Biostatistics Seminars 2012-13

The Biostatistics seminar series includes research-focused talks by division faculty and other guests. All seminars are free and open to faculty, students and staff.

See an archive of seminars and student presentations from 2005 to present.

When & Where Speaker Topic
May 1
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-690
Damla Senturk
Department of Biostatistics,
University of California, Los Angeles
Cardiovascular Event Risk Dynamics over Time in Older Patients on Dialysis: A Generalized Multiple-Index Varying Coefficient Model Approach 
April 24
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-690
Haibo Zhou
Department of Biostatistics.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Statistical Inference for Data from an Outcome Dependent Sampling Scheme with a Continuous Outcome 
April 17
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-690
David Dunson
Department of Statistical Science,
Duke University
Bayesian Learning of Conditional Distributions
March 27
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-690
Mingyao Li
Department of Biostatistics
University of Pennsylvania
Estimating Isoform-Specific Gene Expression in RNA-Seq
March 4
3:30 p.m.
Moos 5-125
Chiung-Yu Huang
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Recurrent Event Data Analysis Using Time-Varying Covariates with Application to the Impact of Streptococcus on Pharyngitis in Indian School Children
March 1
10 a.m.
Mayo 3-125
Michael Levine
Purdue University
Maximum Smoothed Likelihood for Multivariate Mixtures
Feb. 27
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-690
Shawn Treier
Department of Politics,
University of Virginia
Estimating the Dimensionality of Latent Structural Models
Jan. 30
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-690
Hui Jiang
Department of Biostatistics,
University of Michigan
Computationally Efficient Methods for Statistical Modeling of Alternative Splicing in RNA-Seq
Nov. 28
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-620
Abdus Wahed
Department of Biostatistics,
University of Pittsburgh
Covariate-Adjusted Comparison of Dynamic Treatment Regimes in Sequentially Randomized Clinical Trials
Nov. 7
3:30 p.m.
Mayo 3-125
Murali Haran
Department of Statistics,
Pennsylvania State University
Inference with Implicit Likelihoods and High-dimensional Data
Oct. 17
3:30 p.m.
Mayo 3-125
Yunwen Yang
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
Drexel University

Bayesian Empirical Likelihood for Quantile Regression

Sept. 26
3:30 p.m.
Moos 2-620
Natesh Pillai
Department of Statistics,
Harvard University
Efficiency of Bayesian Procedures and the Frequentist-Bayes Connection in Some High Dimensional Problems
Sept. 19
3:30 p.m.
Mayo D199
Jim Hodges
Division of Biostatistics,
University of Minnesota
Random Effects Old and New
Sept. 5
3:30 p.m.
Mayo 3-125
Chiung-Yu Huang
Biostatistics Research Branch,
National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases,
National Institutes of Health
Composite Partial Likelihood Estimation under Length-Biased Sampling, With Application to a Prevalent Cohort Study of Dementia
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