2008-2009 Seminars

2008-2009 Seminars
Date Location	Presenter	Topic
September 12 Moos 2-620	Saurabh Ghosh Human Genetics Unit Indian Statistical Institute	Model-Free Linkage and Association Mapping Of Complex Traits Using Quantitative Endophenotypes
September 24 Moos 5-125	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 2-620	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 5-125	Ruzong Fan Department of Statistics Texas A&M University	Extended Homozygosity Score Tests to Detect Positive Selection in Genome-wide Scans
November 5 Moos 5-125	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 5-125	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 5-125	Wei Pan Division of Biostatistics University of Minnesota	Some Old and New Tests of Disease Association with Multiple SNPs in Linkage Disequilibrium
January 15 Moos 2-520	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 1-450	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 1-450	Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou Department of Biostatistics University of Washington	Some New Models for Predicting Health Care Costs of Individual Patients
April 8 Moos 1-450	Dalene Stangl Department of Statistical Science Duke University	Linking Statistical Analysis and Decision Analysis in Health-Related Research
April 14 Moos 1-450	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 1-450	Joshua Sampson Department of Biostatistics Yale University	Selecting SNPs to Correctly Predict Ethnicity
April 21 Moos 1-450	Zuoheng Anita Wang Department of Statistics The University of Chicago	Testing Untyped SNPs in Case-Control Association Studies with Related Individuals
April 22 Moos 1-450	Karla Ballman Mayo Clinic, Rochester	Some Trials Encountered in Clinical Trials
April 28 Moos 1-450	Erik Bloomquist Biostatistics University of California, Los Angeles	Hierarchical Models in Molecular Evolution
April 30 Mayo 3-125	Julian Wolfson Department of Biostatistics Univeristy of Washington	Statistical Identifiability and the Surrogate Endpoint Problem, with Application to Vaccine Trials