John McGready
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Presentations
The Luxury (and Necessity) of Context in Graduate Level Statistics Courses for Health Sciences Students. Invited Talk. Annual Meetings of the Statistical Society of Canada, Montreal QB, June 2018.
Assessment: An Essential Component of Students' Learning and Educators' Understanding. Topic Contributed Panel Session. Annual Meetings of the American Statistical Association, Baltimore MD, August 2017.
Regression Based Techniques for Clinical and Translational Research. BEAD Core Research Workshop: From Study Design to Statistical Plan II, April 2017, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore MD.
Is Parenthood Worse than Death of a Partner?: The Disconnect Between Research Results, Statistical Literacy, and Science Reporting. Ignite Baltimore, Baltimore MD, April 2016.
Statistics Education Through Online Education. Invited Panel Session. Annual Meetings of the American Statistical Association, Seattle WA, August 2015.
The Quest for a Universal Foundation of Reasoning Across Multiple Levels of Biostatistical Education. Invited talk. Brown University, Department of Biostatistics, Providence RI, February 2015.
Statistical Reasonings’ New Look. Invited Session, International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Flagstaff AZ, 2014.
Statistical Reasoning for the Masses. Invited Talk as part of the session “Massive Online Open Statistics (MOOS): Should We Be Teaching Statistics To
100,000 At a Time? ”. Annual Meetings of the Eastern North American International Biometric Society, Baltimore MD. 2014.
Teaching Statistical Reasoning to Public Health Graduate Students: Trying to Meet the Evolving Needs of Course Enrollees. Contributed Session, Section on Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences. Annual Meetings of the American Statistical Association, Montreal, August 2013.
Using Regression to Reinforce and Further Understanding about Confounding and Effect Modification. Invited Panel Session Teaching and Learning Applied Regression: Perspectives from Teachers and Students Annual Meetings of the American Statistical Association, San Diego, August 2012.
Regression Methods in Clinical Research. Invited Session given for the Academic Fellows from Division of General and Adolescent Medicine. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, April 2012.
A Quick Primer on Regression. Invited Session given at Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics for the Practicioner : Part 2 (One Day Seminar sponsored by Bayiew Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Data Management Core). Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, November 2011.
Considering Confounding and Effect Modification in Population Based Research. Invited Session given for the Academic Fellows from Division of General and Adolescent Medicine. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, September 2011.
Varying Data Based Examples to a Diverse Audience of Public Health Graduate Students in an Introductory Concept-Centric Biostatistics Course. Contributed Session, Section on Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences. Annual Meetings of the American Statistical Association, Miami Beach FL, August 2011.
Demystifying Hypothesis Testing. Invited Panel Session, Moving Beyond the Roldodex of Formulas: Teaching Statistical Thinking. Annual Meetings of the Eastern North American International Biometric Society, Miami FL. 2011.
Interaction Effects and Explanatory Designs. Invited Session given at Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics for the Practicioner (One Day Seminar sponsored by Bayiew Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Data Management Core). Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, March 2011, October 2011.
Comparing and Contrasting Statistical Software Choices. Invited Lecture, Department of Biostatistics Student Computing Club, April 2010.
On the Relative (Small Sample) Performance of Several Approaches to Confidence Intervals for a Difference in Means. Contributed Session, Section of Statistical Computing. Annual Meetings of the American Statistical Associations, Washington DC, August 2009.
Sample Size Computations for Detectable Odds Ratios in the Presence of a Binary Confounder. Invited Lecture, Department of Epidemiology Advanced Graduate Student Seminar, April 2009-11.
Some Key Ideas in Biostatistics. Monthly Seminars for Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Department of Neurology Fellows, February – May 2009
Teaching Introductory Statistics Online. Invited Panel Session, Section of Statistical Education. Annual Meetings of the American Statistical Associations, Denver CO, August 2008.
Two Studies Related to Statistical Education. PhD Thesis Defense, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School, Baltimore MD, August 2007.
Basic Biostatistics: Online Learning Versus On Campus Learning. Annual Meetings of the American Statistical Associations, Seattle WA, August 2006.
Enter the Bootstrap. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Wall of Wonder. Part of the Everthing You Wanted To Know About Biostatistics Series. Baltimore MD, February 2006.
Smoothing Percentiles in R With an Application to Achondroplasia. Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia PA, December 2005.
Basic Biostatistics: An Online Success Story. Annual Meetings of the American Statistical Associations, Minneapolis MN, August 2005.
Confounding and Interaction in Public Health Studies. Geisinger Health Systems, Danville PA, July 2003.
Everyone's Favorite Subject On-Line! Bringing Biostatistics to the Web. The International Conference on Teaching and Learning. Jacksonville FL, April 2001.
Difficulties in Achieving Truly Random Offender Samples: The Case for OPTS (Opportunity to Succeed) Evaluation. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. San Diego CA, November 1997.
Time Served in Prison by Federal Offenders. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology. San Diego CA, November 1997.