2001-2002 Academic Year   Seminars at Mayo location
Seminars at the CCBR location
Student Presentations
Other Seminar Series
Past Biostatistics Seminars
Seminar times are 3:30-4:30, unless otherwise noted
Social tea served at 3:00 in Mayo A434
Call 612-624-4655 for directions

2001 Seminars
Fall seminars are held in Mayo 100 on Tuesdays, unless otherwise noted
Seminar Date

Presenter

Topic
September 25

Wei Pan
  University of Minnesota
  Division of Biostatistics

Statistical Methods for Discovering Differentially Expressed Genes in Replicated Microarray Experiments
October 16

Mark Ecker
  University of Northern Iowa
  Mathematics and Computer Science
    Department

Detection and Modeling of Extreme Observations in Environmental Data
October 23

Douglas M. Hawkins
  University of Minnesota
  School of Statistics
      and
Bret J. Musser
  Merck Research Laboratories

Randomized Recursive Partitioning and Drug Discovery
October 30

Anne I. Goldman
  University of Minnesota
  Division of Biostatistics, School of Public    Health

Algorithm for Selecting Optimal Boundaries for Toxicity Monitoring in Phase II Clinical Trials

November 5

Please Note: This is a Monday!

Tony Sun
  University of Missouri
  Mathematics and Statistics Department

Statistical Analysis of Event History Data
December 17

Hal Stern-Candidate for Division Head
 Iowa State University
 Department of Statistics

Inference for Extremes with an Application to Disease Mapping


2002 Seminars
Winter seminars are held on Tuesdays, in Mayo 100, unless otherwise noted
Spring seminars are held on Wednesdays, in Moos 2-520, unless otherwise noted
Seminar Date Presenter Topic
 Postponed due to illness
Lance Waller and Aila Särkkä
 Emory University
 Department of Biostatistics, Rollins School   of Public Health
A Second-Order Spatial Analysis of Epidermal Nerve Fibers
January 22
Please note: This seminar is being held in the Cancer Center
David M. Rocke, Ph.D.-Candidate for Division Head
  Department of Applied Science
  University of California, Davis
Some Statistical Issues in the Analysis of Gene Expression Microarray Data
January 24
Please note: This seminar is being held in the Cancer Center
Sally C. Morton, Ph.D., Candidate for Division Head
  Head, Statistics Group
  RAND, Santa Monica, CA
Meta-analysis: From Heterogeneity to Understanding
January 28
Please note: This seminar is being held in the Cancer Center

Lynne Billard, Ph.D., Candidate for Division Head
  Department of Statistics
  University of Georgia

Modeling Disease Spread with Spatial Temporal Bilinear Models
January 29
James Berger, Ph.D.
 Duke University
 Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences
Could Fisher, Jeffreys and Neyman Have Agreed on Testing?

February 27

Changxuan Mao, M.S., Candidate for Assistant Professor
  University of California, Berkeley
The Species Problem with Applications in Digital Gene Expression
March 6
Jinbo Chen, M.S., Candidate for Assistant Professor
  University of Washington

Semiparametric Efficient and Useful Inefficient Estimation for the Auxiliary Outcome Problem with the Conditional Mean Model

March 22
Lurdes Inoue, Research Associate, Candidate for Assistant Professor
  M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
  University of Texas
Seamlessly Expanding a Randomized Phase II Trial to Phase III
March 25
Andrew George, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Candidate for Assistant Professor
  Department of Statistics
  University of Washington
The Need for Speed: Multipoint Linkage Analyses of Data Collected on Extended Pedigrees
March 26
Please note, this is being held in Mayo 100
Cavan Reilly, Ph.D.
  Division of Biostatistics
  University of Minnesota

Normalization of Microarrays Using the Genes That Are Not Differentially Expressed

March 28
Please note, this is being held in Moos 2-530

Sudipto Banerjee, Ph.D.
  Division of Biostatistics
  University of Minnesota

Multivariate Methods in Spatial Survival Analysis
April 3
John Connett, Ph.D., Candidate for Division Head
  Division of Biostatistics
  University of Minnesota
A Survey of Results from the Lung Health Study
April 9
Please note, this is being held in Mayo 100
Valen Johnson, Ph.D.
  Los Alamos National Laboratory
Bayesian Analysis of Rank Data with Application to Primate Intelligence Experiments
April 17
Robert Culverhouse, Ph.D
  Department of Psychiatry
  Washington University School of Medicine
Purely Epistatic Models
April 23
Please note, this is being held in Moos 2-690
Mike Daniels, Ph.D.
  Department of Statistics
  Iowa State University
Modelling Dependence in Longitudinal Data
April 26
Please note, this is being held in Moos 2-530
Chiung-Yu Huang, Ph.D.
  Department of Biostatistics
  Johns Hopkins University
Joint Modeling and Estimation for Recurrent Event Processes and Failure Time Data
May 17
Please note, this is being held in Moos 2-530
Debashis Gosh, Ph.D.
  Biostatistics
  University of Michigan
Penalized Regression Models for the Classification of Tumors from Microarray Experiments

 

 

The Terry Beirn Community Programs for
Clinical Research on AIDS (CPCRA)
Seminar Series - 3:30 PM on Monday
Seminar location is CCBR 2221 University Av SE - Suite 200
Call 612-626-8887 for directions
2001 Seminars
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2002 Seminars
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Student Presentations
Presentation locations and times vary
Call 612-624-4655 for information
Presentation
Date
Presenter Topic
May 30 Avis J. Thomas
 Plan B Advisor: Brad Carlin
Late Detection of Breast and Colorectal Cancer in Minnesota Counties: An Application of Spatial Smoothing and Clustering
July 18 Charlotte X. Wu
 Plan B Advisor: Patricia Grambsch
Investigating Noncompliance in CONVINCE Clinical Trial
July 20 Barbara Ann Clothier
 Plan B Advisor: James Neaton
Trends in the Hazard Ratios for Lung Cancer Mortality Attributed with Cigarette Smoking: Low Expected Cessation Versus High Expected Cessation Groups
July 26 Scott Lunos
  Plan B Advisor: John Connett
Two Possible Criteria for Choosing Smoothing Parameters
August 3 Xianqun Luan
 Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan
Adjusting Misclassification of a Binary Outcome in Logistic Regression
September 6 Jiangfeng Lu
 Plan B Advisor: Chap T. Le
Modifications of the Standard Design for Phase I Cancer Trials
September 7 Jiannong Liu
 Ph.D. Advisor: James Hodges
Characterizing Modality of the Posterior for Hierarchical Models
September 7 Robert Leduc
 Plan A Advisor: James Neaton
Modeling Left Censored Viral Load Data
September 12 Hongwei Xu
 Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan
An Evaluation of a Generalized Linear Mixed Model Used in the USRDS
September 14 Yaqian Guo
 Plan B Advisor: John Connett
Comparisons of Three Non-parametric Goodness-of-fit Statistics
September 26 Yan Sun
 Plan B Advisor: Will Thomas
Location Covariance Modeling of Electrophysiological Response to Emotion in Three Year Old Children
October 31 Xu Guo
 Plan B Advisor: Chap T. Le
On Kay & Little's Approach to Logistic Regression Model and Some New Results
November 6 Ruifeng Li
 Plan B Advisor: Melanie Wall
A Comparison of Multiple Regression to Two Latent Variable Techniques for Estimation and Prediction
November 8 Zengri Wang
 Ph.D. Advisor: Tom Louis
Metameters in Nonlinear Random Effects and Frailty Models
February 15 Shelley-Ann Ho Walters
  Plan B Advisor: James Neaton
A Case Example of Adverse Event Data Collection and Review: Implications for Future Trials
April 29 Lin Gu
   Plan B Advisor: Cavan Reilly
A Comparison of Methods for the Analysis of the GART Study
May 2 Kurt Stromberg
  Plan B Advisor: Melanie Wall
Defining Alcoholism Treatment Episodes from Mental Health Care Utilization Records
May 14 Changchun (Alan) Wang
  Plan B Advisor: Cavan Reilly
Comparison of Cluster Analyses by Using the Maximum Kappa Statistic
May 24 Fujun Wang
  Ph.D. Advisor: Melanie Wall
Generalized Common Spatial Factor Model
June 11 Yu (James) Dai
  Plan B Advisor: Melanie Wall
Application of GEE to a Longitudinal Poisson Study on Alcoholism Treatment
June 11 Erika Pouliot
  Plan B Advisor:
Interval Censored Survival Analysis of Time to Detectable Viral Load in Persons Infected with HIV-1
June 20 Cong Han
  Ph.D. Advisor: Kathryn Chaloner
Optimal Designs for Nonlinear Regression Models with Applications to HIV Dynamic Studies
June 21 Haolan Lu
  Plan B Advisor: William Dunsmuir
Observation Driven and Parameter Driven Model in Time Series of Binomial Counts
June 24 Mir Said Siadaty
  Plan B Advisor: Patricia Grambsch
Truncation in Survival Analysis, with Application in the US Forestry Survey
June 27 Lingfeng Yang
  Plan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

Power and Bias in Adjusting for Clinic Effects: Stratified, Clustered, and Frailty Models

July 17 Zihong Zhao
  Plan B Advisor: John Connett
Effects on Statistical Power of Excluding Middle Subset in Linear and Logistic Regression Analysis
July 25 Jianfen Shu
  Plan B Advisor: Jim Neaton
Impact of Different Approaches for Handing Losses to Follow-up in Clinical Trials

Other University of Minnesota Seminar Series
University of Minnesota - School of Statistics
Biological Seminars at the University of Minnesota