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

Upcoming Events 2010 (Chronological Order)

• New York University Child Study Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 2, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Armin Schwartzman
  Topic: EMPIRICAL NULL AND FALSE DISCOVERY RATE ANALYSIS IN NEUROIMAGING
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 8, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Sharon Xiangwen Xie
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 15, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Zhigang Zhang
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• 2010 FDA/INDUSTRY STATISTICS WORKSHOP
  Grand Hyatt Washington
  Washington, D.C.
  Dates: September 20 - 22, 2010
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 22, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Jaya Satagopan
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: September 23, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Donglin Zeng, Ph.D.
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 29, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Nicholas Jewell
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 6, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Ann Zauber
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: October 7, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Philippe Barbe, Ph.D.
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 13, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Howard Thaler
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 20, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Peter Gilbert
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: October 21, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Nilanjan Chatterjee, Ph.D.
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 27, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Ewout Steyerberg
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 3, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Katherine Panageas
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: November 4, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Janice Derr, Ph.D.
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Joint Biostatistics/Statistics Seminar
  Date: November 8, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Susan A. Murphy, Ph.D.
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL BIOPHARMACEUTICAL APPLIED STATISTICS SYMPOSIUM (BASS XVII)
  Hilton Oceanfront Resort
  Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
  Dates: November 8 - 12, 2010
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 10, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Mithat Gönen
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: November 11, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Ciprian Crainiceanu, Ph.D.
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 17, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Venkatraman Seshan
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: December 1, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Camelia Sima
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• THE 66th DEMING CONFERENCE ON APPLIED STATISTICS
  Tropicana Casino and Resort
  Atlantic City, New Jersey
  Dates: December 6 - 10, 2010
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: December 8, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Chaya Moskowitz
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: December 9, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Glen A. Satten, Ph.D.
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: December 15, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Alexia Iasonos
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: December 16, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Hector Corrada Bravo, Ph.D.
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  

Past Events 2010 (Reverse Chronological Order)

• JSM 2010
  Statistics: A Key to Innovation in a Data-Centric World
  Vancouver Convention Centre
  Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  Dates: July 31 - August 5, 2010
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Special Seminar
  Date: July 8, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Weichuan Yu, Ph.D.
  Topic: DETECTING GENE-GENE INTERACTIONS IN GENOME-WIDE CASE-CONTROL STUDIES
  
  
• COLUMBIA-OXFORD RISK SUMMIT 2010
  Columbia University
  New York, NY
  Dates: June 28 - 29, 2010
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: A PREDICTIVE APPROACH TO PROCESS OPTIMIZATION WITH APPLICATIONS TO PHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT AND MANUFACTURING
  Date: June 23, 2010
  Presenter: John Peterson (GlaxoSmithKline)
  
  
• Center for Applied Probability (CAP) at Columbia University
  Columbia University
  New York, NY
  Date: June 19, 2010
  Topic: 17th ANNUAL APPLIED PROBABILITY DAY (APD)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: June 9, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Sujata Patil
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: June 2, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Jim Booth
  Topic: SIMPLE MODELING STRATEGIES FOR BIOINFORMATIC DATA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 26, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Marinela Capanu
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF SHORT-TERM STUDIES IN REGULATORY TOXICOLOGY USING R
  Date: May 20, 2010
  Presenter: Ludwig A. Hothorn (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: May 20, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Joseph C. Gardiner, Ph.D.
  Topic: REGRESSION MODELS IN COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 19, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Li-Xuan Qin
  Topic: AN EMPIRICAL EVALUATION OF ARRAY NORMALIZATION FOR MicroRNA ARRAYS
  
  
• THIRD STERN-WHARTON STATISTICS CONFERENCE
  New York University
  New York, New York
  Date: May 14, 2010
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 12, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Adin-Cristian Andrei
  Topic: A NOVEL GAP TIME MODELING APPROACH BASED ON PSEUDO-OBSERVATIONS
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: May 7, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Jianhui Zhou
  Topic: MODEL SELECTION OF CORRELATION STRUCTURE FOR CLUSTERED DATA
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: May 6, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Chaya S. Moskowitz, Ph.D.
  Topic: EVALUATING THE NUMBER OF LESIONS TO MEASURE WHEN ASSESSING TUMOR RESPONSE
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: May 5, 2010
  Guest Speaker: H.M. James Hung, Ph.D.
  Topic: ADAPTIVE DESIGNS IN REGULATORY APPLICATIONS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 5, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Ronglai Shen
  Topic: STATISTICAL LEARNING IN INTEGRATIVE GENOMICS
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar Series
  Date: May 4, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Christopher Hans, Ph.D.
  Topic: COMPUTATION IN BAYESIAN MODELS FOR SURVEY SCALE USAGE
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: April 30, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Ben Baumer and Dana Draghicescu
  Topic: MAPPING BATTER ABILITY IN BASEBALL BY USING SPATIAL STATISTICS TECHNIQUES
  
  
• 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: April 28, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Li Hsu
  Topic: ANALYSIS OF GENOMIC INSTABILITY DATA
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• EPIDEMIOLOGICAL COMPUTING AND GRAPHICS IN PUBLIC HEALTH WITH R
  UMDNJ School of Public Health
  Piscataway, NJ
  Date: April 26, 2010
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: April 23, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Andrew Neath
  Topic: MODEL EVALUATION, DISCREPANCY FUNCTION ESTIMATION, AND SOCIAL CHOICE THEORY
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 22, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Ana-Maria Staicu, Ph.D.
  Topic: SPATIALLY CORRELATED MULTILEVEL FUNCTIONAL DATA
  
  
• Center for Financial Engineering at Columbia University
  New York Quantitative Finance Seminar
  Park Avenue Plaza
  New York, NY
  Date: April 22, 2010
  Topic: THE NEXUS OF FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 21, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Chaya Moskowitz
  Topic: CHOOSE THE NUMBER OF LESIONS TO MEASURE WHEN EVALUATING TUMOR RESPONSE
  
  
• 2010 RUTGERS BIOSTATISTICS DAY
  Rutgers University, Institute of Biostatistics and Department of Statistics and Biostatistics
  Piscataway, New Jersey
  Date: April 16, 2010
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: April 16, 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: April 15, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou, Ph.D.
  Topic: IDENTIFIABILITY AND ESTIMATION OF CAUSAL EFFECTS OF A NEW TREATMENT ON PATIENTS’ OUTCOMES TRUNCATED BY DEATHS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 14, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Mithat Gönen
  Topic: PREDICTIVE VALUE DECOMPOSITION
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: April 9, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Samantha Sartori
  Topic: AGEING, WORKING HOURS AND WORK ABILITY
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 8, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Huann-Sheng Chen, Ph.D.
  Topic: ASSOCIATION ANALYSIS WITH SELECTIVE GENOTYPING UNDER POPULATION STRATIFICATION
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 7, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Camelia Sima
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar Series
  Date: April 6, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Qixuan Chen, Ph.D.
  Topic: BAYESIAN INFERENCE FOR FINITE POPULATION QUANTILES FROM UNEQUAL PROBABILITY SAMPLES
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 31, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Glenn Heller
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 29, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Dr. Stanley Lemeshow
  Topic: METHODS FOR ASSESSING THE SCALE OF CONTINUOUS COVARIATES IN REGRESSION MODELING
  
  
• Center for Financial Engineering at Columbia University
  New York Quantitative Finance Seminar
  Park Avenue Plaza
  New York, NY
  Date: March 25, 2010
  Topic: STATIC AND DYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF STOCHASTIC VOLATILITY MODELS: A STRUCTURAL CONNECTION
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 25, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Jung-Ying Tzeng, Ph.D.
  Topic: MARKER-SET ANALYSIS FOR GENETIC MAIN EFFECTS AND GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS VIA GENE-TRAIT SIMILARITY REGRESSION
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar Series
  Date: March 23, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Hanga Galfalvy, Ph.D.
  Topic: LARGE-SCALE GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES OF SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR: STATISTICAL PROBLEMS INVOLVING MANY VARIABLES AND (TOO) FEW SUBJECTS
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: March 19, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Matthew Johnson
  Topic: MARGINAL MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD OF NONPARAMETRIC ITEM RESPONSE THEORY MODELS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 18, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Shein-Chung Chow, Ph.D.
  Topic: CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN CLINICAL TRIALS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 17, 2010
  Guest Speaker: Zhigang Zhang
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• 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
  
  
• 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
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• 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
  
  
• 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
  
  
• 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