American Statistical Association New York City Metropolitan Area Chapter Other Metro Area Events 2013

Upcoming Events 2013 (Chronological Order)

• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 17, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Sujata Patil
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 6th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL ISSUES IN CLINICAL TRIALS
  Perelman School of Medicine
  University of Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia, PA
  Date: April 17, 2013
  Topic: Dynamic Treatment Regimes
  
  
• Columbia University
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Spring 2013 Biostatistics Colloquium/Levin Lecture Series
  Date: April 18, 2013
  Speaker: Liansheng Larry Tang, Ph.D.
  Topic: OPTIMAL SAMPLING RATIOS IN DIAGNOSTIC TRIALS
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF STUDIES OF HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE
  Date: April 18, 2013
  Presenter: Diane Fairclough
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: April 23, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Dan Heijan, Ph.D.
  Topic: REAL-TIME PREDICTION IN CLINICAL TRIALS: A STATISTICAL HISTORY OF REMATCH
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 24, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Chaya Moskowitz
  Topic: To Be Announced
  
  
• Columbia University
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Spring 2013 Biostatistics Colloquium/Levin Lecture Series
  Date: April 25, 2013
  Speaker: Jae-kwang Kim, Ph.D.
  Topic: PROPENSITY-SCORE-ADJUSTMENT METHOD FOR NONIGNORABLE NONRESPONSE
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 1, 2013
  Guest Speaker: David Conti
  Topic: To Be Announced
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 8, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Li-Xuan Qin
  Topic: To Be Announced
  
  
• Columbia University
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Spring 2013 Biostatistics Colloquium/Levin Lecture Series
  Date: May 9, 2013
  Speaker: Melissa Begg, Sc.D.
  Topic: STATISTICS AND THE BIG PICTURE
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: May 14, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Pilar Lim
  Topic: THE DOUBLY RANDOMIZED ADAPTIVE ENRICHMENT DESIGN FOR USE IN NEUROSCIENCE CLINICAL TRIALS
  Additional details and abstract to follow.
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 15, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Mithat Gönen
  Topic: To Be Announced
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 22, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Glenn Heller
  Topic: To Be Announced
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 29, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Ann Zauber
  Topic: To Be Announced
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: June 5, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Marinela Capanu
  Topic: To Be Announced
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: June 12, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Veera Baladandayuthapani
  Topic: To Be Announced
  
  
• 2013 ASA BIOPHARMACEUTICAL SECTION FDA-INDUSTRY STATISTICS WORKSHOP
  Marriott Wardman Park
  Washington, D.C.
  Dates: September 16 - 18, 2013
  
  
• 30th ANNUAL QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY RESEARCH CONFERENCE (QPRC)
  GE Global Research Headquarters
  Niskayuna, New York
  Dates: June 5 - 7, 2013
  
  
• TWENTIETH ANNUAL BIOPHARMACEUTICAL APPLIED STATISTICS SYMPOSIUM (BASS XX)
  DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando Downtown
  Orlando, FL
  Dates: November 4 - 7, 2013
  
  

Past Events 2013 (Reverse Chronological Order)

• Columbia University
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Spring 2013 Biostatistics Colloquium/Levin Lecture Series
  Date: April 11, 2013
  Speaker: Marie Davidian, Ph.D.
  Topic: A ROBUST METHOD FOR ESTIMATING OPTIMAL TREATMENT REGIMES
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: April 10, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Jared Foster
  Topic: SUBGROUP IDENTIFICATION USING RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL DATA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 10, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Sanjib Basu
  Topic: A UNIFIED COMPETING RISKS CURE RATE MODEL WITH APPLICATION TO CANCER SURVIVAL DATA
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: April 9, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Zheyu Wang
  Topic: DIAGNOSTIC TEST AND BIOMARKER EVALUATION IN THE ABSENCE OF A GOLD STANDARD
  
  
• Columbia University
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Spring 2013 Biostatistics Colloquium/Levin Lecture Series
  Date: April 4, 2013
  Speaker: Marc G. Genton, Ph.D.
  Topic: ROBUST ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE FOR FUNCTIONAL AND IMAGE DATA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 3, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Benjamin French
  Topic: SEMI-PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF BINARY OUTCOMES IN LONGITUDINAL STUDIES WITH OUTCOME-DEPENDENT OBSERVATION TIMES
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: April 2, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Seonjoo Lee, Ph.D.
  Topic: CLUSTERING OF SPARSE HIGH-DIMENSIONAL LONGITUDINAL DATA
  
  
• Columbia University
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Spring 2013 Biostatistics Colloquium/Levin Lecture Series
  Date: March 28, 2013
  Speaker: Michael P. Epstein, Ph.D.
  Topic: IMPROVING THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF CASE-CONTROL STUDIES OF RARE VARIATION IN THE PRESENCE OF CONFOUNDERS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 27, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Venkatraman Seshan
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: March 26, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Gregory Matthews, Ph.D.
  Topic: SEMI-PARAMETRIC MODELS FOR LONGITUDINAL COUNT RESPONSES WITH OVERDISPERSION AND STRUCTURAL ZEROS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 20, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Howard Thaler
  Topic: AN EXPANDED STUDY OF INPATIENT RE-ADMISSION PATTERNS AT MSK
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: March 19, 2013
  Guest Speaker: He Hua, Ph.D.
  Topic: SEMI-PARAMETRIC MODELS FOR LONGITUDINAL COUNT RESPONSES WITH OVERDISPERSION AND STRUCTURAL ZEROS
  
  
• Columbia University
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Spring 2013 Biostatistics Colloquium/Levin Lecture Series
  Date: March 14, 2013
  Speaker: Satrajit Roychoudhury, Ph.D.
  Topic: SEMIPARAMETRIC BAYESIAN APPROACH FOR BENEFIT-RISK ASSESSMENTS IN DOSE-FINDING TRIALS
  
  
• Columbia University
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Spring 2013 Biostatistics Colloquium/Levin Lecture Series
  Date: March 7, 2013 - This talk has been canceled due to inclement weather and flight cancellations.
  Speaker: Junhui Wang, Ph.D.
  Topic: MODEL SELECTION VIA STABILITY
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: March 5, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Todd Ogden, Ph.D.
  Topic: WEIGHTING OBSERVATIONS BASED ON UNCERTAIN STANDARD ERROR ESTIMATES
  
  
• Columbia University
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Spring 2013 Biostatistics Colloquium/Levin Lecture Series
  Date: February 28, 2013
  Speaker: Vladimir Makarov, M.D.
  Topic: COMPUTATIONAL PIPELINE FOR NGS DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 27, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Katherine Panageas
  Topic: OFF-LABEL CHEMOTHERAPY UTILIZATION IN THE ELDERLY
  
  
• Columbia University
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Spring 2013 Biostatistics Colloquium/Levin Lecture Series
  Date: February 21, 2013
  Speaker: Yuan Ji, Ph.D.
  Topic: BAYESIAN MODELS FOR NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING DATA ON EPIGENETICS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 20, 2013
  Guest Speaker: José Pinheiro
  Topic: SAFETY MONITORING AND EVALUATION IN LATE PHASE CLINICAL DRUG DEVELOPMENT
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: February 19, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Donglin Zeng, Ph.D.
  Topic: DISCOVERING DYNAMIC TREATMENT RULES USING OUTCOME WEIGHTED LEARNING
  
  
• Columbia University
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Spring 2013 Biostatistics Colloquium/Levin Lecture Series
  Date: February 14, 2013
  Speaker: Wolfgang Karl Härdle, Ph.D.
  Topic: FUNCTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS OF GENERALIZED QUANTILE REGRESSIONS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 13, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Ronglai Shen
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Columbia University
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Spring 2013 Biostatistics Colloquium/Levin Lecture Series
  Date: February 7, 2013
  Speaker: Chiara Sabatti, Ph.D.
  Topic: STATISTICAL CHALLENGES IN THE ANALYSIS OF RESEQUENCING DATA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Date: February 6, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Sean Devlin
  Topic: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS SEMINAR
  
  
• Columbia University
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Spring 2013 Biostatistics Colloquium/Levin Lecture Series
  Date: February 1, 2013
  Speaker: Goncalo Abecasis, D.Phil.
  Topic: ANALYSES OF GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 30, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Zhigang Zhang
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: January 29, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Yang Feng, Ph.D.
  Topic: A ROAD FOR HIGH-DIMENSIONAL CLASSIFICATION WITH APPLICATIONS TO IDENTIFY CANCER PATIENT SUBGROUPS
  
  
• Columbia University
  Mailman School of Public Health
  Spring 2013 Biostatistics Colloquium/Levin Lecture Series
  Date: January 24, 2013
  Speaker: Ashkan Ertefaie, Ph.D.
  Topic: PROPENSITY SCORE ESTIMATION IN THE PRESENCE OF LENGTH-BIAS SAMPLING: A NON-PARAMETRIC ADJUSTMENT APPROACH
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 23, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Irina Ostrovnaya
  Topic: NOVEL ALGORITHM FOR STRATIFYING PATIENTS INTO SURVIVAL RISK GROUPS USING MUTATION DATA AT SELECTED GENES
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: ADAPTIVE POPULATION ENRICHMENT DESIGNS IN CONFIRMATORY CLINICAL TRIALS
  Date: January 22, 2013
  Presenter: Vlad Dragalin
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 16, 2013
  Guest Speaker: Jianqing Fan
  Topic: ESTIMATING FALSE DISCOVERY RATES WITH UNKNOWN DEPENDENCE