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    2007-2008 Seminar Series Schedule

    Invited Speakers List (Talks generally begin at 3:30 PM in room M2050 unless otherwise noted.)
Date Speaker Topic (Follow link for announcement and abstract PDF)
9/18/2007 Mei-Ling Ting Lee, PhD First-hitting-time Based Threshold Regression Models:
Implementation and Relation to Cox Regression
9/25/2007 Julie A. Panepinto, MD, MSPH, FAAP Health-related Quality of Life in Sickle Cell Disease
10/23/2007 Christine Kovach, PhD Effects of the Serial Trial Intervention on Discomfort and Behavior of Nursing Home Residents with Dementia
11/13/2007 Javier Nieto, MD, PhD The Survey of the Health of Wisconsin:
A new model for applied population health research
11/27/2007 Aniko Szabo, PhD Modeling Prostate Cancer Incidence
12/18/2007 Marcelo Pasquini, MD, MS Predicting the Development of Acute Graft versus Host Disease:
Estimating Boundaries for BMT Clinical Trials Stopping Rules
1/22/2008 Liliana E. Pezzin, PhD A Dynamic Model of Policy and Health Effects on Living Arrangement Transitions of Elderly Persons
1/29/2008 John Yap
University of Florida
Nonparametric Modeling of Large Longitudinal Covariance Structure in Functional Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci
2/5/2008 Xueya Cai
State University of New York at Buffalo
A Generalized Linear Model Based Approach for Estimating and Testing Equality of Conditional Correlations
2/26/2008 Gisela Tunes da Silva, PhD ESTIMATION OF THE MEAN QUALITY-ADJUSTED SURVIVAL USING A MULTISTATE MODEL FOR THE SOJOURN TIMES
3/4/2008 Xiaolin Fan BAYESIAN SEMIPARAMETRIC REGRESSION ON CUMULATIVE INCIDENCE FUNCTION UNDER COMPETING RISKS SETTING
3/11/2008 Nicholas Pajewski BAYESIAN SEMIPARAMETRIC MODELS FOR GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES OF UNRELATED INDIVIDUALS IN THE PRESENCE OF POPULATION STRUCTURE
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
3:30–4:30 PM
Alan Huebner, PhD
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Modeling Correlated Ordinal Data: Marginal and Conditional Approaches
Tuesday, April 3, 2008
3:30–4:30 PM
Jeanette Eckel-Passow, PhD
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Statistical Models for Interpreting Protein Mass-Spectrometry Data
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
3:30–4:30 PM
Kwang Woo Ahn
The University of Iowa, Iowa City
Bayesian Inference with Incomplete Multinomial Data - Assessing the Spatio-Temporal Variation in Pathogen-Variant Diversity
Thursday, May 22, 2008
3:30-4:30 PM
Frank Harrell Jr, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics
School of Medicine
Vanderbilt University
Statistical Principles to Live By
Friday,
May 23, 2008
12-1 PM
Frank Harrell Jr, PhD Information Allergy

Talks featuring invited speakers generally begin at 3:30 PM in room M2050 unless otherwise announced. Please join us before the seminar for coffee, cookies, and conversation. See announcement for location, but it is usually in room H2050.

Biostatistics graduate students will be expected to attend all seminars and will be expected to sign in.  All students will sign up for a one credit seminar course, and both the presentation and the attendance (for both semesters) will compose the grade.


Biostatistics Lunch Talks
These are a series of brief presentations for and by our faculty, staff, and students. Bring your lunch at noon on Fridays. The presentation will begin at 12:20 pm and conclude by 12:50 pm. This schedule and updates will be emailed to department members.
 

Consulting Center Talks
A short presentation of a current consulting project for open discussion. Mondays at 3:30 PM.

Seminar Series Archives
(Click active links for announcement and abstract)

DATE Announcing SPEAKER'S  ADDRESS
2/13/2007 Yinghua Zhang (Grace) A Monte Carlo Study of the Cox’s and Aalen’s model for right censored survival data
2/27/2007 Jingxia Liu, PhD

Dissertation Defense: Utilizing Propensity Scores to Test Treatment Effects in Survival Data

3/6/2007 Michelle Johnson, PhD The Effectiveness of Task-Oriented Robot Assisted Therapy: A case study
3/20/2007 Daniel Gervini, PhD Outlier-resistant methods for the statistical analysis of samples of curves
7/16/2007 Yinghua Zhang, PhD Dissertation Defense
   
   
2006 Archive All 2006 seminar announcements in a single zip file  
2005 Archive All 2005 Seminar announcements in a single ZIP file.  
2004 Archive All 2004 Seminar announcements in a single ZIP file.