Date/ Location

Presentation Topic/ Presenters/ Abstract/ Reference

Friday 12-1:30, 

Sept. 23, 2005,

SPH W4013

Topic: "Truncation, Length Bias and Prevalent Sampling"

Presenter: Mei-Cheng Wang 

Friday 12:15-1:30,

Oct. 7, 2005,

SPH W4013

Topic: "Dealing with Measurement error in survival analysis"

Presenter: Ciprian Crainiceanu

1. Prentice (1982), Biometrika. Covariate Measurement Errors and parameter Estimation in  Failure Time Regression Model

2. Hu, Tsiatis and Davidian, (1998), Biometrics. Estimating the Parameters in the Cox Model when Covariate variables are Measured with Error

3. Huang and Wang (2000) JASA: Cox Regression with Accurate Covariates Unascertainable: A Nonparametric Correction Approach 

Friday 12:15-1:30,

Oct. 21, 2005,

SPH W4013

Topic: "Nonparametric estimation of the joint distribution of survival time and mark variable" 

Presenters: Xianghua Luo, Haitao Chu

1. Huang, Y. and Louis, T. (1998) Nonparametric estimation of the joint distribution of survival time and mark variables. Biometrika, 85, 4, 785-798.

2.Lin, D. Y., Sun, W. and Ying, Z. (1999) Nonparametric estimation of the gap time distributions for serial events with censored data. Biometrika, 86, 1, 59-70.

3. Stute, W. (1993) Consistent estimation under random censorship when covariables are present. Journal of multivariate analysis, 45, 89-109. (search the journal by yourself)

4. Dissertation. Quality-adjusted survival analysis, by Huang, Yijian, PhD, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, 1997, 114 pages (free download temporarily)

Friday 12:15-1:30,

Nov. 11, 2005,

SPH W4013

Topic: "Accelerated hazards model and its extensions"

Presenters: Jing Ning, Fan Li

1. Chen, YQ (2001) Accelerated Hazards Regression Model and Its Adequacy for Censored Survival Data. Biometrics 57 (3): 853-860

2. Chen, YQ and Wang, M-C (2000) Analysis of accelerated hazards models JASA 95 (450): 608-618

Friday 12:15-1:30,

Dec. 9, 2005,

SPH W4013

Topic: "Estimating a Treatment Effect from Multidimensional Longitudinal Data"

Presenters: Sheng Luo, Hongfei Guo

1. Sarah M. Gray and Ron Brookmeyer (1998) Estimating a Treatment Effect from Multidimensional Longitudinal Data. Biometrics 54 976-988.

2. Sarah M. Gray and Ron Brookmeyer (2000) Multidimensional Longitudinal Data: Estimating a Treatment Effect From Continuous, Discrete, or Time-to-Event Response Variables. JASA, 95, 396-406

Friday 12:15-1:30,

Jan. 27, 2006,

SPH W4013

Topic: "Analysis of multiple indicators using latent class regressions"

Presenters: Yi Huang, Brian Egleston

1. Huang GH, Bandeen-Roche K, Rubin GS (2002) Building marginal models for multiple ordinal measurements. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics) 51(1):37-57.  

2. Huang GH, Bandeen-Roche K (2004) Building an identifiable latent variable model with covariate effects on underlying and measured variables. Psychometrika 69(1):5-32.

3. Huang GH (2005) Selecting the number of classes under latent class regression: a factor analytic analogue. Psychometrika 70(2):325-345.  

4. Karen Bandeen-Roche; Diana L. Miglioretti; Scott L. Zeger; Paul J. Rathouz (1997). Latent Variable Regression for Multiple Discrete Outcomes. JASA, 92(440) , 1375-1386.

Friday 12:15-1:30,

Feb. 10, 2006,

SPH W4013

Topic: Surrogate endpoints in clinical trials: a Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach

Presenters: Weiwei Wang and Xianbin Li

1. Xu, Jane and Zeger, Scott L. (2001) The evaluation of multiple surrogate endpoints Biometrics, 57, 81-87

2. Xu, Jane and Zeger, Scott L. (2001) Joint analysis of longitudinal data comprising repeated measures and times to events Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C: Applied Statistics, 50, 375-387

Friday 1:30-3:00pm

Feb. 24, 2006

SPH E6519

Topic: Multi-path change point problems

Presenter: Dr. Masoud Asgharian , McGil University

Note: There are changes in time & room !

(3/21 -3/25 Spring break) 

Friday 12:15-1:30,

April 7, 2006

SPH 4013

Topic: Sensitivity Analysis in Action: Case Study of Informative Censoring in a Randomized Trial

Presenter: Dr. Daniel Scharfstein

1. Scharfstein DO and Robins JM: Estimation of the Failure Time Distribution in the Presence of Informative Right Censoring, Biometrika 89:617-635, 2002.

Friday 12:15-1:30,

April 21, 2006

SPH 4013

Topic: Latent Variables:  Truth, Lies, and Everything Between

Presenter: Dr. Karen Bandeen-Roche

Friday 12:15-1:30,

May 26, 2006

SPH 4013

Topic: Induced Informative Censoring Revisited: Applications to Analysis of Medical Cost and Quality Adjusted Lifetime

Presenters: Gary Chan and Kenny Shum

1. Bang H. and Tsiatis A. A. (2000) Estimating medical costs with censored data. Biometrika 87, 329-343. 

2. Lin, D. Y. (2000a). Linear regression of censored medical costs. Biostatistics 1, 35-47. 

3. Lin, D. Y., Etzioni R., Feuer E. J. and Wax Y. (1997). Estimating medical costs from incomplete follow-up data. Biometrics 53, 419-434. 

4. Zhao H. and Tsiatis, A. A. (1997). A consistent estimator for the distribution of quality adjusted survival time. Biometrika 84, 339-348.