Workshop in Biostatistics

Time: 1:15 pm - 3:00 pm
October 4 - November 29, 2007

Place: Center for Clinical Sciences Research (CCSR)
4th Floor, Rm 4205 (The side with Deli)

Date	Speaker	Title of Talk
10/4	John Neuhaus Professor of Biostatistics, UCSF	The consequences of misspecifying the random effects distribution when fitting generalized linear mixed models (Abstract)
10/11	Anat Reiner-Benaim Stanford Genome Technology Center, Dept of Biochemistry	Approaches to Multiplicity Issues in Genome Research (Abstract)
10/18	Workshop cancelled	--
10/25	Sylvia Plevritis Asso Prof (Research) of Radiology Radiology-Diagnostic Radiology, Stanford	Modeling Cancer Screening Outcomes (Abstract)
11/1	Ying Lu Dept of Radiology, Epi and Biostat, UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center	Discriminating Grade II Astrocytomas and Oligodendrogliomas Using the Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) Parameters (Abstract)
11/2 *Friday (3-4pm)	Chiara Sabatti Human Genetics and Statistics, UCLA	Mining High Density Genotype Data for Variations in Copy Number (Abstract)
11/8	Eric Xing Machine Learning Dept, Language Technology Institute and Computer Science Dept Carnegie Mellon University	Nonparametric Bayesian Methods for Genetic Inference (Abstract)
11/14 *Wed (2-3pm)	Lu Tian Dept of Preventive Medicine Northwestern University	Prediction Model Evaluation for Personalized Medicine (Abstract)
11/15	John Morton and Tina Hernandez-Boussard Surgery, Stanford	Predictors of Quality (Abstract)
11/29	Jay Bartroff Asst Professor, Dept of Mathematics University of Southern California	Dynamic Screening and Treatment Regimes Under Constraints (Abstract)

Contact Bonnie Chung (650-723-5301 / ) to be on the e-mail list. Suggestions and self-nominations for seminar and topics are welcome.