American Statistical Association New York City Metropolitan Area Chapter Other Metro Area Events 2010

Upcoming Events 2010 (Chronological Order)

• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar Series
  Date: March 9, 2010
  Guest Speakers: Madelyn S. Gould, Ph.D., M.Ph. and Marjorie Kleinman, M.S.
  Topic: SUDDEN DEATH AND USE OF STIMULANT MEDICATIONS IN YOUTH
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: DATA MONITORING IN PRACTICE: MAKING YOUR DATA MONITORING COMMITTEE EFFECTIVE
  Date: March 10, 2010
  Presenters: Janet Wittes & Matt Downs (Statistics Collaborative, Inc., Washington DC)
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 11, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Lan Kong, Ph.D.
  Topic: QUANTILE REGRESSION FOR LONGITUDINAL DATA WITH LEFT CENSORING AND INFORMATIVE DROP-OUTS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 12, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Jason Fine
  Topic: SENSITIVITY TESTING FOR NONIDENTIFIABLE MODELS, WITH APPLICATION TO LONGITUDINAL DATA WITH NONINFORMATIVE DROPOUT
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 17, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Zhigang Zhang
  Topic: TBA
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 25, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Jung-Ying Tzeng, Ph.D.
  Topic: TBA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 31, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Glenn Heller
  Topic: TBA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 7, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Camelia Sima
  Topic: TBA
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 8, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Joseph Gardiner, Ph.D.
  Topic: TBA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 14, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Mithat Gönen
  Topic: TBA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 21, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Chaya Moskowitz
  Topic: TBA
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 22, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Ana-Maria Staicu, Ph.D.
  Topic: TBA
  
  
• UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL ISSUES IN CLINICAL TRIALS: FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE TO COMMUNITY
  University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  Philadelphia, PA
  Date: April 27, 2010
  Topic: Statistical Issues in Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 28, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Li Hsu
  Topic: TBA
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NONLINEAR MIXED EFFECTS MODEL AND PHARMACOKINETIC/PHARMACODYNAMIC ANALYSIS
  Date: April 29, 2010
  Presenter: Marie Davidian (North Carolina State University)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 5, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Ronglai Shen
  Topic: TBA
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: May 6, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Chaya S. Moskowitz, Ph.D.
  Topic: TBA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 12, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Adin-Cristian Andrei
  Topic: TBA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 19, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Li-Xuan Qin
  Topic: TBA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 26, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Marinela Capanu
  Topic: TBA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: June 2, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Jim Booth
  Topic: TBA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: June 9, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Sujata Patil
  Topic: TBA
  
  
• 2010 FDA/INDUSTRY STATISTICS WORKSHOP
  Grand Hyatt Washington
  Washington, D.C.
  Dates: September 20 - 22, 2010
  
  

Past Events 2010 (Reverse Chronological Order)

• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: March 5, 2010 - [Note: This talk was rescheduled from February 26, 2010 due to the snow storm and NYC school closures.]
  Guest Speaker: Makram Talih
  Topic: A SYMMETRIC, ENTROPY-BASED, RELATIVE AND QUASI-ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF HEALTH DISPARITIES: AN EXAMPLE USING DENTAL CARIES IN U.S. CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 3, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Yuelin Li
  Topic: Book Discussion
  
  
• EIGHTH ANNUAL ASA CONNECTICUT CHAPTER MINI-CONFERENCE
  University of Connecticut
  Storrs, CT
  Date: March 2, 2010
  Topic: The Analysis of Incomplete Data – From Past to Future
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: February 26, 2010 - Due to the snow storm and NYC school closures this talk is postponed until March 5, 2010.
  Guest Speaker: Makram Talih
  Topic: A SYMMETRIC, ENTROPY-BASED, RELATIVE AND QUASI-ABSOLUTE MEASURE OF HEALTH DISPARITIES: AN EXAMPLE USING DENTAL CARIES IN U.S. CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: February 25, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Andrea S. Foulkes, Sc.D.
  Topic: MIXTURE MODELING FOR EXPLORING MULTI-LOCUS GENOTYPE-TRAIT ASSOCIATIONS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 24, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Andrew Vickers
  Topic: A SIMPLE DECISION ANALYTIC SOLUTION TO THE COMPARISON OF TWO BINARY DIAGNOSTIC TESTS
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar Series
  Date: February 23, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Patrick Carmack, Ph.D.
  Topic: SPATIAL MODELING AND fMRI
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: February 19, 2020
  Guest Speaker: Jay Verkuilen
  Topic: STATISTICAL THEORY OF THE LIST EXPERIMENT/ITEM COUNT TECHNIQUE TO MEASURE SOCIALLY SENSITIVE ATTITUDES
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: NON-PARAMETRIC DOSE RESPONSE MODELS IN BAYESIAN ADAPTIVE DESIGNS
  Date: February 18, 2010
  Presenter: Andrew P. Grieve (School of Medicine, King's College)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 17, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Sijian Wang
  Topic: HIERARCHICALLY PENALIZED COX REGRESSION WITH GROUPED VARIABLES
  
  
• Statistical Graphics Section and the Committee on Outreach Education of the American Statistical Association
  Web-Based Training: HOW TO AVOID SOME COMMON GRAPHICAL MISTAKES
  Date: February 11, 2010
  Presenter: Naomi B. Robbins (NBR Consulting)
  
  
• FIFTH STATISTICS IN SOCIETY LECTURE BY THE CENTER FOR THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INVOLVING INNOVATIVE STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY (PRIISM)
  New York University
  Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
  New York, New York
  Date: February 11, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Mark S. Handcock
  Topic: Statistical Methods for Combining Survey and Population-level Data
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: February 11, 2010 -- Cancelled and rescheduled to February 25, 2010
  Note: Due to the snow storm the speaker was unable to travel to New York from Massachusetts.
  Guest Speaker: Andrea S. Foulkes, Sc.D.
  Topic: MIXTURE MODELING FOR EXPLORING MULTI-LOCUS GENOTYPE-TRAIT ASSOCIATIONS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 10, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Ian McKeague
  Topic: FRACTALS WITH POINT IMPACT IN FUNCTIONAL REGRESSION: AN APPLICATION TO GENE EXPRESSION DATA
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar Series
  Date: February 9, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Jonathan W. Stewart, M.D.
  Topic: HETEROGENEITY: THE HOBGOBLIN OF PREDICTING TREATMENT RESPONSE CAN OUTCOME BE HOMOGENIZED?
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 3, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Colin Begg
  Topic: A NEW STRATEGY FOR IDENTIFYING TUMOR SUB-CLASSIFICATIONS BASED ON ETIOLOGIC RELEVANCE
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: January 28, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Noah A. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
  Topic: WORLDWIDE PATTERNS OF HUMAN GENETIC VARIATION AND THEIR EFFECTS ON GENOTYPE IMPUTATION IN ASSOCIATION STUDIES
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 27, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Irina Ostrovnaya
  Topic: TESTING CLONALITY OF THREE AND MORE TUMORS USING THEIR LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY PROFILES
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar Series
  Date: January 26, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Sue M. Marcus, Ph.D.
  Topic: A SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR SUBVERTING RANDOMIZATION IN CONTROLLED TRIALS
  
  
• 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HEALTH POLICY STATISTICS
  The Fairmont Washington D.C.
  Washington, D.C.
  Dates: January 22 - 23, 2010
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: January 21, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Harrison Zhou, Ph.D.
  Topic: FUNCTIONAL GENERALIZED LINEAR REGRESSION
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 20, 2010
  Guest Speaker: John Quackenbush
  Topic: NETWORK AND STATE SPACE MODELS: SCIENCE AND SCIENCE FICTION APPROACHES TO CELL FATE PREDICTIONS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 13, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Sanjay Shete
  Topic: EFFICIENT APPROACHES FOR IDENTIFYING GENES IN CASE-CONTROL ASSOCIATION STUDIES
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 12, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Margaret Wrensch, PhD UCSF
  Topic: EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ADULT GLIOMA: GLIOMA GENOME WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES (GWAS) EXPAND RESEARCH HORIZONS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 6, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Jaya Satagopan
  Topic: PROPERTIES OF PRELIMINARY TEST ESTIMATORS AND SHRINKAGE ESTIMATORS FOR EVALUATING MULTIPLE RISK FACTORS IN CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY STUDIES