American Statistical Association New York City Metropolitan Area Chapter Other Metro Area Events 2007

Past Events 2007 (Reverse Chronological Order)

• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: December 19, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Howard T. Thaler, Ph.D.
  Topic: EXACT-AS-YOU-CAN-GET TESTS; OR ROTATING YOUR WAY THROUGH PERMUTATION SPACE
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: December 14, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Roderick Little, Ph.D.
  Topic: IMPUTATION OF MISSING DATA BASED ON THE PROPENSITY SCORE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DOUBLY ROBUST ESTIMATORS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: December 13, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Annie Qu
  Topic: EFFICIENT AGGREGATE UNBIASED ESTIMATING FUNCTIONS APPROACH FOR CORRELATED DATA WITH MISSING AT RANDOM
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: December 12, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Katherine S. Panageas, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health (Joint Seminar with the Department of Statistics)
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: December 10, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Keith Worsley
  Topic: DETECTING SPARSE CONNECTIVITY: MS LESIONS, CORTICAL THICKNESS, AND THE 'BUBBLES' TASK IN AN fMRI EXPERIMENT
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Web-Based Training Session
  Date: December 7, 2007
  Presenters: Cyrus Mehta, Jon Denne, and Keaven Anderson
  Topic: GROUP-SEQUENTIAL DESIGNS AND SAMPLE SIZE RE-ESTIMATION
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: December 6, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Jianqing Fan
  Topic: SURE INDEPENDENCE SCREENING FOR ULTRA-HIGH DIMENSIONAL FEATURE SPACE
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: December 5, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Annette Molinaro, Ph.D.
  Topic: PIECEWISE CONSTANT ESTIMATION ALGORITHMS FOR PREDICTING CLINICAL OUTCOMES - APPLICATIONS IN GENOMIC DATA
  
  
• SIXTY-THIRD ANNUAL DEMING CONFERENCE ON APPLIED STATISTICS
  Tropicana Casino and Resort
  Atlantic City, New Jersey
  Dates: Three-Day Conference is December 3 - 5, 2007, and Short Courses are December 6 - 7, 2007
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: November 29, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Raymond J. Carroll
  Topic: MEASUREMENT ERROR IN COMPLEX SEMIPARAMETRIC SETTINGS: DECONVOLUTION, SIMEX, PROJECTION AND THE NEVADA TEST SITE THYROID DISEASE STUDY
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 28, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Sujata Patil, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Web-Based Training Session
  Date: November 16, 2007
  Presenters: José Pinheiro and Brenda Gaydos
  Topic: ADAPTIVE DESIGNS IN DOSE-FINDING STUDIES
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: November 15, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Feifang Hu
  Topic: RESPONSE-ADAPTIVE RANDOMIZATION IN CLINICAL TRIALS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 14, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Alexia Iasonos, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Center for Applied Probability (CAP) at Columbia University
  Columbia University
  New York, NY
  Date: November 9, 2007
  Topic: FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CAP WORKSHOP ON DERIVATIVE SECURITIES AND RISK MANAGEMENT
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: November 8, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Heping Zhang
  Topic: MIXED EFFECTS MULTIVARIATE ADAPTIVE SPLINES MODEL FOR THE ANALYSIS OF LONGITUDINAL AND GROWTH CURVE DATA (MASAL)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 7, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Michael LeBlanc, Ph.D.
  Topic: SUBGROUP EFFECT MODELING IN CANCER
  
  
• FOURTEENTH ANNUAL BIOPHARMACEUTICAL APPLIED STATISTICS SYMPOSIUM (BASS)
  Mulberry Inn
  Savannah, Georgia
  Dates: November 5 - 9, 2007
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: November 1, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Professor Sharon Xiangwen Xie
  Topic: EVALUATING THE ACCURACY OF A DIAGNOSTIC TEST VIA AN INTERNAL RELIABILITY SAMPLE: WITH APPLICATIONS TO ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 31, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Li-Xuan Qin, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: October 25, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Professor Andrew B. Nobel
  Topic: FINDING SIGNIFICANT LARGE-AVERAGE SUBMATRICES IN HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 24, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Ying Kuen Ken Cheung, Ph.D.
  Topic: TWO PRACTICAL ISSUES IN DESIGNING PHASE I CANCER TRIALS: LATE TOXICITIES AND DOSE-TOXICITY MODELING
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: October 18, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Professor Rick Chappell
  Topic: THE NONINFERIORITY TRIAL: A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 17, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Jaya M. Satagopan, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: October 11, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Yi Tsong
  Topic: STATISTICAL ISSUES OF THOROUGH QTc CLINICAL TRIALS
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Web-Based Training Session
  Date: October 10, 2007
  Presenters: Brenda Gaydos and Vlad Dragalin
  Topic: INTRODUCTION, REVIEW OF ADAPTIVE APPROACHES, CLASSIFICATION OF ADAPTIVE DESIGNS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 10, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Mithat Gönen, Ph.D.
  Topic: NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF CONCORDANCE PROBABILITY WITH CENSORED DATA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 3, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Glenn Heller, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Center for Financial Engineering at Columbia University
  The New York Quantitative Finance Seminar
  Park Avenue Plaza
  New York, NY
  Date: September 27, 2007
  Topic: ASSET PRICE BUBBLES IN INCOMPLETE MARKETS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 26, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Michael P. Epstein, Ph.D.
  Topic: A POWERFUL AND FLEXIBLE MULTI-LOCUS ASSOCIATION TEST FOR QUANTITATIVE TRAITS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: September 20, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Xihong Lin, Ph.D.
  Topic: STATISTICAL INFERENCE IN REGULARIZED REGRESSION FOR VARIABLE SELECTION
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 19, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Colin B. Begg, Ph.D.
  Topic: ANALYSIS STRATEGIES FOR GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS
  
  
• 2007 FDA/INDUSTRY STATISTICS WORKSHOP
  Marriott Crystal Gateway
  Arlington, VA
  Dates: September 17 - 19, 2007
  Topic: TRANSLATING INNOVATION INTO PRACTICE THROUGH EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIPS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 12, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Marinela Capanu, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at
  Columbia University Medical Center
  Division of Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 11, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Patricia Cohen, Ph.D.
  Topic: ANALYSES OF TURNING POINTS IN DATA
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: September 6, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Naihua Duan, Ph.D.
  Topic: HETEROGENEITY OF TREATMENT EFFECTS, N-OF-1 TRIALS, AND EVIDENCE FARMING
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 5, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Zhigang Zhang, Ph.D.
  Topic: INFORMATIVE CENSORING IN SURVIVAL ANALYSIS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: July 24, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Guohui Zheng
  Topic: DATA MINING OF SEQUENCE-DEPENDENT FEATURES OF DNA AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF DNA CHAINS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: July 12, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Xuming He
  Topic: QUANTIFICATION OF PROTEIN LYSATE ARRAYS: A NONPARAMETRIC APPROACH
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: June 28, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Andrei Yakovlev
  Topic: A POWERFUL AND STABLE PROCEDURE FOR SELECTING DIFFERENTIALLY EXPRESSED GENES
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: June 27, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Katherine S. Panageas, Dr.Ph.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Web-Based Training Session
  Date: June 26, 2007
  Presenter: Geert Molenberghs
  Topic: INCOMPLETE DATA
  
  
• THE 27th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FORECASTING
  Marriott Marquis, Times Square
  New York, NY
  Dates: June 24 - 27, 2007
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: June 13, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Venkatraman E. Seshan, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Center for Applied Probability (CAP) at Columbia University
  Columbia University
  New York, NY
  Date: June 8, 2007
  Topic: FOURTEENTH ANNUAL APPLIED PROBABILITY DAY
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Web-Based Training Session
  Date: June 7, 2007
  Presenter: Geert Verbeke
  Topic: GENERALIZED LINEAR MIXED MODELS
  
  
• THE 16th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CHINESE STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION (ICSA) APPLIED STATISTICS SYMPOSIUM
  Sheraton Capital Center Hotel
  Raleigh, NC
  Dates: June 3 - 6, 2007
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: June 6, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Jim Corter, Ph.D.
  Topic: REPRESENTING SYMMETRIC AND ASYMMETRIC SIMILARITY RELATIONS WITH TREE AND RELATED NETWORK MODELS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 30, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Karen Bandeen-Roche, Ph.D.
  Topic: THE ROLE OF ASSUMPTIONS IN LATENT VARIABLE MODEL ESTIMATION: ELUCIDATION AND TUNING
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 23, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Adam B. Olshen, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• BAYESIAN BIOSTATISTICS WORKSHOP
  Department of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Sheraton Chapel Hill
  Chapel Hill, NC
  Dates: May 17 - 18, 2007
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 16, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Mithat Gönen, Ph.D.
  Topic: AN INDEX OF CALIBRATION FOR PREDICTIVE MODELS WITH BINARY AND CENSORED DATA
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: May 10, 2007
  Guest Speaker: James Hodges
  Topic: EFFECTS OF RESIDUAL SMOOTHING ON THE POSTERIOR OF FIXED EFFECTS IN DISEASE-MAPPING MODELS (RANDOM-EFFECT MODELS ARE STILL LINEAR MODELS)
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Web-Based Training Session
  Date: May 9, 2007
  Presenter: Geert Molenberghs
  Topic: GEE (MARGINAL MODELS)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 9, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Debashis Ghosh, Ph.D.
  Topic: STATISTICAL METHODS FOR INTEGRATING TRANSCRIPT mRNA AND COPY NUMBER DATA
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: May 3, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Matias Salibian-Barrera
  Topic: HIGH-BREAKDOWN POINT REGRESSION ESTIMATORS WITH CENSORED DATA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 2, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Sujata Patil, Ph.D.
  Topic: MODELING MULTIVARIATE LATENT TRAJECTORIES AS PREDICTORS OF A UNIVARIATE OUTCOME
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Epidemiology Colloquium
  Date: April 30, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Sara Lopez Pintado
  Topic: NONPARAMETRIC TOOLS FOR ANALYZING CURVES
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 26, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Ian McKeague
  Topic: ANALYZING TRAJECTORIES: FUNCTIONAL PREDICTORS OF UNIVARIATE RESPONSES
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 25, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Yuelin Li, Ph.D.
  Topic: MODELING BIDIRECTIONAL RELATIONS BETWEEN OUTCOME AND PATIENT THINKING: AN EXAMPLE IN RISK PERCEPTIONS AND SMOKING CESSATION
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 18, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Shili Lin, Ph.D.
  Topic: A CROSS ENTROPY MONTE CARLO APPROACH FOR AGGREGATING RESULTS FROM microRNA AND OTHER GENOMIC EXPERIMENTS
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Web-Based Training Session
  Date: April 16, 2007
  Presenter: Geert Verbeke
  Topic: LINEAR MIXED MODELS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health (Joint Seminar with the Department of Statistics)
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 16, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Professor Jun Liu
  Topic: MONTE CARLO METHODS FOR STUDYING PROTEIN STRUCTURES
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 12, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Mei-Ling Lee
  Topic: THRESHOLD REGRESSION FOR SURVIVAL ANALYSIS: MODELING EVENT OCCURRENCE WHEN LATENT HEALTH STATUS DECREASES TO A THRESHOLD
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 11, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Ann G. Zauber, Ph.D.
  Topic: LONG TERM COLORECTAL CANCER MORTALITY IN THE NATIONAL POLYP STUDY: PRELIMINARY RESULTS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 6, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Brad Efron
  Topic: BASEBALL, SHAKESPEARE, AND MODERN STATISTICAL THEORY
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 5, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Brad Efron
  Topic: SIMULTANEOUS INFERENCE: WHEN SHOULD HYPOTHESIS TESTING PROBLEMS BE COMBINED?
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 4, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Colin B. Begg, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• THE 5th ANNUAL ASA CONNECTICUT CHAPTER MINI-CONFERENCE
  Omni Hotel
  New Haven, CT
  Date: March 31, 2007
  Topic: Statistics for Spatial- and Time-Evolving Data
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 30, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Jianguo Sun
  Topic: SEMIPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS OF MULTIVARIATE PANEL COUNT DATA WITH APPLICATION TO A PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS STUDY
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 29, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Jon Kettenring
  Topic: EQUALIZING OR HIGHLIGHTING VARIABLES FOR CLUSTER ANALYSIS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 28, 2007
  Guest Speaker: David L. DeMets, Ph.D.
  Topic: TWO DESIGN ISSUES IN RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 22, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Mark Glickman
  Topic: DIFFERENTIAL ITEM FUNCTIONING IN A GRADED RESPONSE IRT MODEL: A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO ITEM DISCRIMINATIONA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 21, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Marinela Capanu, Ph.D.
  Topic: THE USE OF HIERARCHICAL MODELS FOR ESTIMATING RELATIVE RISKS OF INDIVIDUAL GENETIC VARIANTS
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Web-Based Training Session
  Date: March 21, 2007
  Presenter: Alex Dmitrienko
  Topic: MULTIPLE COMPARISONS IN CLINICAL TRIALS
  
  
• LearnSTAT: METHODS IN CLINICAL TRIALS & LONGITUDINAL AND INCOMPLETE DATA
  National Conference Center
  East Windsor, NJ
  Dates: March 15 - 16, 2007
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 8, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Yunming Mu
  Topic: A DYNAMIC QUANTILE REGRESSION TRANSFORMATION MODEL FOR LONGITUDINAL DATA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 7, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Chaya S. Moskowitz, Ph.D.
  Topic: CALCULATING THE SAMPLE SIZE AND POWER OF A STUDY WHEN THE OUTCOME IS MEASURED WITH ERROR
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 1, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Haiqun Lin
  Topic: A SEMIPARAMETRIC MULTISTATE MODEL WITH LATENT TRAITS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 28, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Andrew Vickers, Ph.D.
  Topic: DECISION CURVE ANALYSIS: A SIMPLE METHOD FOR EVALUATING DIAGNOSTIC AND PROGNOSTIC MODELS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: February 22, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Dmitri Zaykin
  Topic: FINE-MAPPING OF COMPLEX TRAITS BY CONTRASTING PATTERNS OF CORRELATION BETWEEN GENETIC LOCI
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 21, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Kathy Cronin, Ph.D.
  Topic: MODELING THE DISSEMINATION AND USAGE OF MAMMOGRAPHY IN THE U.S. POPULATION
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: February 15, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Jeff Morris
  Topic: BAYESIAN WAVELET-BASED MIXED MODELS FOR FUNCTIONAL DATA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 14, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Li-Xuan Qin, Ph.D.
  Topic: DATA NORMALIZATION METHODS FOR AFFYMETRIX ARRAYS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: February 13, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Gordon Lan
  Topic: ADAPTIVE DESIGN AND TWO-STAGE WINNER DESIGN
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: February 8, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Colin Begg
  Topic: STATISTICAL ISSUES IN DISTINGUISHING SECOND PRIMARY CANCERS FROM METASTASES
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 7, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Howard T. Thaler, Ph.D.
  Topic: Q-Q, B-C AND BEYOND: A PICTORIAL TOUR THROUGH TRANSFORMATION SPACE
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: February 1, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Aiyi Liu
  Topic: MULTISTAGE EVALUATION OF MEASUREMENT ERROR IN A RELIABILITY STUDY
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 31, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Jaya M. Satagopan, Ph.D.
  Topic: SEQUENTIAL ASSESSMENT OF DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: January 25, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Myunghee Paik
  Topic: HANDLING MISSING OUTCOMES WITHOUT SPECIFYING AUXILIARY MODELS IN GENERALIZED LINEAR MIXED MODELS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 24, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Glenn Heller, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 17, 2007
  Guest Speaker: Robert J. Klein, Ph.D.
  Topic: DISEQUILIBRIUM IN GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES