DATE

TITLE

SPEAKER

9/25/96

Frequency Domain Log-Linear Regression: Air Pollution and Mortality

Julia Kelsall
Dept of Mathematics & Statistics
Lancaster University

l0/4/96

Conceptual Errors in the Use of Statistics in Published Medical Research

Douglas Altman
Ctr for Statistics in Medicine, Institute of Health Sciences
Oxford, England

10/14/96

The Linear Mixed Model: A Critical Investigation in the Context of Longitudinal Data
(Joint Seminar with the Johns Hopkins Dept of Mathematical Sciences)

Geert Verbeke
Biostatistics Ctr
Catholic University of Louvain

10/23/96

Informal Discussion on Obtaining and Interpreting the Estimates in Change

Jan Sundquist
Dept of Community Health Sciences
Lund University
Sven-Erik Johansson
Dept of Community Health Sciences
Lund University

10/24/96

Defining Dietary Recommendations: Methodological Issues
(Jointly sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Dean's Office and Center for Human Nutrition)

George Beaton
Dept of Nutritional Sciences
University of Toronto
Alicia Carriquiry
Dept of Statistics
Iowa State University

11/6/96

Efficient Estimation of the Distribution of Quality Adjusted Survival Time

Anastasios Tsiatis
Dept of Statistics
North Carolina State University

11/11/96

Analyses of Repeated Markers Used to Predict Progression of Cancer

Sam Wieand
University of Pittsburgh

11/13/96

Adjusting Survival Curves for Confounders: A Review and a New Method

Josef Coresh
Dept of Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins University

12/4/96

Obtaining Information from and about Older People

Mary Grace Kovar
National Opinion Research Ctr
University of Chicago

12/9/96

Regression Models for a Bivariate Discrete and Continuous Outcome with Clustering

Garrett Fitzmaurice
Dept of Biostatistics
Harvard University School of Public Health

12/11/96

Longitudinal Methods for Studying Progression in Disability

Laurel Beckett
Institute on Aging
Rush University

12/18/96

Application of Latent Transitional Modeling to Gerontologic Research

Linda Collins
Dept of Human Development & Family Studies
Pennsylvania State University

12/19/96

Sample Size Considerations for Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci in Humans

Heping Zhang
Dept of Statistics
Yale University

1/8/97

Two Sample Densities Ratio Models and Their Applications in Binary Data
(Joint Seminar with the Johns Hopkins University Dept of Epidemiology

Jing Qin
Dept of Mathematics
University of Maryland-College Park

1/9/97

Combining Information with Missing Data: An Approach with Bayesian Hierarchical Models

Francesca Dominici
Institute of Statistics & Decision Sciences
Duke University

1/13/97

Inference of Evolutionary Relationships Using Nucleotide Sequence Data

Janet Sinsheimer
Dept of Biomathematics
UCLA

1/15/97

Spatial Analysis in Biometry

Peter Diggle
Dept of Mathematics & Statistics
Lancaster University

1/16/97

Bandwidth Matrix Selection for Multivariate Local Polynomial Regression

Andrew Schulman
National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke

1/17/97

Semiparametric Efficiency and Its Implication on the Design and Analysis of Group Sequential Studies

Daniel Scharfstein
Dept of Biostatistics
Harvard University School of Public Health

1/19/97

The Space-Time Distribution of Campylobacteria Food Poisoning in the North-West of England
AND
Analysis of Variance for Replicated Spatial Point Patterns

Janet Currie
Dept of Mathematics & Statistics
Lancaster University
Helen Wilson
Dept of Mathematics & Statistics
Lancaster University

1/22/97

A Score Test for Independence in an (RxC) Contingency Table with Missing Data

Stuart Lipsitz
Dept of Biostatistics
Harvard University School of Public Health

2/14/97

Bayesian Curve Fitting, Cart and Mars

Bani Mallick
Dept of Mathematics
Imperial College of Medicine

2/24/97

Efficient Estimation of Normalizing Constants from Markov Chain Monte Carlo Draws

Florin Vaida
Dept of Biostatistics
Harvard University School of Public Health

3/4/97

Genome Scanning for Linkage: An Overview

Alice Whittemore
Dept of Health Research Policy
Stanford University School of Medicine

4/23/97

The Effect of Model Misspecification on Gene Localization

Saunak Sen
Dept of Statistics
Stanford University

5/7/95

Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Semiparametric Selection Bias Models with Application to AIDS Vaccine Trials

Peter Gilbert
Dept of Biostatistics
Harvard University School of Public Health

5/27/97

Robust Permutation Tests and Randomized Clinical Trials

Vance Berger
Mathematical Statistician
Food and Drug Administration