Journal Club

Date Presenter Article Pizza

Sept. 4 Jennifer Feder Statistical research: Some advice for beginners [.pdf] yes

Slides [.pdf] Hamada and Sitter

American Statistician (2004) vol. 58 (2) pp. 93-101

Discussion (Rubin, Gelfand) [.pdf]

Sept. 18 Bruce Swihart The Abuse of Power [.pdf] yes

Slides [.pdf] Hoenig and Heisey

The American Statistician (2001)

and

Some practical guidelines for effective sample size

determination [.pdf]

Lenth

The American Statistician (2001)

Oct. 2 Jenna Krall Regression to the mean: what it is and how to deal yes

with it [.pdf]

Barnett et al.

International Journal of Epidemiology (2005) vol. 34

and

Do baseball players regress toward the mean? [.pdf]

Schall and Smith

American Statistician (2000) pp. 231-235

Oct. 16 Jessie Myers Propensity score methods for bias reduction in the yes

comparison of a treatment to a non-randomized

control group.

D'Agostino Jr.

Statistics in Medicine (1998) vol. 17 (19) [.pdf]

and

The central role of the propensity score in observational

studies for causal effects.

Rosenbaum and Rubin.

Biometrika (1983) vol. 70 (1) pp. 41-55 [.pdf]

Oct. 30 Nick Reich When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an yes

handout [.pdf] Outbreak of Zombie Infection [.pdf]

Munz, et. al.

Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress (2009)

Nov. 13 Matt McCall Frozen Robust Multi-Array Analysis (fRMA) [.pdf] yes

McCall, et al.

Johns Hopkins University (2009)

Dec. 11 Nathan James

Winter break

Jan. 29 Haley Hedlin

Feb. 12 Simina Boca The case for objective Bayesian analysis [.pdf]

Berger

Bayesian Analysis (2006) vol. 1 (3) pp. 385-402

Feb. 26 Hilary Parker

Mar. 12 Vivienne Thairu

Apr. 2 Vidya Venugopal

Apr. 16 Jeff Goldsmith

Apr. 30 Marco Carone

May 14 George Wu

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2008-2009

Meetings every other Friday, 12-1 pm, room W4019