DATE

TITLE

SPEAKER

9/11/97

The Roles of Biometricians in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Lianng Yuh
Director of Biometrics
Pfizer Central Research

l0/1/97

Multivariate Bayesian Variable Selection and Prediction

Marina Vannucci
Institute of Mathematics & Statistics
University of Kent at Canterbury, UK

10/15/97

Sensitivity Analysis in Observational Studies: Two Simple Examples

Paul Rosenbaum
Department of Statistics
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

10/22/97

Modeling the Probability of Carrying Mutations of Breast Cancer Susceptibility Genes BRCA1 and BRCA2.

Giovanni Parmigiani
Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences
Duke University

10/29/97

A New Statistical Test for Genetic Anticipation: How Hard Can It Be to Find a Difference Between Two Means?

Veronica J. Vieland
Dept. of Preventive Medicine & Psychiatry
University of Iowa

11/1/19/97

Challenges in Analysis of Radiologic Data: A Survey

Edward Herskovits
Division of Neuroradiology
Johns Hopkins University

12/17/97

Weighted Empirical Adaptive Variance Estimators for Correlated Data Regression

Thomas Lumley
Dept of Biostatistics
University of Washington

1/21/98

Cluster Analysis: A Medical Application and Related Statistical Problems

Catherine Sugar
Dept of Statistics
Stanford University

1/22/98

The Error Coding Method and Majority Vote Classifiers

Gareth James
Dept of Statistics
Stanford University

1/28/98

Mixtures of Marginal Models

Ori Rosen
Dept of Statistics
University of Pittsburgh

2/4/98

Statistics and Music: Fitting a Local Harmonic Model to Sound Signals

Rafael A. Irizarry
University of California

2/11/98

On Nonlinear Latent Variable Analysis

Melanie M. Wall
Div of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota

2/12/98

Current Issues in Causal Inference from Complex Longitudinal Data

James Robins
Harvard University

2/25/98

Evaluating the Age to Begin Periodic Breast Cancer Screening Using Data from a Few Regularly Scheduled Screens

Stuart Baker
National Cancer Institute

3/12/98

Atlas-Based Statistical Image Analysis in 2- and 3-Dimensional Images

Colin McCulloch
Institute of Statistics & Decision Sciences
Duke University

3/25/98

Nonresponse in Panel Data

Bob Moffitt
Johns Hopkins University

4/8/98

Model-Based Geostatistics

Peter Diggle
Lancaster University

4/15/98

Analyzing Repeated Measures Data Using Mixture Model for their Joint Distribution

Joe Hogan
Brown University

4/29/98

Is There a Life After the Proportional Hazards Model?

L.J. Wei
Harvard School of Public Health

5/1/98

Time Series Decompositions and Latent Factor Processes

Mike West
Duke University

5/13/98

Mapping Genes for Complex Human Diseases

Michael Boehnke
University of Michigan