Survival, Longitudinal And Multivariate Data Working Group (SLAM)

 Department of Biostatistics

 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health


General Goal: The purpose of this working group is to generate discussion for up-to-date research in Survival, Longitudinal And Multivariate data analysis. Discussion topics of the working group meetings include i)  Biostatistics faculty research papers, ii) interesting research articles in related fields, and iii) selected internal and external Biostatistics PhD dissertations.

Meeting Schedules:

Date/ Location

Presentation Topic/ Presenters/ Abstract/ Reference

Friday 12-1:30, 

Sept. 22, 2006,

SPH W4019

Topic: Change-point Models in Action: Modeling longitudinal CD4 and HIV RNA trajectories.

Presenter: Haitao Chu

 

1. Chu, Gange, Yamashita, Hoover, Chmiel, Margolick and Jacobson (2005). Individual variation of CD4 T-Cell Trajectory among HIV-infected Men and Women on Long Term Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy: An Application Using a Bayesian Random Change-Point Model.. American Journal of Epidemiology 2005; 62 (8): 787-797. 

2. Berk and Lachenbruch (2002). Repeated measurements with zeros. Statistical Methods in Medical Research 11: 303-316. 

3. Kiuchi, Hartigan, Holford, Rubinstein and Stevens (1995). Change Points in the Series of T4 Counts Prior to AIDS.. Biometrics 51: 236-248. 

4. Lange, Carlin and Gelfand (1992). Hierarchical Bayes Models for the Progression of HIV Infection Using Longitudinal CD4 T-Cell Numbers . JASA 87: 615-626.

Thursday 12:00-1:30,

Sept. 28, 2006,

SPH W2300

SLAM Faculty Meeting

Friday 12:15-1:30,

Oct. 6, 2006,

SPH W4019

Topic: Analysis of Smoking Cessation Patterns Using a Stochastic Mixed Effects Model with a Latent Cured State.

Presenter: Sheng Luo and Ciprian Crainiceanu

1. Maller and Zhou (1992). Estimating the Proportion of Immunes in a Censored Sample.. Biometrika 79: 731-739. 

2. Ng and Cook (1997). Modeling Two-state Disease Processes with Random Effects.. Lifetime Data Analysis 3:315-335

Friday 12:15-1:30,

Oct. 20, 2006,

SPH W4019

Topic: Nonparametric likelihood and further developement of inverse weighting and
G-estimation for marginal and nested structural models.

Presenter: Zhiqiang Tan

Friday 12:15-1:30,

Nov. 17, 2006,

SPH W4019

Topic: Estimating Causal Treatment Effect on Mark Variable with Complication of Failure Time Censoring.

Presenter: Jing Ning and Mei-Cheng Wang

Friday 12:15-1:30,

Dec. 1, 2006,

SPH W4019

Topic: Haplotype Methods for Longitudinal Data Analysis.

Presenter: Kelly Benke and Qing Li

Friday 12:15-1:30,

Feb. 2, 2007,

SPH W4019

Topic:Seamlessly Expanding a Randomized Phase II Trial to Phase III.

Presenter: Jay Herson

 

1. Inoue, Thall and Berry (2002). Seemlessly Expanding a Randomized Phase II Trial to Phase III. Biometrics 2002; 58 (4): 823-831. 

Friday 12:15-1:30,

Apr. 27, 2007,

SPH W4019

Joint meeting with BioSignals

Topic: FDA 2.0: A Functional Approach to the Geometry of Sleep.

Presenter: Chongzhi Di and Ciprian Crainiceanu

Friday 12:15-1:30,

May 25, 2007,

SPH W4019

Topic: Average Causal Effect Estimation Allowing Covariate Measurement Error: A Finite Mixture Modeling Framework.

Presenter: Yi Huang

Friday 12:15-1:30,

Sept, 2007

SPH W4019

Important: Date Change

Presenter: Jeanne Kowalski

SLAM presentations in academic year 2005-2006

Group Members:

Student/Post-doc: Yu-Jen Cheng ycheng3@jhsph.edu;Yong Chen yonchen@jhsph.edu; Sheng T. Luo sluo@jhsph.edu; Zhang, Lei lezhang@jhsph.edu; Kwun Chuen Chan kcchan@jhsph.edu; Weiwei Wang wewang@jhsph.edu; Qing Li qli@jhsph.edu; Jing Ning jning@jhsph.eda;  Marco Carone mcarone@jhsph.edu; Chongzhi Di cdi@jhsph.edu;  Hong Zhu hongzhu@jhsph.edu;  Chi Wang hongzhu@jhsph.edu

Faculty: Kung-Yee Liang kyliang@jhsph.edu; Yi Huang yihuang@umbc.edu; Jeanne Kowalski jkowals1@jhmi.edu; Elizabeth Stuart estuart@jhsph.edu; Haitao Chu hchu@jhsph.edu; Jay Herson mailto:%20jay.herson@earthlink.net; Dan Scharfstein dscharf@jhsph.edu; Karen Bandeen-Roche kbandeen@jhsph.edu; Zhiqiang Tan ztan@jhsph.edu; Ciprian Crainiceanu ccrainic@jhsph.edu; Mei-Cheng Wang mcwang@jhsph.edu; Constantine Frangakis cfrangak@jhsph.edu

Group Leader : Mei-Cheng Wang


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Last edited: 16 April, 2007