2005-2006 Seminars

Date
Location
Presenter Topic
September 21
Moos 2-690
Jim Hodges
  Division of Biostatistics School of Dentistry
  University of Minnesota
Smoothed Analysis of Variance
October
26
Moos 2-690
Chap Le
  Division of Biostatistics
  University of Minnesota
T-Test, Hotelling's T22 Test, Odds Ratio, and the Logistics Regression Model
November
2
Moos 2-690
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 2-620
Lance Waller
  Department of Biostatistics
  Emory University
A Spatial Analysis of Epidermal Nerve Fibers
November
16
Moos 2-530
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 2-690
Hui Zou
  Department of Statistics
  University of Minnesota
The Margin Vector and Multi-class Margin-based Classifiers
January
25
PWB 2-470
Peter Hoff
  Department of Statistics and Biostatistics
  University of Washington
Dimension selection for SVD models, with applications to relational data
February
3
Moos 2-690
Richard Evans
  College of Veterinary Medicine
  Iowa State University
Combining expert information for the analysis of animal health screening tests
February
8
Moos 2-620
Chin-shang Li
  Biostatistics
  St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital
A Local Linear Kernel-based Test for Nonlinear Regression Models
February
10
Moos 2-690
Jennifer Schumi
  Biostatistics
  Harvard University
Relating genotype to phenotype: Resampling-based 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 2-690
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 2-620
Zhang-sheng Yu
  Biostatistics
  University of Michigan
Nonparametric Regression for Correlated Failure Time Data
February
24
Moos 2-690
Yang Xie
  Division of Biostatistics
  University of Minnesota
A Bayesian approach to joint modeling of DNA-protein binding data, gene expression data and DNA sequence data
February
28
Moos 2-620
Jim Hodges
  Division of Biostatistics and School of Dentistry
  University of Minnesota
An Approach to Diagnostics for Multiple Error-term Linear Models
March
1
Moos 2-620
Hongzhe Li
  Biostatistics
  University of Pennsylvania
Statistical Modeling of Pathways and Networks for Genomic Applications
March
16
Moos 2-620
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 2-620
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 2-690
Bradley P. Carlin
  Division of Biostatistics
  University of Minnesota
Using R and BRugs in Bayesian Clinical Trial Design and Analysis
April
26
Moos 2-620
Ivan S. F. Chan, Ph.D.
Clinical Biostatistics
Merck Research Laboratories
Statistical Challenges of Multiple Endpoints in Clinical Trials
May
3
Moos 2-620

Jeffrey Morris
University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Bayesian Wavelet-Based Functional Mixed Models