Archive of Seminars
2012 Seminars
December 12, 2012
Yu Cheng, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Non-parametric inference of cumulative incidence function for dynamic treatment regimens under two-stage randomization
November 28, 2012
Zhijin Wu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Division of Biology and Medicine
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
A new shrinkage estimator for the dispersion in RNA-seq data
November 14, 2012
Emily Beth Fox, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Capturing heteroscedasticity and long-range dependencies with Gaussian processes
October 31, 2012
Hui Jiang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Computationally efficient methods for statistical modeling of alternative splicing in RNA-seq
October 22, 2012
Ming-Hui Chen, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Statistics
Director of Statistical Consulting Services
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut
Bayesian design of non-inferiority clinical trials using historical data
October 17, 2012
Gareth James, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics
Marshall School of Business
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Functional response additive model estimation
October 10, 2012
Anindya Bhadra, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Purdue University
Lafayette, Indiana
Joint high-dimensional Bayesian variable and covariance selection with an application to eQTL analysis
September 26, 2012
Arnab Maity, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina
Hypothesis testing in functional regression models
September 19
Ziding Feng, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Community Medicine
University of Washington
Member, Cancer Prevention and Biostatistics, Public Health Sciences Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington
Finding biomarkers to reduce prostate cancer over-diagnosis and over-treatment
May 16, 2012
Athanasios Kottas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Baskin School of Engineering
University of California at Santa Cruz
Bayesian nonparametric inference for mean residual life functions in survival analysis
May 9, 2012
Ian L. Dryden, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Statistics
University of South Carolina
Columbia, South Carolina
Bayesian alignment of unlabeled marked point sets using random fields
April 25, 2012
Adrian Dobra, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Statistical methods for dynamic spatio/temporal networks
April 20, 2012
Vince D. Calhoun, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Director, Image Analysis and MR Research
The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Structural and functional networks in health and disease: Application of independent component analysis to neuroimaging data
April 18, 2012
Abdus S. Wahed, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Testing multiple adaptive treatment strategies in sequentially randomized clinical trials
March 28, 2012
Babak Shahbaba, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
University of California Irvine
Irvine, California
Bayesian gene set analysis
March 21, 2012
Ying Yuan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Bayesian optimal up-and-down design for phase I clinical trials
March 7, 2012
Naisyin Wang, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics & Biostatistics
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Parameter estimation for ordinary differential equations: An alternative view on penalties
February 29, 2012
John O'Quigley, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
and
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Paris, France
A fresh look at survival analysis
February 22, 2012
Mahlet Getachew Tadesse, Sc.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Yerby Visiting Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard University (2011-2012 academic year)
A stochastic partitioning method for associating high-dimensional data sets
February 17, 2012
Samuel Kou, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Statistics
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sequential Monte Carlo methods in protein folding
February 15, 2012
A. Jeffrey Goldsmith
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Biostatistics
Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Scalar-on-function and scalar-on-image regression
February 8, 2012
Alexia Iasonos, Ph.D.
Assistant Attending Biostatistician
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Bayesian analysis for large spatial data
February 7, 2012
Eric F. Lock
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Joint and individual variation explained (JIVE) for integrated analysis of multiple data types
February 2, 2012
Suprateek Kundu
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Biostatistics
Gillings School of Global Public Health
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Bayes variable selection in semiparametric linear models
February 1, 2012
Yuan Ji, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Division of Quantitative Sciences
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Why we should (REALLY) want to stop using the 3+3 design for phase I clinical trials
January 18, 2012
Thomas Michael Braun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
A generalized continual reassessment method for two-agent phase I trials
January 13, 2012
Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics
School of Public Health
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A multivariate spatial factor model for clustered data with informatively present mixed responses
2011 Seminars
December 8, 2011
Jincheol Park
Doctoral Candidate
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Bayesian analysis for large spatial data
December 7, 2011
Zhaohui Steve Qin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
Model-based methods for analyzing NGS data
November 16, 2011
Richard J. Chappell, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Delta what? Choice of outcome scale in non-inferiority trials
November 9, 2011
Xinyi Xu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Calibrated Bayes factors for model comparison
November 8, 2011
A. Jeffrey Goldsmith
Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Cross-sectional and longitudinal penalized functional regression
October 28, 2011
Dongseok Choi, PhD
Associate Professor, Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon
Detecting subclusters in outliers
October 19, 2011
Roger Klein, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Semiparametric selection models with binary outcomes
October 18, 2011
Rajarshi Guhaniyogi
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Some recent developments on Bayesian hierarchical low-rank spatial process models for large datasets
October 5, 2011
Clyde F. Martin, Ph.D.
P.W. Horn Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Dynamic clinical trials and control theory
September 21, 2011
Juhee Lee, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Local clustering: A second-generation clustering model
September 8, 2011
Roderick J.A. Little, Ph.D.
Richard D. Remington Professor of Biostatistics
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Bayes and multiple imputation for assay data subject to measurement error
June 29, 2011
Andrew W. Dowsey, Ph.D.
Independent Research Fellow
Imperial College London
London, England
A sparse signal restoration framework for simultaneous baseline estimation, deisotoping and charge state deconvolution of complex mass spectra
June 1, 2011
Guosheng Yin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
The University of Hong Kong
Two-stage dose finding for cytostatic agents in phase I clinical trials
May 11, 2011
Edoardo M. Airoldi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Analysis and design of RNA sequencing experiments
May 4, 2011
Maiying Kong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
Modeling and testing treated tumor growth using cubic smoothing splines
April 20, 2011
Masoud Asgharian, Ph.D.
Professor, The Department of Mathematics and Statistics
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Survival analysis and length-biased sampling
April 6, 2011
Jaeil Ahn, M.S.
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biostatistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Bayesian modeling of epidemiologic data under complex sampling schemes
March 16, 2011
Genevera I. Allen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Generalized least squares matrix decomposition
March 2, 2011
Wei Pan, Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota
When to ignore correlations: Applications to genetic association analysis
February 28, 2011
Chiranjit Mukherjee, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, Department of Statistical Science
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Spatially-varying SAR models and Bayesian inference for high-resolution lattice data
February 2, 2011
Ick Hoon Jin
Ph.D. Student, Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Use of SAMC for Bayesian analysis of statistical models with intractable normalizing constants
January 12, 2011
Francesco Claudio Stingo, Ph.D.
Post-Doc Instructor, Department of Statistics
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Incorporating biological information into linear models: A Bayesian approach to the selection of pathways and genes
2010 Seminars
November 22, 2010
Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Columbia University, New York, New York
The emperor of all maladies: A biography of cancer
November 17, 2010
Menggang Yu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Hoosier Oncology Group Director for Biostatistics
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
Re-randomization test for clinical trials using minimization for unequal allocation
November 3, 2010
Yuan Ji, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
MD Anderson Cancer Center
From intensity to counts: Statistical issues in next-generation sequencing data
November 1, 2010
Sanjay Shete, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Estimation of odds ratios of genetic variants for the secondary phenotypes associated with primary diseases: Association of CHRNA5-A3 genetic locus to smoking
July 30, 2010
Guosheng Yin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science
The University of Hong Kong
Fractional 3+3 design with late-onset toxicity in phase I clinical trials
July 7, 2010
Ana-Maria Staica, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Spatially correlated multilevel functional data
May 19, 2010
Debajyoti Sinha, Ph.D.
Hobbs Endowed Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Median regression in survival analysis via transform-both-sides model
May 12, 2010
Carlos M. Carvalho, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois
Time-varying predictive systems
April 14, 2010
Yuan Ji, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Bayesian models for genetic pathways
March 31, 2010
Subharup Guha, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Posterior simulation in countable mixture models for large datasets
March 30, 2010
Shouhao Zhou
Department of Statistics
Columbia University, New York, New York
A new Bayesian model selection criterion
March 26, 2010
Yong Chen, M.A.
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
Assessing genetic association in case-control studies with unmeasured population substructure
March 15, 2010
Michele Guindani, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
A Bayesian discovery procedure
March 12, 2010
Eugenia Buta
Department of Statistics
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Computational approaches for empirical Bayes methods and Bayesian sensitivity analysis
March 10, 2010
Bo Hu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
Nonparametric multistate analysis of survival and longitudinal data
March 10, 2010
Brian P. Hobbs, M.S.
Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Hierarchical power prior models for adaptive incorporation of historical information in clinical trials
February 26, 2010
Wook Yeon Hwang, M.S.
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Boosting methods for variable selection in high-dimensional sparse models
February 24, 2010
Peter X. Song, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Bayesian information model selection criteria in composite likelihood methodology with high-dimensional data
February 22, 2010
Anindya Bhadra, M.A.
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Iterated filtering and its application in modeling infectious disease dynamics
February 10, 2010
Sangbum Choi
Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Semiparametric transformation models based on degradation processes
February 1, 2010
Yoonsuh Jung, M.S.
Department of Statistics
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Robust LASSO and efficient quantile regression through regularization of case-specific parameters
January 13, 2010
Seungbong Han, M.S.
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
University of Wisconsin - Madison
A novel semiparametric method for modeling interval-censored data
2009 Seminars
December 2, 2009
Chia-Cheng Chen, Ph.D.
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Comparison of intraclass correlation coefficient and concordance correlation coefficient in assessing agreement
October 23, 2009
Simon Lunagomez, Ph.D.
Department of Statistical Science
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Geometric representations of hypergraphs for prior specification and posterior sampling
September 2, 2009
Carl Matthew DiCasoli
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Bayesian regression methods for crossing survival curves
May 13, 2009
John Patrick Ferguson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Bayesian alternatives to P-values and their use in selecting and ranking populations
April 15, 2009
Joseph Gardiner, Ph.D.
Director, Division of Biostatistics
Professor of Epidemiology and Statistics
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Stochastic models in cost-effectiveness analysis
April 1, 2009
Elena Elkin, Ph.D.
Assistant Attending Outcomes Research Scientist
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
Geographic access and the use of screening mammography
March 19, 2009
Geert Molenberghs, Ph.D. and Geert Verbeke, Ph.D.
Professors, Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics
Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
On the identifiability of the random-effects distribution in mixed models
March 11, 2009
Satoshi Morita, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan
A Bayesian hierarchical mixture model for platelet-derived growth factor receptor phosphorylation to improve estimation of progression-free survival in prostate cancer
March 4, 2009
Murali Haran, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Division of Statistics
The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania
Toward automating MCMC algorithms for spatial generalized linear models
Updated January 25, 2013