HSPH Department of Biostatistics
Colloquium Series
1999 - 2000
UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED:
Thursdays, 4 pm to 5 pm
Refreshments served a half-hour before
September 23
Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture
Dr. Giovanni Parmigiani
Associate Professor, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences
Duke University
Breast Cancer Genes: Modeling and Medical Care
September 30
Kresge Building, Room G2
Dr. Heping Zhang
Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Yale University School of Medicine
A Frailty Model of Segregation Analysis and Its Applications
October 7
Kresge Building, Room G2
Michael O'Connell
President, Waratah Corporation, Raleigh, North Carolina
Spatial Regression Models, Response Surface and Process Optimization
October 22
Friday, 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Kresge 212
Peter Bickel, Ph.D.
Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Recognition of Highly Conserved Patterns in Protein Sequences
October 28
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Kresge 212
Jeff Wu, Ph.D.
H. C. Carver Collegiate Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
Challenges and Statistical Methods for Nonclinical Biopharmaceutical Research
November 4
Kresge G-2
Jack Lee
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
On Analyzing Dependent Data
December 9
Kresge G-2
Lance Waller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Emory University
Conditional and Intrinsic Autoregressions: The Nuts and Bolts of Hierarchical Models for Disease Mapping
December 16
Kresge G-2
Eric Kolaczyk, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University
Estimation in Poisson Inverse Problems via a Bayesian Multiscale Framework
January 13
Kresge G-2
Michael Escobar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences / Department of Statistics
Visiting Scholar, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
Analysis of Densities
February 10
12:30 - 1:30 pm
HSPH2, Room 426
Jane Olson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology, Case Western Reserve University
Multivariate Linkage Analysis: Application to SLE-related Traits
February 10
HSPH2, Room 426
Professor Wing Hung Wong
Departments of Statistics and Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles
Analysis of Oligonucleotide Expression Arrays
February 17
3:00 - 4:00 pm
HSPH2, Room 426
Arlene Ash
Research Associate Professor, Department of Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology, Boston University
How Well Do Models Work?
March 9
FXB G-12
Glen Satten
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Cross-Sectional Measurement of HIV Incidence by Detection of Early HIV Infection Using a Serologic Testing Algorithm for Recent HIV Seroconversion (STARHS)
March 16
FXB G-12
Jose Pinheiro
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Efficient Algorithms for Robust Estimation in Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using the Multivariate t-Distribution
April 13
FXB G-12
Peter Thall
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Approximate Bayesian Evaluation of Multiple Treatment Effects
April 20
FXB G-2
Drs. Mak Carmen, Joann Harvey, and Samuel Heft
Schering-Plough Research Institute
Can Data Mining Methods Be Used to Explore Data Collected in Clinical Trials?
May 18
FXB G-12
Lyle J. Palmer, Ph.D.
Fulbright Fellow and Churchill Fellow
Channing Laboratory
and
Head, Genetic Epidemiology Unit
TVW Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
Perth, Australia
Gibbs Sampling and the Genetic Epidemiology of Complex Disease
May 24
HSPH2, Room 426
Peter Brunwald
EURANDOM
The Netherlands
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