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DEPARTMENT OF BIOSTATISTICS
JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
SEMINARS SCHEDULED
SEPTEMBER 2005 to MAY 2006 |
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(unless otherwise noted, all
seminars are at 4 PM in Room W2030 of the BSPH Bldg) |
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DATE |
TITLE |
SPEAKER |
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9/7/05 |
Grand Rounds
Saving Lives 5,000 at a Time: The Effectiveness of a Trauma System
(starts at 3:45 PM) |
Scientific Introduction:
Ellen
MacKenzie
Departments of Health Policy and Management and
Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Statistical Solution:
Daniel
Scharfstein
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Scientific Discussion:
Edward
Cornwell
Department of Surgery
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Statistical Discussion:
Ravi
Varadhan
Center on Aging and Health
Department of Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
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9/14/05 |
Genome Cafe Grand Opening
(in Becton Dickinson Lecture Hall, Room W1020) |
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9/21/05 |
Adjusting for Covariate Effects
in Biomarker Studies Using the Subject-Specific Threshold ROC Curve |
Holly
Janes
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
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9/28/05 |
Statistical Challenges in Paleontology |
Steve Wang
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Swarthmore College |
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10/5/05 |
Maximum Likelihood Estimation of
Haplotype Effects and Haplotype-Environment Interactions in Genetic Association
Studies |
Danyu
Lin
Department of Biostatistics
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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10/12/05 |
Grand Rounds
Characterizing Experimentally Induced Neural Processing: A Spatial Model for
Neuroimaging Data
(starts at 3:45 PM) |
Presentation:
DuBois Bowman
Department of Biostatistics
Emory University
Discussants:
Brian
Caffo
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Sarah
Reading
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine |
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10/19/05 |
Probe Sequence Based Approaches to Improve DNA Microarray Analysis |
Zoltan
Szallasi
Children's Hospital Informatics Program
Harvard Medical School |
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10/26/05 |
Matching with Multiple Control Groups and Adjusting for
Group Differences |
Elizabeth
Stuart
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. |
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11/2/05 |
Spatio-Temporal Point Processes,
Partial Likelihood, Foot-and-Mouth |
Peter
Diggle
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Lancaster University |
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11/9/05 |
Methods for Regularized Estimation
for Censored Data Regression, with Applications to Genomic Data |
Hongzhe Li
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine |
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12/7/05 |
Grand Rounds
Growth Mixture Modeling for
Randomized Trials--Challenges for Estimating Impacts for Groups Defined By Post
Randomization Events
(starts at 3:45 PM) |
Introduction and Overview of Research:
Ronna Cook
Associate Director, Human Services Group
Project Director, Head Start Impact Study
Westat
Stephen
Bell
Principal Scientist and Fellow
ABT Associates
Mike Puma
President
Chesapeake Research Associates
Discussants:
Constantine
Frangakis
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Nicholas
Ialongo
Department of Mental Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
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1/18/06 |
Estimating a Semi-Parametric
Duration Model without Specifying Heterogeneity |
Tiemen
Woutersen
Department of Economics
Johns Hopkins University |
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1/25/06 |
Protein Interaction Predictions
through Integrating High-Throughput Data from Diverse Organisms |
Hongyu Zhao
Department of Biostatistics
Yale School of Public Health |
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2/8/06 |
Criticality of FDR Control |
Zhiyi
Chi
Department of Statistics
University of Connecticut |
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2/14/06 |
Bayesian Methods in Haplotype
Inference and Disease Mapping
(NOTE: different day of the week; starts at 3:30 PM in Room W2015) |
Yu
Zhang
Department of Statistics
Harvard University |
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2/22/06 |
Analysis of Prevalent Cohort
Survival Data |
Masoud Asgharian
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
McGill University |
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2/24/06 |
Detecting Cis-Regulatory Modules and Motifs by Modeling Correlated Structures in
Genomic Sequences
(NOTE: different day of the week; starts at 12:30 PM in Room W2008) |
Qing
Zhou
Department of Statistics
Harvard University |
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3/15/06 |
Phenotypic Hierarchies from RNA Interference Data
(co-sponsored with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer at Johns
Hopkins) |
Florian
Markowetz
Department of Computational and Molecular Biology
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics |
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4/10/06 |
Spatial Bayesian Variable
Selection with Application to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(NOTE: different day of the week; Room W2008) |
Michael
Smith
Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics
University of Sydney
(Visiting Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) |
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4/19/06 |
(Data) Size Does Matter, But You
Might Be in for a Surprise... |
Xiao-Li
Meng
Department of Statistics
Harvard University |
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4/26/06 |
A Comparison of Methods for the
Dual-Endpoint Evaluation of Efficacy in a Landmark Proof-of-Concept HIV Vaccine
Trial |
Devan
Mehrotra
Clinical Biostatistics
Merck Research Laboratories |
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5/3/06 |
From Affymetrix Probe-Level
Analysis to Regularities among Individual Differences |
Mark
Reimers
Genomics and Bioinformatics Group
Center for Cancer Research
National Cancer Institute |
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5/10/06 |
Computational Modeling of
Microarrays |
Li
Zhang
Department of Biostatistics
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
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5/16/06 |
High-Dimensional Data: Prediction,
Variable Selection and Applications in Computational Biology
(NOTE: different day of the week; Room W2015) |
Peter
Buhlmann
Seminar for Statistics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
