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SEMINARS SCHEDULED
SEPTEMBER 2000 to MAY 2001

 

DATE

TITLE

SPEAKER

9/6/00

Controlling the False Discovery Rate in Behavioral Genetics

Yoav Benjamini
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
Tel Aviv University

9/13/00 Non/Semi-Parametric Estimation of the Time-to-Event Distribution 
in the Presence of Informative Censoring
Daniel Scharfstein
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University
9/20/00 Phylogenetic Inference from Mitochondrial Genome Arrangement Data Bret Larget
Department of Mathematics
Duquesne University
9/27/00 Detecting Threshold Effects in Epidemiologic Studies
Eliseo Gualler
Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins University

10/4/00

Cox Regression With Accurate Covariates Unascertainable: A Nonparametric-Correction Approach

Eugene Huang
Public Health Sciences Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

10/11/00 Sequential Classification on Partially Ordered Sets
Curtis Tatsuoka
Department of Statistics
George Washington University

10/18/00

Genetic Association Tests for Nuclear Families

Mei-Chiung Shih
Department of Health Research and Policy
Stanford University

10/25/00 Exploratory Data Analysis Whither & Whence: A Personal Journey
Howard Wainer
Educational Testing Service
11/1/00 Grand Rounds
Validating Surrogate Endpoints in Cancer: Are Tumor Response and Progression-Free Survival Valid Surrogates for Survival?
Speaker: Marc Buyse, International Institute for Drug Development (ID2)
Discussants
: Constantine Frangakis, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
Steven Piantadosi, Departments of Oncology and Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
11/8/00 Some Topics in the Theory of Statistical Practice
Andrew Gelman
Department of Statistics
Columbia University
11/15/00 Estimation of the Impact of an Unemployment Bonus Experiment with
Selective Compliance
Geert Ridder
Department of Economics
Johns Hopkins University

11/29/00

Inference on Tree-Valued Random Variables

David Banks
Bureau of Transportation Statistics

12/6/00

Algorithms for Whole Genome Analysis

Steven Salzberg
The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and
Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University

12/13/00 Haplotype-Based Analyses in Genetic Case-Control Studies Daniele Fallin
Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins University
12/20/00 Algorithms for Pedigree Analysis Jeffrey O'Connell
Department of Human Genetics
University of Pittsburgh
1/9/01 Gene Expression Analysis from DNA Microarrays Jenny Bryan
Department of Biostatistics
University of California-Berkeley
1/10/01 Grand Rounds:
Prospective Meta-Analysis
Speaker: Jesse Berlin
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of Pennsylvania
Discussants: Curt Meinert, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University; and Steve Goodman, Departments of Oncology, Biostatistics, and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University
1/17/01 Model Uncertainty, Penalization, and Parsimony Frank Harrell
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
University of Virginia
1/24/01 Estimating Penetrance and Residual Familial Correlation Using Kin-Cohort Data: A Two-Stage Approach Nilanjan Chatterjee
Statistical Research and Applications
Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics
National Cancer Institute
1/31/01 A Score Test for the Genetic Mapping of Complex Human Traits Sandrine Dudoit
Department of Biochemistry
Stanford University School of Medicine
2/5/01 Generalized Structural Mean Models and Sensitivity Analysis for Causal Inference  Els Goetghebeur
Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Ghent
2/7/01 Grand Rounds
Gene Frequency Maps & Human Disease
Speaker: Aravinda Chakravarti
Discussants: Terri Beaty, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University
Karl Broman, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
2/13/01 Models for Causal Inference from Observational Data: A Focus on HIV/AIDS Miguel Hernan
Department of Epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health
2/14/01 Double Robustness in Ignorable and Non-Ignorable Missing Data and Causal Inference Models James Robins
Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Harvard University School of Public Health
2/15/01 The Pseudomarker Algorithm Faking Data for QTL Data Analysis Saunak Sen
The Jackson Laboratory
2/21/01 Locally Efficient Estimation in Censored Data Models Mark van der Laan
Department of Biostatistics
University of California, Berkeley
2/26/01 A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithm For Approximating Exact Conditional Probabilities Brian Caffo
Department of Statistics
University of Florida
2/28/01 Epidemiologic Study Design: New Challenges to Old Paradigms Sholom Wacholder
National Cancer Institute
3/1/01 Compression and Analysis of Microarray Images Rebecka Jörnsten
Department of Statistics
University of California, Berkeley
3/5/01 Two Sensitivity Analyses for Regression Inference in Observational Studies Ben Hansen
Department of Statistics
University of California, Berkeley
3/7/01 Grand Rounds:
Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Tamoxifen for Preventing Breast Cancer
Speaker: Mitchell Gail, Biostatistics Branch, National Cancer Institute
Discussants: Kathy Helzlsouer, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University; and Giovanni Parmigiani, Departments of Oncology and Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
3/14/01 A New Regression Methodology Using Boolean Logic Ingo Ruczinski
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
4/4/01 Grand Rounds
A Dynamic Adaptation of the Propensity Adjustment for Treatment Effectiveness Analyses
Speaker: Andrew Leon, Cornell University Departments of Biostatistics and Psychiatry
Discussants: Scott Zeger, Johns Hopkins University Department of Biostatistics; and William Eaton, Johns Hopkins University Department of Mental Hygiene
4/11/01 Data Mining Large Musical Data Bases David Huron
Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory
Ohio State University

4/18/01

The Lowell Reed Lecture:
Gene Expression Data: Questions, Answers and Statistics

Terry Speed
Department of Statistics
University of California, Berkeley

4/25/01 Dependence between Failure Time and Visit Compliance: Testing and Implications for Analysis Rebecca Betensky
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health
4/26/01 Analysis of Global Patterns of Gene Expression John Quakenbush
The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR)
5/2/01 Grand Rounds
First Generation Airbags: An Evaluation of Their Effectiveness
Speaker: Maria Segui-Gomez
Department of Health Policy and Management
Johns Hopkins University
Discussants: Ron Brookmeyer, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University; and David Banks, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
5/9/01 SQUARE (Smooth Quantile Ratio Estimation): Smoking, Disease, and the Cost of Medical Expenditures in the US Francesca Dominici and Scott Zeger
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University

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