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2009

Smoothing Age-Period-Cohort Models: A Generalized Additive Model Approach
Date and Time:	Friday, February 6th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Bei Jiang PhD Department of Mathematics & Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta

Bayesian Modeling of ChIP-chip Data Using Latent Variables
Date and Time:	Friday, January 16th, 10:30-11:30am, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Faming Liang PhD Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University

2008

Bayesian Inference on Changes in Response Densities over Predictor Clusters
Date and Time:	Tuesday, December 16th, 10-11am, EPS/7107
Lecturer:	Amy Herring PhD Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

On parametric bootstrap methods in multi-level models with applications in small area estimation and related problems
Date and Time:	Tuesday, November 18th, 10-12pm, EPS/511
Lecturer:	Partha Lahiri PhD Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of MD

Meta Analysis for Rare Events
Date and Time:	Monday, November 10th
Lecturer:	Louise Ryan PhD Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard University

Using the Whole Cohort in the Analysis of Case-Cohort Data
Date and Time:	Thursday, October 30th
Visiting Scholar:	Dr. Norman Breslow Biostatistics School of Public Health, University of Washington & Member of the Biostatistics Program Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Cancer

Efficient Analysis of Associations between Haplotypes and Quantitative Traits in Family Studies
Date and Time:	Friday, June 6th
Lecturer:	Guoqing Diao PhD Department of Statistics, George Mason University

Applications of Nonparametric Bayes Methods in Epidemiology and Genetics
Date and Time:	Thursday, May 15th
Lecturer:	David Dunson PhD Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Mixture Modeling and Outlier Detection in Microarray Data Analysis
Date and Time:	Friday, April 18th
Lecturer:	Nysia George PhD Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University

Modeling cancer progression via pathway dependencies
Date and Time:	Friday, April 4th
Lecturer:	Sayan Mukherjee PhD Department of Statistical Science, Duke University

Disparities in Defining Disparities: Statistical Conceptual Frameworks
Date and Time:	Friday, March 7th
Lecturer:	Xiao-Li Meng PhD Professor & Chair, Department of Statistics, Harvard University

Bayesian variable selection methods for the analysis of genomic data
Date and Time:	Wednesday, February 6th
Lecturer:	Mahlet Tadesse PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Georgetown University

2007

Summarizing and Modeling Multi-Locus Linkage Disequilibrium Patterns
Date and Time:	Friday, December 7
Lecturer:	Sheng Feng PhD Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University

Summarizing Statistical Interaction and Sufficient Cause Interaction
Date and Time:	Tuesday, November 20
Lecturer:	Tyler J. VanderWeele PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago

Hazard and Rate Regression in the Presence of Differential Selection or Termination Probability
Date and Time:	Friday, October 26
Lecturer:	Qing Pan PhD Statistics Department, George Washington University

Analysis of Smoking Cessation Patterns Using a Stochastic Mixed Effects Model with a Latent Cured State
Date and Time:	Tuesday, June 19
Lecturer:	Sheng Luo Biostatistics Branch, DCEG & Johns Hopkins University

Population Structures and Genetic Case-Control Association Studies
Date and Time:	Friday, April 27
Lecturer:	Gang Zheng PhD Office of Biostatistics Research, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Weight change and mortality
Date and Time:	Monday, April 23
Lecturer:	Hanno Ulmer PhD Department of Medical Statistics, Innsbruck Medical University

Semiparametric Regression of Multi-Dimensional Genetic Pathway Data: Least Squares Kernel Machines and Linear Mixed Models
Date and Time:	Tuesday, April 10
Lecturer:	Xihong Lin PhD Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University

Genetic Studies for Ordinal Traits
Date and Time:	Wednesday, January 24
Lecturer:	Heping Zhang PhD Department of Biostatistics, Yale University School of Medicine

2006

Augmented Designs to Assess Immune Response in Vaccine Trials
Date and Time:	Monday, June 12, 2006, 1:00-2:00 pm, EPS 7101
Lecturer:	Dean Follmann PhD, Assistant Director for Biostatistics, NIAID, Chief Biostatistics Research Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Imputation Variance Estimation by Bootstrap Method for the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
Date and Time:	Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 10:30-11:30 am, EPS 7101
Lecturer:	Yan Li, PhD candidate Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park

Joint Estimation of Haplotype Frequencies and Association in Cohort Studies using Profile Likelihood Solutions
Date and Time:	Friday, January 13, 2006, 11:00-12:00 am, EPS 7101
Lecturer:	Tracy L. Bergemann, PhD University of Minnesota, Division of Biostatistics

2005

Estimating Diagnostic Accuracy From Designs With No Gold Standard Evaluation and With Partial Gold Standard Evaluation
Date and Time:	Friday, November 4, 2005, 1:00-2:00, EPS 7107
Lecturer:	Paul S. Albert Biometric Research Branch, NCI/NIH

Does the Z-score method resolve the neonatal mortality paradox?
Date and Time:	Tuesday, July 5, 2005, 1:00-2:00 pm, EPS 8101
Lecturer:	Enrique Schisterman Epidemiology Branch, NICHD, NIH

Family history of breast and ovarian cancer and the risk of breast carcinoma in-situ
Date and Time:	Thursday, June 2, 2005, 10:30-11:30 am, EPN/G
Lecturer:	Elizabeth Claus, PhD, MD Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health

A Model-based Background Adjustment for Oligonucleotide Expression Arrays
Date and Time:	April 11, 2005, 1:00-2:00 pm, EPS 7107
Lecturer:	Zhijin (Jean) Wu, PhD Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Nonparametric Binary Regression Using a Gaussian Process Prior
Date and Time:	March 11, 2005, 11:00 am, EPS 7101
Lecturer:	Anindya Roy UMBC

False negative report probability: evaluating a claim that there is no association
Date and Time:	February 25, 2005, 10:00 am, EPS 8101
Lecturer:	Sholom Wacholder & Hormuzd Katki DCEG, NCI

On linear combinations of biomarkers to improve diagnostic accuracy
Date and Time:	January 14, 2005, 11 am, EPS 7107
Lecturer:	Aiyi Liu National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH

2004

Multiple Testing Procedures for Control of the Generalized Family Wise Error Rate and Proportion of False Positives: Applications in Genomics
Date and Time:	November 8, 2004, EPS 7107, 11:00-noon
Lecturer:	Mark van der Laan Division of Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley

Likelihood based methods to estimate effects of unobserved, unlinked loci in association studies: applications to the ApoE locus and Alzheimer's disease
Date and Time:	October 5, 2004
Lecturer:	Stefan Bohringer University of Essen, Germany

Statistical Methods For Analysis of Microarray Time Course Gene Expression Data
Date and Time:	July 6, 2004, 10:30am, EPS 7107
Lecturer:	Hongzhe Li UC Davis School of Medicine

Analysis and design of haplotype-tagging studies of complex disease
Date and Time:	June 16, 2004, 1:00 pm, EPS, Room 8101
Lecturer:	Peter Kraft Harvard School of Public Health, Boston

Two-stage Genotyping in Genetic Association (abstract)
Date and Time:	April 27, 2004, 11:00 am, EPS/Room 7107
Lecturer:	Jaya Satagopan Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Genetic Association Studies Using Haplotypes (abstract)
Date and Time:	April 13, 2004, 1:00-2:00 pm, EPS T-41
Lecturer:	Glen A. Satten National Center for Environmental Health, CDC, Atlanta

Exploiting Gene-environment Independence in Population- and Family-based Case-control Studies
Date and Time:	March 11, 2004, 10:30 am, EPN/G
Lecturer:	Nilanjan Chatterjee National Cancer Institute

Validation of Models for Prediction of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations
Date and Time:	January 30, 2004, 11:00 am, EPS T-41
Lecturer:	Sining Chen Johns Hopkins University

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