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

2002 Seminars

Seminar Date

Presenter

Topic

September 18
Moos 5-125

Chap Le, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
Division of Biostatistics

Some Issues in the Identification of Vaccine Responders

September 23
Moos 2-580

Saurabh Ghosh, Ph.D.
  Washington University
  School of Medicine
  Department of Psychiatry

Nonparametric Alternatives for Sib-based QTL Mapping: Some Statistical Comparisons and an Application to Beta 2 EEG Waves in COGA

October 2
Moos 5-125

Sally Bushhouse, DVM, PhD
Minnesota Department of Health

Cancer Registration and its Use (and Misuse) for Understanding Geographic Disease Patterns

October 18
Moos 2-520

Roderick J. Little, Ph.D.
University of Michigan
Division of Biostatistics

On Incorporating the Selection Probabilities into Robust Model-Based Survey Inference

October 23
PWB 2-470

Anne Goldman, Ph.D.
University of Minnestoa
Division of Biostatistics

Statistical and Practical Issues in Long-Term Follow-Up Patients, Illustrated via the U of MN Blood and Marrow Transplant Program

November 20
Moos 2-650

Galin Jones, Ph.D.
University of Minnestoa
Statistics Department

Ascent-Based Monte Carlo EM

December 4
Moos 2-650

Jim Hobart, Ph.D.
University of Florida

Perfect Sampling: Basic Ideas and an Interesting Connection

2003 Seminars
Spring Seminar locations and days vary, due to faculty searches.

Seminar Date

Presenter

Topic

February 3
Moos 2-620

Yan Li
Yale University

Analyzing Multiply Matched Cohort Studies with Two Different Comparison Groups: Application to Pregnancy Rates among HIV+ Women

February 5
Moos 2-620

Hua Yun Chen
University of Illinois at Chicago

Non-parametric and Semiparametric Models for Missing Covariates in Parametric Regression

February 7
Moos 2-620

Kui Zhang, Ph. D.
Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California

A Dynamic Prgogramming Algorithm for Haplotype Block Partitioning and its Application in Association Studies

February 10
Moos 2-620

Chien-Cheng Tseng
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard University

Sequential Clustering: With Applications to Microarray

February 12
Mayo C231(Todd)

Na (Micheal) Li
Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

Statistical Methods for Analyzing Linkage Disequilibrium and Recombination

February 14
Moos 2-620

Brooke Fridley
Iowa State University

A Data Augmentation Procedure for the Handling of Censored Spatial Data

February 17
Moos 2-620

Dan Gillen
University of Washington

The Use of Weighted Logrank Statistics in Group Sequential Testing and Non-proportional Hazards

February 26
Mayo 100

Dabao Zhang
Department of Statistical Science
Cornell University

Bayesian Normalization and Identification for Differential Gene Expression Data

February 28
Mayo 100
10:30 AM

Abdus Wahed
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University

Efficient Estimation of the Survival Distribution and Related Quantities for Treatment Policies in Two-Stage Randomization Designs in Clinical Trials

March 3
Moos 2-620

Mayetri Gupta
Department of Statistics
Harvard University

Sequence Pattern Discovery under a Stochastic Dictionary Framework

March 5
Moos 2-620

David van Dyk, Ph.D.
Department of Statistics
Harvard University

Causal Inference with General Treatment Regimes: Generalizing the Propensity Score

March 10
Moos 2-650

Montserrat Fuentes, Ph.D.
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University

Validation of Air Quality Models and Spatial Interpolation by Combining Observations with Outputs from Numerical Models

March 12
Moos 2-650

Xiaoqiong Joan Hu, Ph.D.
Department of Math Sciences
University of Memphis

Nonparametric Interim Analyses in Clincal Trials: Repeated Confidence Bands Approach

March 24
Moos 2-620

Xin Ming Tu
  Department of Biostatistics and Clinical     Epidemiology
  School of Medicine
  University of Pennsylvania

Funtional Response Models and their Applications

April 30

Steve Scott
Department of Statistics
University of Southern California

A Longitudinal Comparison of Two Drugs Using a Hidden Markov Health State Model

Student Presentations
Presentation locations and times vary
Call 612-624-4655 for information

Presentation
Date

Presenter

Topic

September 4

Qiao Fan
Plan B Advisor: James Hodges

Conditional Autoregressive (CAR) Model Applied to a Periodontal Data Set

October 7

Brian Reich:
Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan

Sample Size Calculations with Correlated Binary Data and Multiple Treatments

December 7

Xin Deng:
Plan B Advisor: Anne Goldman

A Comparison of Different Tests for 2xK Ordinal Contingency Table

December 18

Elizabeth Schivitz:
Plan B Advisor: Melanie Wall

Methods for Analysis of Time-to-Event Data with Time-Varying Covariates: Comparisons Using Data from the MRFIT Trial

February 19

Khadeeja Pruett:
Plan B Advisor: Sue Duval

Estimating the Overall Mean When Study-Specific Variances are Unknown: A New Meta-Analytic Method

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
2002/2003 Seminars

**2002 Seminars**
Seminar Date	Presenter	Topic
October 28	Chris Mullin Division of Biostatistics University of Minnesota	NvR Redux - Secondary Results and Works-in-Progress
November 4	Dr. Tim Schaker Associate Professor of Medicine University of Minnesota	Immune Reconstitution Following ART
November 11	Dr. Hank Balfour Minnesota AIDS Clinical Trials Unit
November 18	No seminar	(CPCRA Group Meeting)
November 25	No seminar	(Thanksgiving Break)
December 2	Professor Robert Vince Drug Development Center College of Pharmacy University of Minnesota	Design of Drugs for the Treatment of Viral Diseases
December 9	Dr. Keith Henry Hennepin County Medical Center	How T-20 Fits and Approach to Salvage Therapy

2003 Seminars

January 27	Dr. Winston Cavert and Judy Webb	Viral Fitness in HIV Disease