Seminars

Previous Seminar Speakers
Academic Year 2001-2002

SPEAKER	TITLE
2002 (02-2)
Douglas Potter, PhD Research Associate UPCI Statistician Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh	Early-Stage Clinical Trials in the Evaluation of Drugs Used to Treat Cancer
Wengsheng Guo, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	Functional Mixed Effects Models
Yanming Yin PhD Defense Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh	Tree-Structured Modeling for Interval-Censored Survival Data
Bo Lu Department of Statistics The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania	Matching with Doses in an Observational Study of a Media Campaign Against Drug Abuse
Eleanor Feingold, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Human Genetics University of Pittsburgh	Microarrays 101 for Statisticians: An Introduction to the Biology and Statistics Behind DNA Microarray Data
Cong Han Coordinating Centers for Biometric Research Division of Biostatistics University of Minnesota	Optimal Design for Nonlinear Regression Models
Joel Greenhouse, PhD Professor and Associate Dean Department of Statistics College of Humanities and Social Sciences Carnegie Mellon University	The Practice of Meta-Analysis: Statistical Issues and Opportunities for Research
Lei Nie Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago	Leplace Approximation in Nonlinear Mixed-effects Models
Fang-chi Hsu Department of Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University	Multipoint Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping Approaches Based on the Case-Parent Trio Design
Preview of student presentations for ENAR meetings Zekarias Berhane Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh Rana Ezzeddine Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh Michael Brent McHenry Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh Maria K. Holmes-Mor Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh Jiping Wang Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh Hsiao-Lan (Jenny) Wei Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh ZhiWei Zhang Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh	Flexible Modeling of Recursive Multiple Event Survival Dataset Analogous to Anderson and Gill A Comparison of Test Statistics for Cox's Proportional Hazards Assumption Estimation of Covariate Effects in Aalen's Additive Risk Model Using Smoothing Splines Implications of Loss Functions on Bayesian Evaluation of Multiple Treatment Effects Conditional and Unconditional Time Dependent Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve An Imputation Method for Intermittent Missing Values A Copula-Based Semiparametric Model for Meta-Analytic Assessment of Surrogate Endpoints
Zdenek Valenta PhD Defense Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh	Estimation of the Survival Function for Gray's Piecewise-Constant Time-Varying Coefficients Model
Wei Li PhD Defense Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh	Resampling Approach for Estimating Prediction Error and for Adjusting Logistic Regression Coefficients for Covariate Measurement Error
Dr. Bala Chandra Professor Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi	Artificial Neural Networks and its Applications
2001 (02-1)
Christine Gause PhD Defense Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh	Methods for Combining Covariate Data Obtained by Multiple Sampling Schemes in Occupational Cohort Studies
Dr. Tom Ten Have, PhD Division of Biostatistics Department of Biostatistics & Clinical Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine	A Mixed View of Mixed Effects and Population-Averaged Logistic Models
Mitchell Gail, MD, PhD Chief, Biostatistics Branch Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics National Cancer Institute	A Comparison of Cohort, Case-Control and Family Study Designs for Estimating the Risk from an Identified Autosomal Dominant Gene
Dr. Alan Sampson, PhD Department of Statistics University of Pittsburgh	Iso-chi-squared testing of 2xk ordered tables
Dr. Sam Wieand, PhD Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh	Design and Analyses Issues for a Test of Tamoxifen Effect in Woman with Inherited Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2: Do We Need to Determine the Genetic Status of Controls?
Daniel Scharfstein, PhD Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health	Inference in Randomized Studies with Informative Censoring and Discrete Time-to-Event Endpoints
2001 (01-2)
Preview of student presentations for ENAR meetings Zekarias Berhane Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh Wei Li Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh Zdenek Valenta Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh Hsiao-Lan Wei Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh ZhiWei Zhang Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh	Regression Diagnostics Using the Martingale Residuals for the Additive Hazards Model Re-partitioning Model Validation Methods Estimation of the Survival Function for Gray's Piecewise Constant Time Varying Coefficients Model Using Propensity Scores to Estimate Missing Data in Clinical Trials of Otitis Media A Comparison of Permutation Tests in a Two-Way Crossed Classification
Dr. Lili Tian Department of Biostatistics University of Rochester Medical Center	A Test for Equality of Order-Constrained Inverse Gaussian Means
Special Seminar - PhD Defense Kenneth Liu Department of Biostatistics University of Pittsburgh	Cox Regression Analysis with Measurement Error in Covariates
Gong Tang Department of Biostatistics University of Michigan	Pseudo Likelihood Selection Models for Non-MAR Missing Data
Dr. Joseph Hogan Center for Statistical Sciences Department of Community Health Brown University	Mixtures of Varying Coefficient Models for Longitudinal Data with Nonignorable Dropouts
Dr. James Mancuso Department of Preventive Medicine State University of New York at Stony Brook	Exact Distributions of Occupancy Statistics with Epidemiologic and Biomedical Applications
Dr. Kevin Nelson School of Medicine and Dentistry Department of Biostatistics University of Rochester	A Multifactorial Approach for Describing the Relationship Between the Classification of Shellfish Harvesting Waters and Adjacent Land Use in Murrells and North Inlet, South Carolina
Douglas Landsittel, PhD Research Statistician National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health Centers for Disease Control	Distribution of the Likelihood Ratio Statistic for Inference with Neural Networks

Seminars

Previous Seminar Speakers Academic Year 2001-2002

Previous Seminar Speakers
Academic Year 2001-2002