Seminars - Spring 2008

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


Jan 22		 Per Kragh Andersen
Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen
(Joint seminar with the department of statistics & PI)

Title: Checking hazard regression models using pseudo-observations

*Location: the PI multipurpose room (click here for the directions)


Jan 31 		Brian Caffo
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University

Title: A Case Study in Pharmacologic Colon Imaging Using Principal Curves in Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography

Feb 7

Naitee Ting
Pfizer, Inc.

Title: Confirm and Explore: A Stepwise Approach to Clinical Study Designs
Feb 14 Boxin Tang
Departmentof Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University

Title: Orthogonal Arrays Robust to Nonnegligible Two-factor Interactions

Feb 21

Robert Weiss
Departmentof Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health
(A special seminar for the students)

Title: Get the Most Out of Graduate School: Preparing to be an Academic Biostatistician   (View Slides)
Feb 28
(Cancelled)		 Surajit Ray
Departmentof Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University

Title: Modal Inference and its application to High-Dimensional Clustering


Mar 6 Marianthi Markatou
Departmentof Biostatistics, Columbia University

Title: Distances in High dimensional problems

Mar 13 Chunming Zhang
Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title:Semiparametric Detection of Significant Activation for Brain fMRI


Mar 27 Jianhui Zhou
Department of Statistics, University of Virginia


Title: Dimension Reduction Based on Constrained Canonical Correlation and Variable Filtering

Apr 1
(Tuesday)		 Vijay Nair
Department of Statistics, University of Michigan

(This is Joint seminar with New York State Psychiatric Institute. )

Title: A Multistage Experimentation Framework for Behavioral Intervention Studies



Time: 3:30 - 4:30pm
Location: New PI 6th Floor Mulitpurpose Room (6602)(click here for the directions)
Apr 9*
(Wed, 1-2pm)		 Ian Ford
Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow

Title: The West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study: 20 Years and still going
Apr 10 Steve Portnoy
Department of Statistics, University of Illinois

Title: Fixed vs. Random Censoring: Is Ignorance Bliss?

Apr 17 Brad Carlin
Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota

Title: Analysis of Marked Point Patterns with Spatial and Nonspatial Covariate Information

Apr 24 Jun Liu
Department of Statistics, Harvard University

Title: Hunting for Interactions -- A Bayesian approach

May 1 Naisyin Wang
Department of Statistics, Texas A & M

Title: Modeling Considerations Reagarding Latent Longitudinal Covariates -- Measurement Error Prospectives

May 8 Jane-Ling Wang
Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis

Title: An Extended Hazard Model for the Joint Analysis of Longitudinal and Event-Time Data

May 15 Andrew Gelman
Department of Statistics, Columbia University

Title: Why we don't (usually) worry about multiple comparisons