Workshop in Biostatistics
Center for Clinical Sciences Research (CCSR)
4th Floor, Rm 4205 (The side with Deli)
1:15 pm - 3:00 pm
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk |
|---|---|---|
| 1/13 | Robert Proctor
Professor of History History Department, Stanford |
Big Tobacco and Statistics (Abstract and Suggested Readings) |
| 1/20 | Gareth James
Professor of Statistics Marshall School of Business Univ of Southern California |
Variable selection using Adaptive Non-linear Interaction Structures in High dimensions (Abstract and Suggested Readings) |
| 1/27 | Jing Cheng
UCSF School of Dentistry |
Causal Inference in Health Studies (Abstract and Suggested Readings) |
| 2/3 | Eran Halperin
Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv Univ, and the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley |
Deciphering the Genetic Components of Human Diseases (Abstract and Suggested Readings) |
| 2/10 | Bob Dougherty
Research Director Stanford Center for Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging |
Inferring Brain Tissue Properties from Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data (Abstract and Suggested Readings) |
| 2/17 | No Workshop today
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| 2/24 | Eric Xing
Associate Professor School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University |
On High-Dimensional Sparse Structured Input-Output Models, with Applications
to Genome-Phenome Association Analysis of Complex Diseases (Abstract and Suggested Readings) |
| 3/3 | Li Ma
PhD candidate, Statistics Dept |
Coupling Optional Polya Trees--a Bayesian Nonparametric Approach to Case-control Studies (Abstract and Suggested Readings) |
| 3/10 | Gill Bejerano
Assistant Professor Developmental Biology and Computer Science |
Understanding The Cis-regulatory Landscape of the Human Genome
(Abstract and Suggested Readings) |
Contact Bonnie Chung (650-723-5301; ) to be on the e-mail list. Suggestions and self-nominations for seminar and topics are welcome.

