American Statistical Association New York City Metropolitan Area Chapter Other Metro Area Events 2008

Past Events 2008 (Reverse Chronological Order)

• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: December 18, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Jinbo Chen
  Topic: A PSEUDO-LIKELIHOOD METHOD FOR INCORPORATING MISSING COVARIATE DATA IN STRATIFIED CASE-CONTROL STUDIES
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: December 17, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Adam B. Olshen, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Center for Financial Engineering at Columbia University
  New York Quantitative Finance Seminar
  Park Avenue Plaza
  New York, NY
  Date: December 11, 2008
  Topic: 2008 BAILOUTS: AS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF LTCM
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: BIOEQUIVALENCE
  Date: December 10, 2008
  Presenter: Scott Patterson (Wyeth) and Byron Jones (Pfizer)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: December 10, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Katherine S. Panageas, DrPH
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• 64th ANNUAL DEMING CONFERENCE ON APPLIED STATISTICS
  Tropicana Casino and Resort
  Atlantic City, New Jersey
  Dates: December 8 - 12, 2008
  
  
• Center for Applied Probability (CAP) at Columbia University
  Columbia University
  New York, New York
  Date: December 5, 2008
  Topic: THE 15th ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON DERIVATIVE SECURITIES & RISK MANAGEMENT
  
  
• Department of Statistics at Columbia University
  in collaboration with the Center of Applied Probability and the Center for Financial Engineering
  New York, New York
  Date: December 4, 2008
  Workshop: COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE WITH R
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: December 3, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Zhigang Zhang, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: December 2, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Yuanjia Wang, Ph.D.
  Topic: ADJUSTING FOR TREATMENT EFFECT WHEN ESTIMATING OR TESTING GENETIC EFFECT IS OF MAIN INTEREST
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: November 20, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Surajit Ray
  Topic: CLUSTERING AND CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONAL DATA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 19, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Marinela Capanu, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Center for Financial Engineering at Columbia University
  New York Quantitative Finance Seminar
  Park Avenue Plaza
  New York, NY
  Date: November 19, 2008
  Topic: WHY IS FINANCIAL MARKET VOLATILITY SO HIGH?
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 18, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Ying Wei, Ph.D.
  Topic: STATISTICS CAN LIE BUT CAN ALSO CORRECT FOR LIES: REDUCING RESPONSE BIAS IN NLAAS VIA BAYESIAN IMPUTATION
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: November 13, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Dr. Edward Lakatos
  Topic: DESIGNER BOUNDARIES TO DESIGN FOR A RANGE OF ALTERNATIVES
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 12, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Colin B. Begg, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: November 6, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Professor Kung-Yee Liang
  Topic: COMPOSITE LIKELIHOOD: SOME BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 5, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Venkatraman E. Seshan, Ph.D.
  Topic: DNA METHYLATION PROFILING USING MSNP
  
  
• FIFTEENTH ANNUAL BIOPHARMACEUTICAL APPLIED STATISTICS SYMPOSIUM (BASS)
  Mulberry Inn
  Savannah, Georgia
  Dates: November 3 - 7, 2008
  
  
• Center for Financial Engineering at Columbia University
  New York Quantitative Finance Seminar
  Park Avenue Plaza
  New York, NY
  Date: October 30, 2008
  Topic: THE SUBTLE NATURE OF PRICE EFFICIENCY: HOW MARKETS SLOWLY DIGEST SUPPLY AND DEMAND
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 29, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Ronglai Shen, Ph.D.
  Topic: INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS OF CANCER GENOMICS
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 28, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Sheila Donahue, M.A.
  Topic: DATA SYSTEMS AND RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES AT NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF MENTAL HEALTH: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: October 23, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Professor Zhaoxia Yu
  Topic: IMPUTATION OF MISSING GENETIC DATA - FROM RAW TO PHASED
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 22, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Mithat Gönen, Ph.D.
  Topic: MODEL VALIDATION USING THE CONCORDANCE PROBABILITY ESTIMATE
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: STRATIFIED ANALYSES: TIPS FOR IMPROVING POWER
  Date: October 21, 2008
  Presenter: Devan V. Mehrotra (Merck Research Laboratories)
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 21, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Ying Wei, Ph.D.
  Topic: QUANTILE REGRESSION WITH MEASUREMENT ERROR
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: October 16, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Professor William Dunsmuir
  Topic: TIME SERIES THAT COUNT!
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 15, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Andrew Vickers, Ph.D.
  Topic: FAILURE OF TRADITIONAL PERFORMANCE METRICS FOR THE EVALUATION OF DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, MOLECULAR MARKERS AND PREDICTION MODELS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 8, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Sujata Patil, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: October 2, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Professor Hongyu Zhao
  Topic: HIERARCHICAL MODELS FOR SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION PATHWAY ANALYSIS FROM SINGLE CELL MEASUREMENTS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 1, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Hongyu Zhao, Ph.D.
  Topic: INCORPORATING PRIOR BIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE IN GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 30, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Wei-Yann Tsai, Ph.D.
  Topic: PROPORTIONAL DENSITY RATIO MODEL
  
  
• Center for Financial Engineering at Columbia University
  New York Quantitative Finance Seminar
  Park Avenue Plaza
  New York, NY
  Date: September 25, 2008
  Topic: THE STUDY OF PRICE IMPACT AND EFFECTIVE SPREAD
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: September 25, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Dr. Peter Song
  Topic: COMPOSITE LIKELIHOOD EM ALGORITHM AND APPLICATIONS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 24, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Thérčse Stukel
  Topic: CAN STANDARD STATISTICAL METHODS REMOVE SELECTION BIAS IN OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES?
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 23, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Tor D. Wager, Ph.D.
  Topic: SINGLE AND MULTI-LEVEL MEDIATION IN fMRI: A STRATEGY FOR LOCALIZING FUNCTIONAL PATHWAYS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 17, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Francesca Demichelis, Ph.D.
  Topic: COPY NUMBER ALTERATIONS AND FUSION PROSTATE CANCER
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 16, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Carole Siegel, Ph.D.
  Topic: A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF HOUSING MODELS FOR PERSONS WITH SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS: CAUSAL INFERENCE USING PROPENSITY SCORING AND POTENTIAL OUTCOMES
  
  
• 2008 FDA/INDUSTRY STATISTICS WORKSHOP
  Marriott Crystal Gateway
  Arlington, VA
  Dates: September 15 - 17, 2008
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 9, 2008
  Guest Speaker: David Madigan, Ph.D.
  Topic: DATA MINING IN THE DRUG DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
  
  
• 2008 JOINT STATISTICAL MEETINGS
  Location: Denver, Colorado
  Dates: August 3 - 7, 2008
  Theme: Communicating Statistics: Speaking Out and Reaching Out
  
  
• Center for Applied Probability (CAP) at Columbia University
  Columbia University
  New York, NY
  Date: June 28, 2008
  Topic: 15th ANNUAL APPLIED PROBABILITY DAY (APD) IN HONOR OF CHRISTOPHER C. HEYDE
  
  
• Fordham University Department of Psychology
  Fordham Council on Applied Psychometrics (FCAP) Conference
  Dates: June 26 - 27, 2008
  Location: Fordham University Rose Hill Campus, Bronx, New York
  Topic: PSYCHOMETRICS: APPLICATIONS, TRAINING AND THE NEED FOR EXPERTISE
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: June 12, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Anestis Antoniadis
  Topic: THE DANTZIG SELECTOR IN THE REGRESSION MODEL FOR RIGHT-CENSORED DATA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: June 11, 2008
  Guest Speaker: David L. Banks, Ph.D.
  Topic: STATISTICAL ISSUES IN METABOLOMICS
  
  
• Center for Financial Engineering at Columbia University
  New York Quantitative Finance Seminar
  Park Avenue Plaza
  New York, NY
  Date: May 29, 2008
  Topic: INTEREST RATE MODELS: THE PAST, THE PRESENT, THE FUTURE
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 28, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Heejung Bang, Ph.D.
  Topic: BLINDING INDEX FOR CLINICAL TRIALS
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: ASSESSMENT OF QTc PROLONGATION IN CLINICAL DRUG DEVELOPMENT
  Date: May 22, 2008
  Presenter: Alex Dmitrienko
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 21, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Glenn Heller, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: May 15, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Andrew Gelman
  Topic: WHY WE DON'T (USUALLY) WORRY ABOUT MULTIPLE COMPARISONS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 14, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer, Ph.D.
  Topic: LIKELIHOOD-BASED DESIGNS FOR EARLY STOPPING IN PHASE II CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS
  
  
• City College of New York/City University of New York
  Seminar on Statistics and Statistical Analysis for the Working Professional
  Topic: STATISTICS AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: AN OVERVIEW FOR THE WORKING PROFESSIONAL
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  Dates: May 8 - 9, 2008
  Location: The City College of New York/CUNY Center for Worker Education, New York, NY
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: May 8, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Jane-Ling Wang
  Topic: AN EXTENDED HAZARD MODEL FOR THE JOINT ANALYSIS OF LONGITUDINAL AND EVENT-TIME DATA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 7, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Mithat Gönen, Ph.D.
  Topic: MULTI-STATE MODELING OF RECURRENT GASTRIC CANCER
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: May 1, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Naisyin Wang
  Topic: MODELING CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING LATENT LONGITUDINAL COVARIATES -- MEASUREMENT ERROR PROSPECTIVES
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 30, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Anastasios A. Tsiatis, Ph.D.
  Topic: IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF INFERENCES IN RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS USING AUXILIARY COVARIATES
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series (Outline): STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF SURROGATE ENDPOINTS IN CLINICAL TRIALS
  Date: April 24, 2008
  Presenter: Professor Geert Molenberghs
  Module I (Registration): Towards Unification
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 24, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Jun Liu
  Topic: HUNTING FOR INTERACTIONS -- A BAYESIAN APPROACH
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 23, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Yuelin Li, Ph.D.
  Topic: DISCOVERING LATENT GROWTH TRAJECTORIES OF A BIOMARKER AND LINK THEM TO A SURVIVAL OUTCOME: SIMPLIFICATION OR OVEREXTRACTION?
  
  
• American Statistical Association
  LearnSTAT Course: ANALYSIS OF CENSORED DATA
  Date: April 18, 2008
  Location: ASA Office, Alexandria, VA
  Presenter: Dr. Danyu Lin
  
  
• University of Pennsylvania Annual Conference on Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials: From Bench to Bedside to Community
  Funding Sponsor: NIH NCI Grant R13-CA132565
  Co-Sponsor: American Statistical Association
  Location: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
  Date: April 18, 2008
  Theme: EARLY, TRANSLATIONAL AND PROOF OF CONCEPT STUDIES: THE ”GO/NO GO” DECISIONS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 17, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Bradley P. Carlin
  Topic: ANALYSIS OF MARKED POINT PATTERNS WITH SPATIAL AND NONSPATIAL COVARIATE INFORMATION
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 10, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Stephen Portnoy
  Topic: FIXED vs. RANDOM CENSORING: IS IGNORANCE BLISS?
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 9, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Chaya S. Moskowitz, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 9, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Ian Ford
  Topic: THE WEST OF SCOTLAND CORONARY PREVENTION STUDY: 20 YEARS AND STILL GOING
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University
  and New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Joint Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 1, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Vijay Nair
  Topic: A MULTISTAGE EXPERIMENTATION FRAMEWORK FOR BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTION STUDIES
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 27, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Jianhui Zhou
  Topic: DIMENSION REDUCTION BASED ON CONSTRAINED CANONICAL CORRELATION AND VARIABLE FILTERING
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series (Outline): STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF SURROGATE ENDPOINTS IN CLINICAL TRIALS
  Date: March 27, 2008
  Presenter: Professor Geert Molenberghs
  Module II (Registration): The Meta-analytic Framework
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 26, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Ann G. Zauber, Ph.D.
  Topic: DECISION ANALYSIS OF COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING TESTS BY AGE TO BEGIN, AGE TO END, AND SCREENING INTERVALS: REPORT TO THE UNITED STATES PREVENTIVE SERVICES TASK FORCE FROM THE CANCER INTERVENTION AND SURVEILLANCE MODELING NETWORK (CISNET) FOR 2007
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 13, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Zhang Chunming
  Topic: SEMIPARAMETRIC DETECTION OF SIGNIFICANT ACTIVATION FOR BRAIN fMRI
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 12, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Jaya M. Satagopan, Ph.D.
  Topic: SAMPLING ISSUES IN BIOMARKER STUDIES
  
  
• 98^th Annual Meeting of the American Psychopathological Association
  Sponsor: American Psychopathological Association
  Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, New York, New York
  Dates: March 6 - 8, 2008
  Topic: CAUSALITY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY: FINDING THE DETERMINANTS OF DISORDERS AND THEIR CURES
  
  
• THE 6th ANNUAL ASA CONNECTICUT CHAPTER MINI-CONFERENCE
  Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals
  Danbury, CT
  Date: March 6, 2008
  Topic: Applied Causal Inference
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 6, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Marianthi Markatou
  Topic: DISTANCES IN HIGH DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 5, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Colin B. Begg, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 27, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Melissa J. Fazzari, Ph.D.
  Topic: ANALYZING AND UNDERSTANDING EPIGENOMIC DATA
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series (Outline): STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF SURROGATE ENDPOINTS IN CLINICAL TRIALS
  Date: February 21, 2008
  Presenter: Professor Geert Molenberghs
  Module I (Registration): Setting the Scene
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: February 21, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Robert Weiss
  Topic: GET THE MOST OUT OF GRADUATE SCHOOL: PREPARING TO BE AN ACADEMIC BIOSTATISTICIAN (A special seminar for the students.)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 20, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Adam B. Olshen, Ph.D.
  Topic: SEGMENTATION OF ARRAY CGH DATA WITH APPLICATION TO ALLELE SPECIFIC COPY NUMBER AND COPY NUMBER VARIATION
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: February 14, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Boxin Tang
  Topic: ORTHOGONAL ARRAYS ROBUST TO NONNEGLIGIBLE TWO-FACTOR INTERACTIONS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: February 7, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Dr. Naitee Ting
  Topic: CONFIRM AND EXPLORE: A STEPWISE APPROACH TO CLINICAL STUDY DESIGNS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 6, 2008
  Guest Speaker: James Robins, Ph.D.
  Topic: ESTIMATION OF OPTIMAL TREATMENT STRATEGIES FROM OBSERVATIONAL DATA: WHEN TO START HIGHLY ACTIVE RETROVIRAL THERAPY (HAART)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 30, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Zhigang Zhang, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 23, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Barry Taylor, Ph.D.
  Topic: A STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING FUNCTIONAL COPY-NUMBER ALTERATION IN THE SOMATIC CANCER GENOME
  
  
• 7^th International Conference On Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS)
  Sponsor: Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association
  Location: Philadelphia, PA
  Dates: January 17 - 18, 2008
  Topic: STRIVING FOR CONSENSUS ON METHODS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 16, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Ronglai Shen, Ph.D.
  Topic: COMMON ONCOGENIC PATHWAYS UNDERPINNING THE PREDICTION CONCORDANCE OF SEVERAL BREAST-CANCER GENE-SIGNATURES
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Web-Based Training Session
  Date: January 10, 2008
  Presenters: Jeff Maca and Paul Gallo
  Topic: SEAMLESS DESIGNS AND TRIAL INTEGRITY ISSUES IN ADAPTIVE DESIGNS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 9, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Andrew Vickers, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION