Seminars are usually held from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. with coffee and tea at 3:30 p.m. (Time changes are indicated with an asterisk)

Monday, 9/26, Snyder Auditorium
1994 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture
Michael Boehnke, Professor of Biostatistics, SPH, Univ. of Michigan
"Statistical Methods for Gene Mapping by Using Radiation Hybrids"

Monday, 10/3, Kresge, Room 213
Naisyin Wang, Dept. of Statistics, Texas A & M University and Dept. of Biostatistics, HSPH
"A Semiparametric Approach to Model the Skewed Heteroscedastic Regression Data"

Monday, 10/17, Kresge Room 213
Mei-Hsu Ling, Schering-Plough Institute
"Designs of Phase I Cancer Research Clinical Trials"

Monday, 10/24, Kresge Room 213
William Rogers, Tufts University
"Issues in Case Mix Control"

Monday, 10/31, Kresge Room 213
, University of Waterloo
"Mixture Models for Matched Pairs"

Monday, 11/7, Kresge Room 213
Giovanni Parmigiani, Duke University and DFCI
"Prediction by Fast Model Mixing"

Monday, 11/14, Kresge Room 213
Marie Davidian, HSPH
"Statistical Issues in Assay Development and Analysis"

Monday, 11/21, Kresge Room 213
David Giltinan, Genentech, Inc.
"Pharmacokinetics of IGF-1: A Case Study in Population Pharmacokinetic Modeling with Time-Dependent Covariates"

Monday, 12/5, Kresge Room 213
Nicholas Schork, Dept. of Statistics, University of Michigan
"Mapping Genes: An Overview of Modern Statistical Issues and Methods"

Wednesday, 12/7, Kresge Room G-1
Ross Prentice, Dept. of Biostatistics, University of Washington
"Estimating Equations for Hazard Ratio and Correlation Parameters in Multivariate Failure Time Analysis"

Monday, 1/30, Kresge Room G-1
Shili Lin, Dept. of Statistics, Univ. of California - Berkeley
"Monte Carlo Estimation of Likelihoods on Complex Genetic Data Sets"

Monday, 2/6, Kresge Room G-1
Chip Lawrence, Wadsworth Labs and NLM, NIH "Unseen Demons Shuffle Life's Most Basic Molecules: Statistics to the Rescue!!"

Monday, 2/27, Countway Auditorium
Chuanhai Liu, Dept. of Statistics, Harvard University
"Missing Data Imputation Using the Multivariate t Distribution"

Monday, 3/6, Kresge Room G-1
Joseph Ibrahim, Dept. of Biostatistics, HSPH and DFCI
"Bayesian Variable Selection for Generalized Linear Models"

Monday, 3/13, Kresge Room G-1
Ingram Olkin, Dept. of Statistics, Stanford University
"Meta-Analysis: Current Issues in Research Synthesis"

Wednesday, 3/15, Countway Auditorium
Kung-Yee Liang, Dept. of Biostatistics, SPH, John Hopkins Univ.
"Analysis of Case-Control/Family Sampling Design in Psychiatric Research"

Monday, 3/20, Kresge Room G-1
Qing Yao, Dept. of Biostatistics, HSPH
"Inferring the Order of Variables in Recursive Regression"

Friday, 4/21, Kresge Room G-1
Stuart Pocock, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
"The Hope and Hazards of Compliance Data in Clinical Trials"

Monday, 4/24, Kresge Room G-1
Ralph Kodell, National Center for Toxicological Research
"Fitting the Exact Hazard MVK Cancer Model to the ED01 Data Using SAS NLIN"

Monday, 5/1, Countway Auditorium
Steven Skates, MGH and DFCI
"Longitudinal Modeling of Anticoagulation Levels in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation"

Monday, 5/8, Kresge Room G-1
John Carlin, Royal Children's Hospital and Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
"A Bayesian Simulation Approach to Inference about Diagnostic Test Parameters"

Monday, 5/22, Kresge Room G-1
Norman Severo, Dept. of Statistics, SUNY at Buffalo
"Right-shift processes and some of their applications to Epidemics"