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Exams and Defenses, September 12, 2008

Roman Torgovitsky, doctoral student in the Department of Biostatistics, will present a dissertation, “Resampling Methods for High-Dimensional Data and Nonparametric Regression with Applications to Brain Imaging, Bioinformatics, and Sleep / Circadian Medicine,” on Tuesday, September 16, 2008, Building 2, Room 426, 1:00 PM. The chair will be Victor DeGruttola.

Melissa Graham Naylor, doctoral student in the Department of Biostatistics, will present a dissertation, “Novel Multivariate and Bayesian Approaches to Genetic Association Testing and Integrated Genomics,” on Monday, September 22, 2008, 2:00 PM. The chair will be Christoph Lange.

Jing Jenny Zhang, doctoral student in the Department of Biostatistics, will present a dissertation, “Novel Methodologies for the Analysis of Complex Failure Time Data and Alternative Progression-Free Survival Estimators” on Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 10:00 AM. The chair will be Molin Wang.