seminarfall2007

Seminars - Fall 2007 Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University Seminars are on Thursdays Time:4:00 - 5:00 pm Location: Judith Jansen Conference Room, 722 west 168th Street, 4th Floor, Rm 425 (google map \| campus map) Note: Refreshments will be served on 3:30pm at the conference room on the 6th Floor, Rm 627
Sept 6	Naihua Duan Departments of Biostatistics, Columbia University Title: Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects, n-of-1 Trials, and Evidence Farming *Location: the conference room on the 6th Floor, Rm 627
Sept 20	Xihong Lin Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University Title: Statistical inference in Regularized Regression for Variable Selection
Oct 4	Francesca Dominici Department of Biostatistics Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Title: how risky is breathing? Staistical Methods in Air Pollution Risk Estimation
Oct 11	Yi Tsong CDER, Food and Drug Administration Title: Statistical issues in thorough QT clinical studies (view slides)
Oct 18	Rick Chappell Departments of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics & Statistics University of Wisconsin at Madison Title: The Noninferiority Trial: a Horse of a Different Color (view slides)
Oct 25	Andrew B. Nobel Departments of Statistics & computer science University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Title: Finding Significant Large-Average Submatrices in High Dimensional Data
Nov 1	Sharon Xiangwen Xie Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Title: Evaluating the Accuracy of a Diagnostic Test via an Internal Reliability Sample: with Applications to Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Nov8	Heping Zhang School of Public Health, Yale University Title: Mixed Effects Multvariate Adaptive Splines Model for the Analysis of Longitudinal and Growth Curve Data(MASAL) (view slides)
Nov. 15	Feifang Hu Department of Statistics, University of Virginia Title: Response-Adaptive Randomization in Clinical Trials (view slides)
Nov. 29	Raymond J. Carroll Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University Title: Measurement Error in Complex Semiparametric Settings: deconvulution, SIMEX, projection and the Nevada Test Site Thyroid Disease Study Location: Humphreys Auditorium
Dec. 6	Jianqing Fan Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering Princeton University Title: Sure Independence Screening for Ultra-High Dimensional Feature Space Location: Humphreys Auditorium
Dec. 10	Keith Worsley Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill Univeristy, Canada Title: Detecting Sparse Connectivity: MS Lesions, Cortical Thickness, and the 'Bubbles' Task in an fMRI Experiment NOTE: this is the joint seminar with the Department of Statistics. Location: Room 903, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue (Department of Statistics) Time: 12:00 to 1:30pm (Monday)
Dec. 13	Annie Qu Department of Statistics, Oregon State University Title: Efficient Aggregate Unbiased Estimating Functions Approach for Correlated Data with Missing at Random