HSPH Department of Biostatistics
1998 - 1999
UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED:
Thursdays, 4 pm to 5 pm
FXB Building, Room G12
Refreshments served a half-hour before
September 24
Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture
Professor Kathryn Roeder
Department of Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University
Intelligence and Success: Is It All in the Genes?
October 22
Dr. Doug Nychka
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Boulder, CO
Spatial statistics, hierarchical models, and massive datasets
December 10
Dr. Gary King
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Models for Ecological Inference
January 14
Dr. Robert Gentleman (visiting HSPH)
University of Auckland, New Zealand
HOST: Dave Harrington
Computational Algorithms for Censored Data Problems Using Intersection Graphs
January 25 - 29 (Short Course)
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Nicholas J. Schork, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Case Western Reserve University
Adjunct Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Harvard School of Public Health
Variance Component Models in Genetic Epidemiology
February 25
Robert Tibshirani
Department of Statistics
Stanford University
HOST: Sharon-Lise Normand
The Global Pairwide Approach to Radiation Hybrid Mapping
April 29
Richard Mayeux
Columbia University
HOST: Lee-Jen Wei
CANCELLED
May 20
Robert Kass
Department of Statistics
Carnegie-Mellon University
HOST: Joe Ibrahim
Estimation of Random-Effects Covariance Matrices
July 29
Building II, Room 426
John O'Quigley
Department of Mathematics
University of California, San Diego
Explained Variation in Proportional Hazards Models
August 16
Building II, Room 426
Dr. Antonietta Mira
University of Pavia
University of Insumbria, Varese, Italy
Ordering Slicing and Splitting Monte Carlo Markov Chains