Workshop in Biostatistics
Time: 1:15 pm - 3:00 pm
January 12 - March 16, 2006
Place: Center for Clinical Sciences Research (CCSR)
4th Floor, Rm 4205 (The side with Deli)
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk |
| 1/12 | Steven Evans Department of Statistics and Mathematics and the Graduate Group in Computational and Genomic Biology, University of California, Berkeley |
Aging, mortality and quasi-stationarity (Abstract) |
| 1/19 | John S Witte Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of California, San Francisco |
Candidate gene "pathway" and genomewide association studies: design and analysis issues (Abstract) |
| 1/26 | Neil Risch Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Director, Center for Human Genetics Univ of California, San Francisco |
Population genetic structure, race/ethnicity, admixture and confounding: results from the Family Blood Pressure Program (Abstract) |
| 2/2 | Sharon Perry Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford School of Medicine and Julie Parsonnet George DeForest Barnett Professor in Medicine and Professor of Health Research and Policy (Epidemiology) |
Acquisition of H. pylori in early life and the problem of small numbers (Abstract) |
| 2/9 | Qing Zhou PhD candidate Dept of Statistics, Harvard University |
Detecting Cis-Regulatory Modules and Motifs by Modeling Correlated Structures in Genomic Sequences (Abstract) |
| 2/16 | Laetitia Comté University of Liège, Liège, Belgium |
Non-compliance with drug dosing regimens: an underestimated phenomenon in clinical trials (Abstract) |
| 2/23 | Deirdre O'Brien Dept of Electrical Engineering, Stanford |
Cost-Sensitive Performance of Probability Estimation-Based Classifiers: Analysis and Practice (Abstract) |
| 3/2 | Susan Holmes Dept of Statistics, Stanford |
Code Breaking in Biology: Lessons from the Second World War (Abstract) |
| 3/9 | Yuanjia Wang Columbia University |
Non-parametric Estimation of Distribution Functions from Kin-Cohort Data (Abstract) |
| 3/16 | Adin-Cristian Andrei Department of Biostatistics University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Quality-of-life Adjusted Analyses of Successive Events (Abstract) |
| 3/17* Friday @ 1:30 pm |
Jay Bartroff Department of Statistics Stanford |
Efficient three-stage adaptive designs for clinical trials (Abstract) |
| 3/20* Monday @ 1:30 pm |
Mei-Chiung Shih Harvard University |
Flexible Modeling via a Hybrid Estimation Scheme in Generalized Mixed Models for Longitudinal Data (Abstract) |
| 3/22* Wednesday @1:30 pm Sequoia Hall 200 |
Marc Coram University of Chicago |
Three Tales of Computational Statistics: Proteomics, Ecology, Decryption (Abstract) |
Contact Robert Shields (650-723-5456 / ) to be on the e-mail list. Suggestions and self-nominations for seminar and topics are welcome.

