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DEPARTMENT OF BIOSTATISTICS
JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
SEMINARS SCHEDULED
SEPTEMBER 2004 to MAY 2005 |
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(unless otherwise noted, all
seminars are at 4 PM in Room W2030 of the BSPH Bldg) |
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DATE |
TITLE |
SPEAKER |
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9/22/04 |
Most Powerful Identification of
Differentially Expressed Genes in DNA Microarray Experiments |
John
Storey
Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington |
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9/29/04 |
Grand Rounds
Spatial
Association between Speciated Fine Particles and Human
Health Effects |
Scientific Introduction:
John Vandenberg
Office of Research and Development
National Center for Environmental Assessment
Statistical Presentation:
Montserrat
Fuentes
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University
Scientific Discussion:
John Vandenberg
Statistical Discussion:
Thomas
Louis
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Response:
Montserrat Fuentes |
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10/6/04 |
Can We Really Explain What We're
Doing? |
Hermann Habermann
Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer
US Census Bureau |
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10/13/04 |
Racial Profiling Analysis: Not
Always Black and White |
Gregory Ridgeway
RAND Statistics Group |
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10/20/04 |
Block Bootstrap Puzzles in HAC Robust Testing: The Sophistication of the Naive
Bootstrap |
Timothy Vogelsang
Departments of Economics and Statistical Science
Cornell University |
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10/27/04 |
Performance of Mixed-Effects Models When There Is a Correlation Between the
Random Effects and Covariates |
Charles
McCulloch
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
University of California, San Francisco |
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11/3/04 |
Multiple Testing Procedures and Applications to Genomics |
Sandrine Dudoit
Division of Biostatistics
University of California, Berkeley |
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11/10/04 |
A Mixture Representation of the
Stationary Distribution |
James
Hobert
Department of Statistics
University of Florida |
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11/17/04 |
Semiparametric Methods for Gene-Environment Case-Control Studies when Gene and
Environment Are Independent in the Population |
Raymond Carroll
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University |
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12/1/04 |
Some Musical Applications of Statistics |
Rafael
Irizarry
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
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12/8/04 |
Subspace Clustering and Exploratory Analysis of Gene Expression Data |
Andrew Nobel
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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12/15/04 |
Mammographic Screening before Age 50: Comparison of the Mortality Benefits and
the Radiation Risks |
Amy
Berrington de Gonzalez
Epidemiology Unit
Cancer Research UK |
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1/5/05 |
Grand Rounds:
Estimating Percentile-Specific Causal Effects: A Case Study of Micronutrient
Supplementation, Birth Weight, and Infant Mortality |
Scientific Introduction:
Joanne
Katz
Departments of International Health, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and
Ophthalmology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Statistical Presentation:
Francesca
Dominici
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Scientific Summary:
Parul Christian
Department of International Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Scientific Discussion:
Laura Caulfield
Department of International Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Statistical Discussion:
Zhiqiang
Tan
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
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1/7/05 |
Do
Current Air Pollution Levels Affect Human Health? Statistical and Computational
Models for Estimating Air Pollution Health Effects on a National Scale |
Roger
Peng
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
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1/12/05 |
Computational Developments in Identifying Mammalian CIS-Regulatory Elements
Facilitate Research in Developmental Biology and Cancer |
Sheng
Zhong
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health |
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1/19/05 |
Exchangeability and Regression Models |
Peter
McCullagh
Department of Statistics
University of Chicago |
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1/20/05 |
Statistics in Evolutionary Medicine: Resolving Intra-Host Phylogenies of Rapidly
Evolving Pathogens |
Marc
Suchard
Department of Biomathematics
University of California, Los Angeles |
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1/24/05 |
Flexible Prior Distributions for Triple-Goal
Estimates in Two-Stage Hierarchical Models
(NOTE: Location is Room W1020) |
Susan
Paddock
RAND Corporation |
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1/26/05 |
Bayesian Robust Inference for Differential Gene Expression |
Raphael Gottardo
Department of Statistics
University of Washington |
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1/27/05 |
Spatial Models for the Distribution of Extremes
with an Application to Air Quality |
Douglas Nychka
Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences Computing and Information
Systems Laboratory
National Center for Atmospheric Research |
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2/2/05 |
Grand Rounds
Using Wavelet-Based Functional Mixed Models to Characterize Population
Heterogeneity in Accelerometer Profiles: A Case Study |
Scientific Introduction:
Steven
Gortmaker, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard
School of Public Health
Statistical Solution:
Jeffrey Morris,
Program in Biomathematics and Biostatistics, University of Texas M.D. Anderson
Cancer Center
Scientific Discussion:
Benjamin Caballero,
Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health; Margarita
Treuth, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health
Statistical Discussion:
Rafael
Irizarry, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health |
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2/9/05 |
False Discovery Rate Adjusted
Multiple Confidence Intervals for Selected Parameters |
Yoav
Benjamini
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
Tel Aviv University |
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2/16/05 |
Non-Parametric Bayesian Data
Analysis |
Peter
Mueller
Department of Biostatistics
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center |
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2/17/05 |
Sufficient Dimension Reduction in
High-Dimensional Data |
Lexin
Li
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
University of California, Davis |
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2/22/05 |
(Joint Seminar with the
Department of Environmental Health Sciences)
The Faulty False Discovery Rate: How Do Biased
Nulls Affect Power and Control of the FDR? |
Hoa Nguyen
Department of Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University |
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2/23/05 |
Statistical Contributions to
Studying Global Environmental Change: Multilevel and Spatial Applications |
William Pan
Department International Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
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3/2/05 |
(Joint Seminar with the
Department of Environmental Health Sciences. NOTE: start time of 12:00 PM in
Feinstone Hall)
Location, Location, Location, and What to Do When It's Missing |
Frank
Curriero
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
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3/2/05 |
Grand Rounds
Mixed Model Approach to Assess Dose-Dependent Effects of CNTF on Retinal
Morphology |
Scientific Introduction:
Caroline Zeiss, Section of Comparative Pathology, Yale
University School of Medicine
Statistical Solution:
Heather
Allore, Section of
Geriatrics, Yale University School of Medicine
Scientific Discussion:
Ruben
Adler, Departments of
Ophthalmology and Neurosciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Statistical Discussion:
Marie
Diener-West, Department
of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
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3/9/05 |
Statistical Methods for ETL and Time Course Microarray Experiments |
Christina Kendziorski
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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3/11/05 |
(Joint Seminar with the
Department of Environmental Health Sciences. NOTE: location is Feinstone Hall)
Gaussian Processes for Spatial Modelling in Environmental Health: Parameterizing
for Flexibility vs. Computational Efficiency |
Chris
Paciorek
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health |
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3/16/05 |
School of Public Health/Preventive
Medicine Grand Rounds:
The Effectiveness of t-PA in Treating Acute Ischemic Stroke: Clinical,
Statistical and Policy Issues |
Thomas
Louis
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
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3/17/05 |
Penalized Spline Smoothing and Generalized Linear Mixed Models - Some Theory and
Applications |
Goran
Kauermann
Department of Economics and Business Administration
University of Bielefeld |
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3/30/05 |
Application of Copy Number Transitions Finder to the Analysis of the Tumor Copy
Number Data and to Mapping Sequence Variations in Mice Using BAC Array CGH |
Jane
Fridlyand
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of California, San Francisco |
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4/5/05 |
(Joint Seminar with the
Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology. NOTE: location is W4030)
The Human Proteome Folding Project and the Inferelator |
Richard Bonneau
Institute for Systems Biology |
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4/11/05 |
(Joint Seminar with the
Department of Environmental Health Sciences. NOTE: Location is W2029. TIME: 9:00 AM)
Design and Analysis of Studies of Cancer Risks from Major Genes |
Sining Chen
Department of Oncology
Johns Hopkins University |
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4/13/05 |
Pitfalls of Multiple Imputation with Small Numbers of Copies |
Russell Steele
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
McGill University |
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4/20/05 |
An Ensemble Kalman Filter for Real-Time Assimilation of Satellite Images |
Jonathan Stroud
Department of Statistics
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
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4/27/05 |
High Dimensional Predictive Estimation |
Edward George
Department of Statistics
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
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5/11/05 |
Strategies for Finding Pathways from Microarray Data |
Marcel Dettling
Department of Oncology
Johns Hopkins University |
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5/18/05 |
Air Quality, Infant Mortality, and the Clean Air Act of 1970 |
Michael Greenstone
Department of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
