novel Methodologies for Gene Network
Interaction Analysis and network
modeling with applications to Cancer
research and Cardiovascular Disease
November 17
3:30 p.m.
Mayo D-199
Galin Jones
School of Statistics
University of Minnesota
Componentwise Markov chain Monte
Carlo
December 1
3:30 p.m.
Mayo D-199
Michael Stein
Department of Statistics
The University of Chicago
When does the screening effect hold?
January 19
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-620
John Hughes
Department of Statistics
The Pennsylvania State
University
Dimension Reduction and Confounding
in Spatial Generalized Linear Models
January 21
Hanwen Huang
High Dimensional Statistical Learning
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
10:00 a.m.
WeaverDensford Hall 2110/2-140
Department of Statistics and
Operations Research
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Wednesday,
January 26
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-620
Yen-Yi Ho
McKusick-Nathans Institute of
Genetic Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Genetic Interactions and Association
Networks: Statistical Models and
Algorithms
CCBR Seminar
Friday, January
28
2:30-3:30 p.m.
CCBR Ballroom
Erik Iverson, MS
Research Fellow in
Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
Improving Statistical Workflow: An
Introduction to Literate Programming
and Sweave
January 31
3:30 p.m.
Mayo A110
Nikolay Bliznyuk
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
Nonlinear Latent Process Models for
Integrating Spatio-Temporal Exposure
Data from Multiple Sources
Friday, Feb. 4
10:00 a.m.
WeaverDensford Hall 2110/2-140
Thomas Hoffmann
Institute for Human Genetics
& Dept of Epidemiology &
Biostatistics
University of California, San
Francisco
Polygenic Modeling of Rare and
Common Genetic Associations
Wednesday,
Feb. 9
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-620
Jian Guo
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor
Joint Estimation of Multiple Graphical
Models
Friday, Feb. 11
2:00 p.m.
Jackson 2-137
Stuart A. Gansky, DrPH
Professor
University of California, San
Francisco
Underlying Properties of Health
Disparity Indices – Do You Know What
Your Index is Measuring?
Monday, Feb.
14
3:30 p.m.
Marco Ferreira
Department of Statistics
University of Missouri,
Dynamic Multiscale Spatio-Temporal
Models for Gaussian Areal Data
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
2-470 PWB
Columbia
Wednesday,
Feb. 16
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-620
Roee Gutman
Department of Statistics
Harvard University
An Outcome-Free Procedure for Interval
Estimation of Causal Effect
Thursday, Feb.
17
8:30-9:30 a.m.
2-101 Nils
Hasselmo Hall
Fang Liu, Ph.D.
Senior Biometrician/Manager
Early Clinical Development
Statistics
Merck Research Labs
Estimation Bias in Complete-Case
Analysis in Crossover Studies with
Missing Data
February 18
10:30 a.m.
WeaverDensford Hall 2110/2-140
Dipankar Bandyopadhyay
Division of Biostatistics and
Epidemiology
Department of Medicine
Medical University of South
Carolina
A Multivariate Spatial Factor Model for
Clustered Data with Informatively
Present Mixed Responses
Wednesday,
Feb. 23
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-620
Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Departments of Epidemiology
and Biostatistics
Harvard University
General Theory for Estimation of GXE
Statistical Interaction: Robustness and
Efficiency Considerations
Friday, Feb. 25
10 a.m.
Mayo 3-100
Steffanie Halberstadt
Department of Biostatistics
and Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania
Item Reduction and Validation Using a
Joint Latent Variable Model: An
Investigation of the Penn Premenstrual
Syndrome Daily Symptom Report
Monday, Feb.
28
3:30 p.m.
2-470 PWB
Hernando Ombao
Biostatistics Section
Brown University
Modeling Dependence in a Network of
Brain Signals
Wednesday,
March 2
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-620
Michael Oakes
Associate Professor
Epidemiology
University of Minnesota
Protecting Your Data and Other Things
Biostatisticians Need to Know About the
IRB
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
Wednesday,
March 30
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-620
Saonli Basu
Assistant Professor
Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
A Dimension Reduction Approach for
Modeling Multi-Locus Interaction in
Case-Control Studies
Wednesday,
April 6
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-620
Hao Zhang
Department of Statistics
Purdue University
Theory and Practice for Massive Spatial
Data
Friday, April 22
10 a.m.
364 WBOB
Stephen R. Cole
Department of Epidemiology
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Marginal structural models for casecohort study designs: Estimating the
effect of antiretroviral therapy initiation
on incident AIDS or death
Wednesday,
May 4
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-620
Amy Herring
Department of Biostatistics
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Bayesian Borrowing of Information
across High-dimensional Exposures and
Outcomes
Biostatistics Seminars 2009-10
September 10
Mayo 3-100
Joel Dubin
Department of Statistics &
Actuarial Science
Department of Health
Studies & Gerontology
University of Waterloo
Longitudinal Modeling When the Response
and Time-Dependent Covariate(s) are
Measured at Distinct Time Points
September 30
WeaverDensford Hall
2-120
Yongtao Guan
Division of Biostatistics
Yale University
Estimating Individual-Level Risk in Spatial
Epidemiology Using Spatially Aggregated
Information on Population at Risk
October 7
WeaverDensford Hall
2-120
Jeremy Taylor
Department of Biostatistics
University of Michigan
Using a Joint Longitudinal-Survival Model in
Prostate Cancer Studies
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
October 21
WeaverDensford Hall
2-120
Bryan Dowd
Division of Health Policy &
Management
University of Minnesota
Separated at Birth: Statisticians, Social
Scientists and Causality in Health Services
Research
November 4
WeaverDensford Hall
2-120
Chiung-Yu Huang
Biostat. Research Branch
National Institute of Allergy
& Infectious Diseases
National Institues of Health
Estimation and Model-Checking Methods for
Recurrent Gap Time Data
December 2
WeaverDensford Hall
2-120
Chap Le
Distinguished Teaching
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
A Sequence of Experiments for Translational
Therapeutic Investigations
February 3
Moos 2-530
Montserrat Fuentes
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State
University
Spatial Bayesian Quantile Regression:
Application to Study the Impact of Climate
Change on Tropospheric Ozone
February 5
Moos 2-530
Haitao Chu
Dept of Biostatistics &
Lineberger
Comprehensive Cancer
Center
University of North
Carolina
Estimation and Inference for Case-control
Studies with Multiple Non-gold Standard
Exposure Assessments: with an
Occupational Health Application
February 8
Moos 2-530
Arnab Maity
Department of Biostatisics
Harvard University
Statistical Methods for Testing Genetic
Effects in the Presence of Possible Genegene and Gene-environment Interactions
February 10
Moos 2-530
Veronica Berrocal
Statistical and Applied
Mathematical Sciences
Institute
Downscaling Outputs from Numerical Models
February 15
Yeonseung Chung
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public
Nonparametric Bayes Conditional Distribution
Modeling with Variable Selection
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
Health
February 17
Min Qian
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan
Statistical Methodology for Dynamic
Treatment Regimes
February 19
Ying Yuan
The University of Texas
M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center
Bayesian Model Averaging Continual
Reassessment Method in Phase I Clinical
Trials
February 24
Jing Zhang
Department of Statistics
Harvard University
Bayesian Inference of Interactions in
Biological Problems
March 3
Moos 2-530
Mu Zhu
Department of Statistics
and Actuarial Science
University of Waterloo
Deep Kernel Machines and Stochastic
Stepwise Ensembles
April 7
Moos 2-530
Fengzhu Sun
Department of Biological
Sciences
University of Southern
California
Power of Pattern Counting in Molecular
Sequence Analysis
April 21
Moos 2-530
Crystal Linkletter
Department of Community
Health
Brown University
Latent Socio-Spatial Process Model for
Social Networks
April 30
Alan Gelfand
Department of Statistical
Science
Duke University
Process Modeling for
Space-time Extremes
Biostatistics Seminars 2008-09
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
September
12
Moos 2620
Saurabh Ghosh
Human Genetics Unit
Indian Statistical Institute
Model-Free Linkage and Association Mapping Of
Complex Traits Using Quantitative
Endophenotypes
September
24
Moos 5125
Haitao Chu
Lineberger
Comprehensive Cancer
Center
University of North
Carolina
Random Effects Models in a Meta-Analysis of the
Accuracy of Two Diagnostic Tests without a Gold
Standard
October
1
Moos 2620
Robert Derozio
Florida Integrated
Science Center
USGS & Dept. of
Statistics
University of Florida
Estimation of Manatee Abundance from Aerial
Surveys Using Dual Observers and Removal
Sampling
October
15
Moos 5125
Ruzong Fan
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
Extended Homozygosity Score Tests to Detect
Positive Selection in Genome-wide Scans
November
5
Moos 5125
Logan Spector, Division
of Epidemiology
&
Tracy Bergemann,
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
Case-parent Triad Analyses of Genes Related to
Bone Growth in Osteosarcoma
November
19
Moos 5125
Sumithra Mandrekar
Division of Biomedical
Statistics and Informatics
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Continuous Measurements versus Categorization
to Assess Anti-Tumor Activity in Cancer Clinical
Trials: Is One Really Better Than the Other?
December
3
Moos 5125
Wei Pan
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
Some Old and New Tests of Disease Association
with Multiple SNPs in Linkage Disequilibrium
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
January
15
Moos 2520
Scott Emerson
Department of
Biostatistics
University of Washington
On the Use of Stochastic Curtailment in Sequential
Clinical Trials
February
11
Mayo 1250
Shuying Sun
Mathematical
Biosciences Institute
Ohio State University
A Quantile Approach to Analyzing Differential
Methylation Hybridization Microarrays
February
18
Mayo 1250
Peng Wei
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
Network-based Mixture Models for Genomic
Discovery
February
20
Mayo D327
Jose-Miguel Yamal
Department of
Biostatistics
University of Texas M.D.
Anderson Cancer Center
Multilevel Classification: Classifying Data Based
on Variable Number of Replicated Measures with
Application in Cervical Neoplasia Screening
February
25
Mayo 1250
Joe Koopmeiners
Department of
Biostatistics
University of Washington
Conditional Estimation after a Phase II Group
Sequential Diagnostic Biomarker Study
March
4
Mayo 1250
Eunhee Kim
Department of
Biostatistics
University of North
Carolina
Semi-parametric Transformation Models for
Multiple Biomarkers in ROC Analysis
March
25
Moos 1450
Brad Carlin
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
Bayesian Adaptive Methods for
Clinical Trial Design and Analysis
or
What I Did on My Fall Semester Leave
April
6
Moos 1450
Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou
Department of
Biostatistics
University of Washington
Some New Models for Predicting Health Care
Costs of Individual Patients
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
April
8
Moos 1450
Dalene Stangl
Department of Statistical
Science
Duke University
Linking Statistical Analysis and Decision Analysis
in Health-Related Research
April
14
Moos 1450
Weihua Guan
Department of
Biostatistics
University of Michigan
Genetic Similarity Matching for Genome-wide
Association Studies
April
15
Mayo 1250
Sean Nugent
Minneapolis VA Medical
Center
Participation in PTSD Treatment
(Who Starts, Stays, or Drops Out)
How to Identify a Population of Patients Seeking
Treatment in Real Time: Only at the VA?
April
20
Moos 1450
Joshua Sampson
Department of
Biostatistics
Yale University
Selecting SNPs to Correctly Predict Ethnicity
April
21
Moos 1450
Zuoheng Anita Wang
Department of Statistics
The University of
Chicago
Testing Untyped SNPs in Case-Control
Association Studies with Related Individuals
April
22
Moos 1450
Karla Ballman
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
Some Trials Encountered in Clinical Trials
April
28
Moos 1450
Erik Bloomquist
Biostatistics
University of California,
Los Angeles
Hierarchical Models in Molecular Evolution
April
30
Mayo 3125
Julian Wolfson
Department of
Biostatistics
Univeristy of Washington
Statistical Identifiability and the
Surrogate Endpoint Problem,
with Application to Vaccine Trials
Biostatistics Seminars 2007-08
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
September
19
Moos 1450G
Tom Cook
Division of Biostatistics
University of Wisconsin
Analysis of Time-to-event Data with Incomplete
Event Adjudication
September
26
Moos 1450G
Deukwoo Kwon
Postdoctoral Visiting
Fellow
National Cancer Institute
Identifying Protein Makers from Mass
Spectrometry Data with Ordinal Outcome
October
1
Moos 2-520
Yulan Liang
Divsion of Biostatistics
University at Buffalo,
SUNY
Statistical Methods for Human Genomic
Research
October
3
Moos 1450G
Dan Nettleton
Division of Statistics
Iowa State University
Exploring the Information in p-Values for the
Analysis and Planning of Multiple-Test
Experiments
October
4
115 Ford
Hall
Brian Caffo
Division of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University
Statistical Methods for Indirect Estimation of
Physiological Parameters: Case Studies in Viral
Kinetics
October
15
MoosT 2520
Jimmy Efird
John A. Burns School of
Medicine
A Method to Model Season of Birth as a
Surrogate Environmental Risk Factor for Disease
October
17
Moos 1450G
Song Yang
National Cancer Institute
Modelling and inference on time-varying hazard
ratios for survival data
October
31
Moos 1450G
Surajit Ray
Math & Statistics
Boston University
Modal Inference and Its Application to HighDimensional Clustering
November
Rafael Irizarri
Applications of Affymetrix SNP Chips
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
7
Moos 1450G
Division of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University
November
28
Moos 1450G
Xianghua Luo
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
Analysis of Recurrent Event Data Under the
Case-crossover Design With Applications to
Elderly Falls
December
5
Moos 1450G
Wei Pan
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
Statistical Genomics and Spatial Statistics:
Incorporating Biological Knowledge of Genes into
Analysis of Genomic Data
January
17
Moos 2-580
Xuefeng Liu
Assistant Professor
Wayne State University
Joint Models for Bivariate Longitudinal Processes
January
30
Moos 5-125
Richard Maclehose
Biostatistics
National Institute of
Environmental Health
Sciences
Kernel Mixtures of Gaussian Processes and their
Application to Epidemiology
February
1
Moos 2-520
Kyle Rudser
Department of
Biostatistics
University of Washington
Separating Borrowing Information and Forming
Contrasts: Nonparametric Inference for Arbitrary
Functionals of Survival
February
4
Mayo D199
Yun Li
Department of
Biostatistics
University of Michigan
Assessing Surrogacy in Clinical Trials Using
Counterfactual Models
February
6
Moos 5-125
Matthew Stephens
Department of Human
Genetics and Statistics
University of Chicago
Bayesian Imputation-based Association Mapping
February
11
Zhi Wei
Bioinformatics
Statistical Methods for Network-Based Analysis of
Genomic Data
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
Mayo D199
University of
Pennsylvania
February
15
Moos 2-520
Min Zhang
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State
University
Improving Efficiency of Inferences in Randomized
Clinical Trials Using Auxiliary Covariates
February
20
Moos 5-125
Thomas Braun
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Parametric Approaches for Optimizing Treatment
Schedules in Adaptive Early-Phase Clinical Trials
February
22
Moos 2-520
Hongwei Zhao
Department of
Biostatistics and
Computational Biology
University of Rochester
On the Equivalence of Some Medical Cost
Estimators with Censored Data
March
5
Moos 5-125
Jim Hodges
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
A Practical Method for Polishing Your Writing
OR
Liposuction! Do it Yourself at Home!
(The 3rd Biannual Liposuction Seminar)
March
26
Moos 5-125
Jian-Min Yuan
Division of Epidemiology
and Community Health
University of Minnesota
Bladder Cancer – A Model Disease for
Investigating Genetic and Environmental Effect
March
31
Mayo D199
Dongmei Liu
Department of
Epidemiology and
Population Health
London School of
Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine
A Variable Selection Approach to Gene Set
Enrichment Analysis
April
2
Moos 5-125
Zhezhen Jin
Division of Biostatistics
Columbia University
Methods for Item Reduction in a Scale for
Screening
April
Keaven Anderson
On Adaptive Extensions of Group Sequential
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
4
Mayo D325
Merck
Trials for Clinical Investigations
April
15
Moos 2-580
Alan Zinsmeister
Biostatistics
College of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Breath Test Models for Gastric Emptying
April
23
Moos 5-125
Victor DeGruttola
Department of
Biostatistics
Harvard University
Resampling-based Multiple Testing Methods with
Covariate Adjustment: Application to Investigation
of Antiretroviral Drug Susceptibility
April
30
Moos 5-125
Chap Le
Division of Biosatistics
University of Minnesota
Interval Estimation of Ratios of Parameters
May
7
Moos 5-125
Kang James & Barry
James
Department of
Mathematics and
Statistics
University of MinnesotaDuluth
Tests for Local Temporal Correlation of Two NonHomogeneous Poisson Processes
August
14
Mayo A434
Alejandro Jara
Universidad de
Concepcion
On the Analysis of Bayesian Semiparametric IRTtype Models
Biostatistics Seminars 2006-07
September
20
Moos 2-690
Jim Hodges
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
A Spatially-Adaptive Dynamic Conditionally
Autoregressive Model for Longitudinal
Periodontal Data
September
27
Moos 2-690
Chap Le
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
A Solution for the Most Basic Optimization
Problem Associated with an ROC Curve
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
October
11
Moos 2-690
Tim Hanson
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
Some Bayesian Semiparametric Approaches to
Modeling Survival/Reliability with a Noisy
Longitudinal Marker
October
18
Moos 2-690
Lan Wang
Department of Statistics
University of Minnesota
Consistent Model Selection and Data-driven
Smooth Tests for Longitudinal Data in the
Estimating Equations Approach
October
25
Moos 2-690
Moulinath Banerjee
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan
Interval Censored Data: Some Recent
Developments
November
8
Moos 2-690
Melanie Wall
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
Multiple Indicator and Multivariate Discrete State
Hidden Markov Models
November
15
Moos 2-690
Peter Mueller
Biostatistics
MD Anderson Cancer
Center
FDR, ODP and Bayesian Decision Rules
January
31
Moos I450G
Philip Dawid
University College,
London
Interpreting DNA profile evidence in complex
disputed paternity cases: Bayesian networks to
the rescue
February
14
Moos 2-690
Daniel P. Normolle,
Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Michigan
The Colorectal Cancer Serum Proteomics
Bakeoff
February
21
Moos 2-690
Holly Janes, Ph.D.
John Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health
Partitioning Evidence of Statistical Association: A
Case Study of Air Pollution and Mortality
February
28
Moos 2-690
Jeff Sloan, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Clinical Trials and Clinical Significance of Quality
of Life Endpoints in Oncology
March
7
Deepak Agarwall
Senior Research
Bayesian Spatial Scan Statistic Adjusted for Over
Dispersion and Spatial Correlation
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
Moos 2-690
Scientist
Yahoo! Research
March
19
Moos 1-450
J. Michael Oakes, PhD
Division of Epidemiology
& Community Health
Minnesota Population
Center
Beyond the RCT: Some Overlooked Challenges
to Statistical Inference in Human Health
Research
March
28
Moos 2-690
Erin Conlon
Department of Math/Stat.
University of
Massachusetts
Statistical Methods for Integrating Multiple
Sources of Genomic Data
April
4
Moos 2-690
Bhramar Mukherjee
Department of
Biostatistics
University of Michigan
Bayesian Analysis of Studies of GeneEnvironmrnt Interaction
April
18
Moos 2-690
Heping Zhang
Department of
Epidemiology and Public
Health
Yale University School of
Medicine
Genetic Studies for Ordinal Traits
April
25
NHH 2-101
Tom Louis
Department of
Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University
Bayesian Analysis of the 1918 Influenza
Pandemic in Baltimore, MD and Newark, NJ
May
2
Moos 2-690
David Nelson
Center for Chronic
Disease Outcomes
Research
Minneapolis VA Medical
Center
Bias Reduction versus Sufficient Dimension
Reduction
May
16
CCBR
Jim Hodges
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
Treatment of Periodontal Disease and the Risk of
Preterm Birth: The Obstetrics and Periodontal
Therapy (OPT) Trial
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
Ballroom
Biostatistics Seminars 2005-06
September
21
Moos 2690
Jim Hodges
Division of Biostatistics
School of Dentistry
University of Minnesota
Smoothed Analysis of Variance
October
26
Moos 2690
Chap Le
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
T-Test, Hotelling’s T22 Test, Odds Ratio, and the
Logistics Regression Model
November
2
Moos 2690
Daniel Sargent
Director, Cancer Center
Statistics, Mayo Clinic
Cancer Center
Consultant, Mayo Clinic
Division of Biostatistics
Endpoints for Colon Adjuvant Clinical Trials:
Recommendations Based on Individual Patient
Data from 20898 Patients and 18 Randomized
Trials
November
8
Moos 2620
Lance Waller
Department of
Biostatistics
Emory University
A Spatial Analysis of Epidermal Nerve Fibers
November
16
Moos 2530
Lue P Zhao
Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center
University of Washington
– Seattle
An Empirical Multipoint Method for Identifying
Haplotype Blocks/Tagging SNPs with Application
to HapMap Data
December
7
Moos 2690
Hui Zou
Department of Statistics
University of Minnesota
The Margin Vector and Multi-class Margin-based
Classifiers
January
25
Peter Hoff
Department of Statistics
Dimension selection for SVD models, with
applications to relational data
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
PWB 2-470
and Biostatistics
University of Washington
February
3
Moos 2690
Richard Evans
College of Veterinary
Medicine
Iowa State University
Combining expert information for the analysis of
animal health screening tests
February
8
Moos 2620
Chin-shang Li
Biostatistics
St. Jude’s Children’s
Research Hospital
A Local Linear Kernel-based Test for Nonlinear
Regression Models
February
10
Moos 2690
Jennifer Schumi
Biostatistics
Harvard University
Relating genotype to phenotype: Resamplingbased multiple hypothesis
testing using order statistics.
February
15
PWB 2-470
Shubhankar Ray
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
Bayesian Clustering for Identifying Alternative
Splice Variants
February
17
Moos 2690
Xianghua Luo
Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of
Public Health
Recurrent Event Models in the Presence of a
Terminal Event: Comparison, Inference and Data
Analysis
February
22
Moos 2620
Zhang-sheng Yu
Biostatistics
University of Michigan
Nonparametric Regression for Correlated Failure
Time Data
February
24
Moos 2690
Yang Xie
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
A Bayesian approach to joint modeling of DNAprotein binding data, gene expression data and
DNA sequence data
February
28
Moos 2-
Jim Hodges
Division of Biostatistics
and School of Dentistry
An Approach to Diagnostics for Multiple Error-term
Linear Models
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit
620
University of Minnesota
March
1
Moos 2620
Hongzhe Li
Biostatistics
University of
Pennsylvania
Statistical Modeling of Pathways and Networks for
Genomic Applications
March
16
Moos 2620
Anindita Banerjee
Statistics
North Carolina State
University
Optimal Adaptive Designs in Phase-II Trials
Lan Wang
Department of Statistics
University of Minnesota
Postponed until Fall ’06
April
5
Moos 2620
Jim Hodges
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
A Practical Method for Polishing Your Writing
OR
Liposuction! Do it yourself at home!
April
19
Moos 2690
Bradley P. Carlin
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
Using R and BRugs in Bayesian Clinical Trial
Design and Analysis
April
26
Moos 2620
Ivan S. F. Chan, Ph.D.
Clinical Biostatistics
Merck Research
Laboratories
Statistical Challenges of Multiple Endpoints in
Clinical Trials
May
3
Moos 2620
Jeffrey Morris
University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer
Center
Bayesian Wavelet-Based Functional Mixed
Models
https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1TJUfHCG1EUeuNoYkrJkvxKOhIohMDAiYKa9
fFAGBQRc/edit