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Date
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Speaker
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Seminar Title
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| July 11, 2013 |
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| June 13, 2013 |
Giovanni Parmigiani
Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health |
TBA |
| May 9, 20113 |
Heping Zhang
Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Public Health (Biostatistics) and Professor in the Child Study Center and of Statistics
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Genetic studies of multivariate traits (Abstract) |
| March 14, 2013 |
Alden Gross
Postdoctoral Fellow, Aging Brain Center
Institute for Aging Research |
Novel Approach for Estimating General Cognitive Performance to Address Big Questions in Cognitive Aging (Abstract) |
| February 14, 2013 |
John Staudenmayer
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Massachusetts |
TBA |
| January 10, 2013 |
Uri Eden
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Boston University |
Characterizing neural spiking dynamics
using point process adaptive filtering
(Abstract )
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| October 11, 2012 |
Andrea S. Foulkes, Sc.D.Associate Professor of BiostatisticsSchool of Public Health and Health SciencesUniversity of Massachusetts |
TBA |
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| Apr. 12, 2012 |
Andrea S. Foulkes, Sc.D.
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
School of Public Health and Health Sciences
University of Massachusetts |
TBA |
| Mar. 8, 2012 |
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| Feb. 9, 2012 |
Francesca Dominici, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Harvard University |
Bayesian Effect Estimation Accounting for Adjustment Uncertainty (BAC) (Abstract)
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| Jan. 12, 2012 |
Cyrus R. Mehta, Ph.D.
President and Co-Founder, Cytel Inc., andAdjunct Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
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Adaptive Promising Zone Designs for Oncology Trials (Abstract)
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| Dec. 8, 2011 |
Annette Molinaro, PhD
Yale University
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Tree-based Methods for Creating Survival Risk Groups (Abstract ) |
| Nov. 10, 2011 |
David R. Gagnon, MD MPH PhD
Senior Biostatistician, MAVERIC, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health
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The use of Logistic Regression to Obtain Risk Ratios: A Cautionary Tale (Abstract) |
Oct. 6, 2011
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Mitchell H. Gail, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
Biostatistics Branch
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
National Cancer Institute |
The Value of Risk Models, Including Models with SNPs, for Breast Cancer Prevention (ABSTRACT)
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| Sep. 8, 2011 |
Marvin Zelen, PhD
Lemuel Shattuck Research Professor of Statistical Science
Dep't of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health |
Should the Analyses of Multi-Center Randomized Clinical Trials be Guided by the Study Design? Basic ideas and insights (Abstract)
|
| Aug. 9, 2011 |
No Seminar |
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| July 14, 2011 |
No Seminar |
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| May 12, 2011 |
Jacob Gagnon
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
A logistic kernel machine model for gene pathway analysis (
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| March 29, 2011 |
Evan Johnson
Brigham Young University |
Dynamic latent models for estimating of genome-wide methylation levels from next-generation sequencing and tiling array experiments
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Feb. 10, 2011
*Time: 1:00 p.m.* |
Lee-Jen Wei
Harvard School of Public Health |
Association vs. Prediction (Abstract)
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| Jan. 20, 2011 |
Mark Chang, PhD.
Executive Director, Biostatistics & Data Management
AMGA Pharmaceuticals |
Contemporary Issues and Methods in Pharmaceutical Statistics (Abstract)
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| Jan. 13, 2011 |
David Salat, PhD
Assistant Professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School |
The Many Facets of Brain Aging as Assessed by MRI (Abstract)
|
| Dec. 9, 2010 |
NO SEMINAR! |
NO SEMINAR! |
| Nov. 11, 2010 |
Ralph D'Agostino
Boston University
|
Using Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Risk Functions in Public Health and Clinical Trials: The Framingham Experience |
| Oct. 21, 2010 |
Cecile Janssens
Erasmus University
Netherlands |
Recent developments in genetic risk prediction of complex diseases |
| Oct. 14, 2010 |
Luis Carvalho
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
Boston University
|
Bayesian Inference for Genome-Wide Association Studies |
| Sept 9, 2010 |
James F. Burgess
Department of Health Policy & Management
Boston University
|
Shrinkage Estimates When a Composite Measure of Quality is Conceptualized as a Formative Construct (Abstract)
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| August |
No seminar
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| July 8, 2010 |
Ming-Huei Chen
Boston University |
A comparison of strategies for analyzing continuous/dichotomous outcomes in genome-wide association studies with general pedigrees (Abstract) |
| June 10, 2010 |
Lee-Jen Wei
Harvard School of Public Health |
Canceled! |
| May 13, 2010 |
Nicholas J. Horton
Smith College |
TBA |
| Apr. 8, 2010 |
Elena Losina
Harvard Medical School |
Dealing with uncertainty in decision analysis modeling (Abstract) |
Apr. 1, 2010
*10:00am * |
Werner Kroll
Novartis Molecular Diagnostics |
Molecular Diagnostics: The Opportunity (Abstract) |
| Mar. 11, 2010 |
Sarah Rosner Preis
Framingham Heart Study/ NHLBI |
Methodological Challenges in Diabetes and Obesity Research: Examples from the Framingham Heart Study (Abstract) |
Jan 14, 2010
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Josée Dupuis
Department of Biostatistics
Boston University |
Statistical methods for gene mapping using high density SNPs in family samples (Abstract) |
| Nov 12, 2009 |
Eric Kolaczyk
Department of Math. and Stat.
Boston University |
Predicting gene targets of perturbations via network-based filtering of mRNA expression compendia (Abstract) |
| Oct 8, 2009 |
Ralph B. D'Agostino, Sr.
Department of Math. and Stat.
Boston University |
TBA |
| Sept 10, 2009 |
Aaron J Cohen
Health Effects Institute
Charlestown Navy Yard
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The Global Burden of Disease Due to Air Pollution: Current Estimates, and Work-in-Progress (Abstract) |
| August |
No Seminar |
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| July 9, 2009 |
Michael Pencina
Boston University |
Quantifying improvement in performance of risk prediction models "' is there a universe beyond the c statistics? (Abstract) |
| June 11, 2009 |
Peter V. Henstock Statistics, Visualization, and Data Mining
Pfizer Research Technology Center |
Combining Statistics & Visualization in Scientific Consulting (Abstract)
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| May 14, 2009 |
Elena Naumova
Tufts University |
Challenges in assessing seasonality in disease surveillance (Abstract). |
| Apr 14, 2009 |
Bhramar Mukherjee
University of Michigan |
Synergism of Gene and Environment in Case-Control Studies: A Bayesian Perspective (Abstract) |
| Mar 12, 2009 |
Nick Patterson
Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Genome wide association scans in samples that are admixed or contain related individuals (Abstract) |
| Feb 12, 2009 |
Bin Zhang
Clinical Epi Res & Train Unit
Boston University |
Pseudolikelihood Ratio Tests with Biased Observations (Abstract) |
| Jan 8, 2009 |
Robb Muirhead
Statistical Research & Consulting Center
Pfizer Global Statistics |
Recent developments in the analysis of QT interval data (Abstract) |
|
Oct 9, 2008
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Hongyu Zhao, Ph.D.
Department of Biostatistics,
Yale University |
Statistical Methods to Infer Transcriptional Regulatory Networks Using Genomics Data
(Abstract) |
|
Sept 11, 2008
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Michael Lavalley
Department of Biostatistics
Boston University
|
Use of the Contaminated Normal Distribution for Random-Effects Meta-Analysis
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| July 17, 2008 |
Bin Zhang
Boston University
Clinical Epi Res & Train Un |
A Novel Approach for Analysis of Fluctuating States in Musculoskeletal Diseases |
|
July 10, 2008
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C. Robert Horsburgh Jr
Department of Epidemiology and Department of Biostatistics
Boston University
|
Estimating confidence intervals for products of proportions and relative risks (Abstract)
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June 12, 2008
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P. K. Tandon, Ph.D.
Global BioMedical Operations
Genzyme Corporation, Inc.
|
Applications of Adaptive Designs in Biotech Product development |
| June 10, 2008 |
Michael Rosenblum Biostatistics Department at U.C. San
Francisco
|
Using Regression Models to Analyze Randomized Trials : Asymptotically Valid Hypothesis Tests Despite Incorrectly Specified Models (Abstract) |
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Joint Seminar with BU Dept of Statistics
(Held in Crosstown Building 801 Massachusetts Avenue; Room: 335)
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| June 5, 2008 |
Deepayan Sarkar
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
Using optical map alignments to study copy number changes (Abstract)
|
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May 8 2008
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Jay Emerson
Department of Statistics
Yale University
|
Spatial Distortion on Microarrays
(Abstract)
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Apr. 17 2008
* Time: 4-5 p.m.* |
Jun Liu
Department of Statistics
Harvard University |
Hunting for Interactions - A Bayesian approach
(Abstract) |
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Apr. 10 2008
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Arlene S. Ash
Boston University School of Medicine
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Providing Primary Care Providers with Incentives for Appropriate Emergency Department Use
(Abstract)
|
Joint Seminar with BU Statistics
(Held in the Stat Department 111 Cummington Street, Room 149)
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| Mar 27, 2008 |
Peter Muller, MD
Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas |
Bayesian Clustering Regression (Abstract) |
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Mar. 13 2008
|
Abdul J Sankoh
Vertex Pharmaceuticals |
An Overview of Group Sequential Analysis and Its Role in Drug Development
(Abstract) |
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Feb. 14 2008
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Ron Bosch
Harvard University, School of Public Health
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Long-term CD4 responses to combination HIV therapy: handling loss-to-followup via inverse probability weighting
(Abstract)
|
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Jan. 10 2008
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David L. Gold
Department of Math. and Stat., Boston University
|
Bayesian Inference of Real-time Gene Expression Profiles
(Abstract)
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Nov. 8 2007
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Nicholas J. Horton
Smith College
|
Much Ado About Nothing: Methods and Implementations to Estimate Incomplete Data Regression Models
(Abstract)
|
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*Oct. 10 2007*
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Makram Talih
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Hunter College, City University of New York
|
Online Estimation of a Variance-Covariance Matrix Varying Along Geodsics
(Abstract)
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Sep. 13 2007
|
Miguel Hernan
Harvard University School of Public Health
|
The elephant in the room? Adjusting for dynamic observation plans in HIV cohorts
(Abstract)
|
| Aug. 9 2007 |
No Seminar |
|
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Jul. 12 2007
|
Al Ozonoff
Department of Biostatistics,
Boston University
|
Variability of estimators for excess mortality
(Abstract)
|
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Jun. 14 2007
|
Josée Dupuis
Department of Biostatistics
Boston University
|
Application of Robust Score Statistics to Quantitative Trait Linkage Analysis in the Framingham Heart Study
(Abstract)
|
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May. 10 2007
|
Steven Ma
Department of Biostatistics
Yale University
|
Semiparametric Analysis of Case I Interval Censored Data
(Abstract)
|
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Apr. 12 2007
|
Erin Conlon
Department of Mathematics
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
|
Statistical Methods for Integrating Multiple Sources of Genomic Data
(Abstract)
|
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Mar. 8 2007
|
Adrienne Cupples
Department of Biostatistics
Boston University
|
Is a Sabbatical all play?
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Feb. 8 2007
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Michael Lavalley
Department of Biostatistics
Boston University
|
Modeling Exposure Trends in Meta-Analysis
(Abstract)
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Jan. 25 2007
*12:00-1:00PM*
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Wenxuan Zhong
Statistics Department
Harvard University
|
Variable Selection for Single Index Model
|
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Jan. 11 2007
|
Tim Heeren
Department of Biostatistics
Boston University
|
Are telephone survey's obsolete? Internet alternatives.
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Dec. 14 2006
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Elena Losina
Department of Biostatistics
Boston University
|
Grant Writing: A Biostatistician Perspective
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Nov. 9 2006
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Michael Pencina
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Boston University
|
Proportional Hazards Models: Choosing the Right Time Scale and Evaluating Performance
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Oct. 12 2006
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Gheorghe Doros
Department of Biostatistics
Boston University
|
Informed Dose Selection in Preclinical Studies
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Sept. 14, 2006
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Paola Sebastiani
Department of Biostatistics
Boston University
|
Bayesian Methods for Complex Traits
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