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DEPARTMENT OF BIOSTATISTICS
JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
SEMINARS SCHEDULED
SEPTEMBER 2010 to MAY 2011 |
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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 |
| 9/8/10 |
Inference for Dynamic Treatment Regimes
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Susan Murphy
Institute for Social Research and Department of Statistics
University of Michigan |
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9/15/10 |
Cross-sectional Observations of Simple Counting Processes |
Nick Jewell
Departments of Biostatistics and Statistics
University of California, Berkeley |
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9/22/10 |
Changes in Health
Status During Aging: A Stochastic Modeling Approach to the Dynamics of the
Frailty Index |
Arnold Mitnitski
Geriatricks Medicine Research
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| 9/29/10 |
Assembling and
Aligning DNA Sequences from Next-generation Sequencers |
Steven Salzberg
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland |
| 10/6/10 |
Biomarkers as Networks, Not Individual Loci |
Trey Ideker
Division Chief of Genetics
Departments of Medicine and Bioengineering
University of California, San Diego
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10/13/10 |
Sensitivity Testing for Nonidentifiable Models, with Application to Longitudinal Data with Noninformative Dropout |
Jason Fine
Department of Biostatistics
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 10/20/10 |
False Discovery Rates and Copy Number Variation |
Bradley Efron
Department of Statistics
Stanford University |
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10/27/10 |
Functional Data
Analysis, Causal Inference and Brain Connectivity |
Martin Lindquist
Department of Statistics
Columbia University
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11/3/10 |
Inference for Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of Diffusion Tensors |
Armin Schwartzman
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard University
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11/10/10 |
Using Joint Longitudinal-Survival Models for Individual Prediction and Estimation of Treatment Effects |
Jeremy Taylor
Department of Biostatistics
University of Michigan |
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11/17/10 |
The Conservatism
of Bonferroni for a Large Number of Nearly Independent Comparisons |
Michael Proschan
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health |
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11/24/10 |
Thanksgiving Break |
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12/1/10 |
Analysis of Rolling Group Therapy Data Using Conditionally Autoregressive Priors |
Susan Paddock
Senior Statistician, Statistics Group
The Rand Corporation |
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12/8/10 |
A Non-Parametric Approach to Multi-SNP GWAS |
Knut Wittkowski
Experimental Design and Biostatistics
The Rockefeller University
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12/15/10 |
Grand Rounds*
The Role of Stochastic Epigenetic Variation in Evolution, Cancer, and Common Disease
*Grand Rounds begin at 3:45 PM
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Rafael Irizarry
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University
Andrew Feinberg
Department of Oncology and Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
Johns Hopkins University
Dani Fallin
Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins University
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12/22/10 - 1/23/10 |
Winter Break |
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1/12/11 |
Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of zero-inflated longitudinal patient-reported outcomes and survival
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Laura Hatfield
University of Minnesota |
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2/2/11 |
Latent Space Models
for Networks Using Aggregated Relational Data |
Tyler
McCormick
Department of Statistics
Cornell
University |
| 2/9/11 |
Meta Analysis of Functional
Neuroimaging Data via Bayesian Spatial Point Processes |
Jian Kang
Department of Biostatistics
University of Michigan |
| 2/16/11 |
Covariance Matrix Estimation
via Convex Optimization: Theory, Methods, Algorithms and Applications |
Xi Luo
Department of Statistics
University of Pennsylvania |
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2/23/11 |
Personalized Genomic
Medicine: Latent Variable Models for Assessing Individual Drug Sensitivity and
for Predicting Hereditary Disease Risk |
W. Evan
Johnson
Department of Statistics
Brigham
Young University |
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3/16/11 |
The Regulation of
Gene Expression Levels in Mammals |
John Marioni
European Molecular
Biology Laboratory
European Bioinformatics Institute
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3/21/11 - 3/25/11 |
Spring Break |
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| 3/30/11 |
Single-Index Signal
Regression |
Brian
Marx
Department of Experimental Statistics
Louisiana State University |
| 4/13/11 |
Improved
Double-robust Estimation in Missing Data and Causal Inference Models |
Andrea Rotnitzky
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard University |
| 4/20/11 |
Grand Rounds* Wearable Computing in
Epidemiology: Predicting Activity Type from Accelerometer Data
*Grand Rounds begin at 3:45 PM |
Ciprian Crainiceanu
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University
Brian Caffo
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University
Thomas Glass
Department of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins University |
| 4/27/11 |
Bayesian Borrowing of
Information Across High-dimensional Exposures and Outcomes |
Amy Herring
Gillings School of Global Public Health
University of North Carolina |
| 5/4/11 |
Genomics and Documentation in
Clinical Trials: Some Cautionary Tales |
Keith Baggerly
Department of Statistics
Rice University
(Joint with Center for Clinical Trials) |
