Biostatistics Student Journal Club
2009-2010
Biostatistics Student Journal Club
2009-2010
Meetings every other Friday, 12-1 pm, room W4019
Date Presenter Article Pizza
Sept. 4 Jennifer Feder Statistical research: Some advice for beginners [.pdf] yes
Slides [.pdf] Hamada and Sitter
American Statistician (2004) vol. 58 (2) pp. 93-101
Discussion (Rubin, Gelfand) [.pdf]
Slides [.pdf] Hoenig and Heisey
The American Statistician (2001)
and
Some practical guidelines for effective sample size
determination [.pdf]
Lenth
The American Statistician (2001)
with it [.pdf]
Barnett et al.
International Journal of Epidemiology (2005) vol. 34
and
Do baseball players regress toward the mean? [.pdf]
Schall and Smith
American Statistician (2000) pp. 231-235
comparison of a treatment to a non-randomized
control group.
D'Agostino Jr.
Statistics in Medicine (1998) vol. 17 (19) [.pdf]
and
The central role of the propensity score in observational
studies for causal effects.
Rosenbaum and Rubin.
Biometrika (1983) vol. 70 (1) pp. 41-55 [.pdf]
Oct. 30 Nick Reich When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an yes
handout [.pdf] Outbreak of Zombie Infection [.pdf]
Munz, et. al.
Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress (2009)
McCall, et al.
Johns Hopkins University (2009)
Levine.
Winter break
Jan. 29 Haley Hedlin, Discussion about summer internships yes
Bruce Swihart Motivating article: Find an Internship, Amstat News
slides [.pdf] Additional information about writing cover letters and CVs,
and contact information for NIH internships
The BellKor solution to the Netflix Prize [2007,2008,2009]
Mar. 12 Simina Boca Note: room changed to W2015 for today yes
The case for objective Bayesian analysis [.pdf]
Berger
Bayesian Analysis (2006) vol. 1 (3) pp. 385-402
Apr. 30 Vivienne Thairu Title: The role of sampling weights when modeling yes
survey data [.pdf]
Pfeffermann
International Statistical Review, Vol. 61 No. 2 Aug,
1993 pp. 317-337.
May 14 George Wu How to read the statistical methods literature: A guide yes
for students [.pdf]
Murphy
American Statistician (1997) vol. 51 (2) pp. 155-157
and
Writing technical papers or reports [.pdf]
Ehrenberg
American Statistician (1982)
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