American Statistical Association New York City Metropolitan Area Chapter Other Metro Area Events 2009

Past Events 2009 (Reverse Chronological Order)

• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: December 17, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Ji Zhu, Ph.D.
  Topic: PARTIAL CORRELATION ESTIMATION BY JOINT SPARSE REGRESSION MODELS
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: BAYESIAN CLINICAL TRIALS
  Date: December 15, 2009
  Presenter: Scott Berry (Berry Consultants)
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: December 11, 2009 (This event was originally listed as taking place on December 4, 2009)
  Guest Speaker: Alexia Iasonos
  Topic: THE CONTINUAL REASSESSMENT METHOD IN DOSE-FINDING PHASE I TRIALS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: December 9, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Li-Xuan Qin
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: December 8, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Yihong Zhao, Ph.D. Candidate (Dissertation research under the direction of R. Todd Ogden, Ph.D.)
  Topic: WAVELET-BASED FUNCTIONAL LINEAR REGRESSION
  
  
• 65th ANNUAL DEMING CONFERENCE ON APPLIED STATISTICS
  Tropicana Casino and Resort
  Atlantic City, New Jersey
  Dates: December 7 - 11, 2009
  
  
• RUTGERS UNIVERSITY / ASA NEW JERSEY CHAPTER SYMPOSIUM
  Rutgers University
  Piscataway, New Jersey
  Date: December 4, 2009
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: December 3, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Dr. Antai Wang
  Topic: GENE SELECTION FOR MICROARRAY DATA ANALYSIS USING PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: December 3, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Gang Zheng, Ph.D.
  Topic: APPROXIMATE BAYES FACTORS FOR CASE-CONTROL GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: December 2, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Dr. Antai Wang
  Topic: GOODNESS-OF-FIT TESTS FOR ARCHIMEDEAN COPULA MODELS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: December 2, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Glenn Heller
  Topic: A MEASURE OF EXPLAINED VARIATION FOR THE PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS REGRESSION MODEL
  
  
• The Center for Financial Engineering and The Center for Applied Probability (CAP) at Columbia University
  Columbia University
  New York, NY
  Date: November 20, 2009
  Topic: 16th ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON DERIVATIVE SECURITIES & RISK MANAGEMENT
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 18, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Venkatraman Seshan
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 17, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Eva Petkova, Ph.D.
  Topic: CLUSTERING AND PARTITIONING OF FUNCTIONAL DATA FOR UNDERSTANDING THE HETEROGENEITY IN PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: November 12, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Rongling Wu, Ph.D.
  Topic: FUNCTIONAL MAPPING OF COMPLEX DYNAMIC SYSTEMS: A DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION FRAMEWORK
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 11, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Jon A. Wellner
  Topic: SEMI-PARAMETRIC MODELS WITH DATA MISSING BY DESIGN AND INVERSE PROBABILITY WEIGHTED EMPIRICAL PROCESSES: PARTIAL RESULTS AND OPEN PROBLEMS
  
  
• SIXTEENTH ANNUAL BIOPHARMACEUTICAL APPLIED STATISTICS SYMPOSIUM (BASS XVI)
  Mulberry Inn
  Savannah, Georgia
  Dates: November 9 - 13, 2009
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 4, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Ronglai Shen
  Topic: INTEGRATIVE CLUSTERING STRATEGY AND SUBTYPE ANALYSIS IN GLIOBLASTOMAS
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: October 30, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Sklar
  Topic: FINDING THE UNTOLD STORY: WHAT CAN THE DATA TELL US?
  
  
• Center for Financial Engineering at Columbia University
  New York Quantitative Finance Seminar
  Park Avenue Plaza
  New York, NY
  Date: October 29, 2009
  Topic: INTRADAY PATTERNS IN THE CROSS-SECTION OF STOCK RETURNS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: October 29, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Herb M. Lachman, M.D.
  Topic: THE USE OF EPIGENETIC PROFILING IN UNDERSTANDING THE MOLECULAR AND GENETIC BASIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 28, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Alexia Iasonos
  Topic: ESTIMATING THE DOSE-TOXICITY CURVE IN COMPLETED PHASE I STUDIES
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 27, 2009
  Guest Speakers: Hanga Galfavy, Ph.D. Naihua Duan, Ph.D., and Steve Ellis, Ph.D.
  Topic: BASIC ISSUES IN TESTING STATISTICAL MODELS: A PANEL DISCUSSION
  
  
• 2009 NON-CLINICAL BIOSTATISTICS CONFERENCE
  Harvard School of Public Health
  Boston, Massachusetts
  Dates: October 21 - 23, 2009
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 21, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Jaya Satagopan
  Topic: ANALYSIS OF COUNT OUTCOMES
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 20, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Stuart, Ph.D.
  Topic: THE USE OF PROPENSITY SCORES TO ASSESS GENERALIZABILITY
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: October 16, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Benjamin Baumer
  Topic: A SURVEY OF METHODS FOR THE STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF DEFENSIVE ABILITY IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
  
  
• 17th TEMPLE CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH TOPICS IN BIOPHARMACEUTICAL STATISTICS
  Plymouth Meeting DoubleTree Hotel
  Plymouth Meeting, PA
  Date: October 16, 2009
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: October 15, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Yanyuan Ma, Ph.D.
  Topic: A LOCALLY EFFICIENT ESTIMATOR FOR SEMIPARAMETRIC MEASUREMENT ERROR MODELS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 14, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Xihong Lin
  Topic: STATISTICAL ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN ANALYZING HIGH-THROUGHPUT "OMICS" DATA IN POPULATION-BASED STUDIES
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: INTRODUCTION TO HIERARCHICAL BAYES METHODS FOR DATA ANALYSIS
  Date: October 13, 2009
  Presenter: Brad Carlin (University of Minnesota)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 7, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Timothy Bishop
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: October 2, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Andrew Robertson
  Topic: HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS FOR DAILY RAINFALL MODELING AND DOWNSCALING OF CLIMATE PREDICTIONS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: October 1, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Dr. Adin-Cristian Andrei
  Topic: A NOVEL PSEUDO-OBSERVATIONS-BASED MODELING APPROACH FOR INTERVAL-CENSORED DATA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 30, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Mariza de Andrade
  Topic: GENETIC ANALYSIS: EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED
  
  
• 2009 NEW ENGLAND SYMPOSIUM ON STATISTICS IN SPORTS
  Harvard University (Science Center)
  Cambridge, Massachusetts
  Date: September 26, 2009
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: September 25, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Iuliana Ismailescu
  Topic: THE REACTION OF EMERGING MARKET CREDIT DEFAULT SWAP SPREADS TO SOVEREIGN CREDIT RATING CHANGES
  
  
• 2009 FDA/INDUSTRY STATISTICS WORKSHOP
  Capitol Hilton
  Washington, D.C.
  Dates: September 24 - 25, 2009
  Additional Short Courses Available September 23, 2009
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 23, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Katherine Panageas
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 22, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Edward Nunes
  Topic: ACCOUNTING FOR BASELINE SEVERITY IN ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL TRIALS: EXAMPLES FROM THE ADDICTION TREATMENT LITERATURE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ANALYSIS
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: USE OF GENOMICS & PREDICTIVE BIOMARKERS IN THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF PHASE III CLINICAL TRIALS
  Date: September 18, 2009
  Presenter: Richard Simon (National Cancer Institute)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 16, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Jeremy Taylor
  Topic: USING A JOINT LONGITUDINAL-SURVIVAL MODEL IN PROSTATE CANCER STUDIES
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 9, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Marinela Capanu
  Topic: SIMULATION STUDY OF HIERARCHICAL MODELING FOR ESTIMATING CANCER RISKS OF INDIVIDUAL GENETIC VARIANTS
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 8, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Fernando Perez-Cruz, Ph.D.
  Topic: SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING
  
  
• Quality and Productivity Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: PREDICTION FOR PRODUCTION AND THE ARTS OF CHARTS
  Date: September 8, 2009
  Presenter: J. Stuart Hunter (Princeton University)
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: GENOMIC DATA ANALYSIS WITH TARGETED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD AND SUPER LEARNING
  Date: August 24, 2009
  Presenter: Mark van der Laan (UC Berkeley)
  
  
• JSM 2009
  Theme: Statistics: From Evidence to Policy
  Walter E. Johnson Convention Center
  Washington, DC
  Dates: August 1 - 6, 2009
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: LARGE-SCALE SIGNIFICANCE TESTING OF GENOMIC DATA
  Date: July 23, 2009
  Presenter: John Storey (Princeton University)
  
  
• Center for Applied Probability (CAP) at Columbia University
  Columbia University
  New York, NY
  Date: July 10, 2009
  Topic: 16th ANNUAL APPLIED PROBABILITY DAY (APD)
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF COUNT DATA
  Date: June 18, 2009
  Presenter: Mani Lakshminarayanan (Merck & Co., Inc.)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: June 10, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Howard T. Thaler, Ph.D.
  Topic: WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: June 3, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Colin B. Begg, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Drug Information Association (DIA)
  Meta-Analysis Webinar Series Part III: ROLE OF META-ANALYSIS IN REGULATORY DECISION MAKING
  Date: May 28, 2009
  Presenters: Ronald Krall, M.D. (Retired, GlaxoSmithKline) and Mark Levenson, Ph.D. (FDA)
  
  
• Center for Financial Engineering at Columbia University
  New York Quantitative Finance Seminar
  Park Avenue Plaza
  New York, NY
  Date: May 20, 2009
  Topic: CoVaR
  
  
• Drug Information Association (DIA)
  Meta-Analysis Webinar Series Part II: META-ANALYSIS OF OBSERVATIONAL DATA
  Date: May 19, 2009
  Presenters: Richard Forshee, Ph.D. (FDA) and Christopher H. Schmid, Ph.D. (Tufts University School of Medicine; Tufts Medical Center)
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute Division of Biostatistics and Data Coordination
  SYMPOSIUM ON COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: INTERDISCIPLINARY CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES
  Columbia University School of Social Work
  New York, New York
  Date: May 18, 2009
  
  
• Drug Information Association (DIA)
  Meta-Analysis Webinar Series Part I: META-ANALYSIS OF RARE EVENTS FROM CLINICAL TRIALS
  Date: May 14, 2009
  Presenters: Jesse Berlin, Sc.D. (Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development) and H. Amy Xia, PhD (Amgen, Inc.)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 13, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Terry Speed, Ph.D.
  Topic: STATISTICAL CHALLENGES WITH NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCE DATA
  
  
• THE 11th ANNUAL STATISTICS IN PSYCHIATRY SYMPOSIUM
  University of Pennsylvania (Clinical Research Building)
  Philadelphia, PA
  Symposium Map and Directions
  Date: May 11, 2009
  
  
• Joint Symposium of the Committee on National Statistics and the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  National Academies Building
  Washington, D.C.
  Date: May 8, 2009
  Topic: THE FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM - RECOGNIZING ITS CONTRIBUTIONS; MOVING IT FORWARD
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: May 7, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Prof. David Ruppert
  Topic: PENALIZED SPLINES, MIXED MODELS, AND RECENT LARGE-SAMPLE RESULTS
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: ANOTHER LOOK AT STRATIFIED ANALYSIS OF BINARY DATA
  Date: May 7, 2009
  Presenter: Christy Chuang-Stein (Pfizer Inc.)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 6, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Ann G. Zauber, Ph.D.
  Topic: COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF CT COLONOGRAPHY TO SCREEN FOR COLORECTAL CANCER: REPORT TO CENTER FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES FROM CANCER INTERVENTION AND SURVEILLANCE MODELING NETWORK (CISNET)
  
  
• New York University
  Statistics in Society Lecture
  The Center for the Promotion of Research Involving Innovative Statistical Methodology (PRIISM)
  Date: May 5, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Michael Greenstone
  Topic: WEATHER AND DEATH IN INDIA: MECHANISMS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
  
  
• Fordham University Department of Psychology
  FORDHAM COUNCIL ON APPLIED PSYCHOMETRICS (FCAP) WORKSHOPS 2009
  Dates: May 1, 2009
  Location: Fordham University Rose Hill Campus, Bronx, New York
  Topics: BAYESIAN ANALYSIS WITH WINBUGS and INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTING IN R
  
  
• LearnSTAT: INTRODUCTION TO META-ANALYSIS
  Marriott Teaneck at Glenpointe
  Teaneck, NJ
  Date: May 1, 2009
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 30, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Edwin van den Oord, Ph.D.
  Topic: BIOMARKER RESEARCH AND PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
  
  
• LearnSTAT: SURVIVAL ANALYSIS IN CLINICAL TRIALS
  Marriott Teaneck at Glenpointe
  Teaneck, NJ
  Date: April 30, 2009
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 29, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Edwin van den Oord, Ph.D.
  Topic: BIOMARKER RESEARCH AND PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 29, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Sujata Patil, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• University of Pennsylvania Annual Conference on Statistical Issues in Clinical Trials: From Bench to Bedside to Community
  University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
  Biomedical Research Building Auditorium
  Philadelphia, PA
  Date: April 29, 2009
  Topic: TARGETED THERAPIES
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Co-Sponsor: Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
  Date: April 28, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Thomas Ten Have, Ph.D.
  Topic: CAUSAL VS. STANDARD APPROACHES TO STRATIFYING ON POST-RANDOMIZATION FACTORS IN CLINICAL TRIALS
  
  
• The 3rd Annual FDA/DIA Statistics Forum
  Westin Arlington Gateway
  Arlington, VA
  Dates: April 27 - 29, 2008
  Topic: EMERGING AND STRATEGIC ISSUES IN DRUG DEVELOPMENT: PERSONALIZED MEDICINE AND GUIDANCE UPDATES
  
  
• Center for Financial Engineering at Columbia University
  New York Quantitative Finance Seminar
  Park Avenue Plaza
  New York, NY
  Date: April 23, 2009
  Topic: ERRORS, ROBUSTNESS, AND THE FOURTH QUADRANT
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 22, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Douglas E. Schaubel, Ph.D.
  Topic: ESTIMATING THE EFFECT OF A TIME-DEPENDENT THERAPY ON RESTRICTED MEAN RESIDUAL LIFETIME
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 21, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Joy Hirsch, Ph.D.
  Topic: FUNCTIONAL BRAIN IMAGING: EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND STATISTICAL ADAPTATIONS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 16, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Runze Li
  Topic: VARIABLE SELECTION FOR MEASUREMENT ERROR MODELS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 15, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Irina Ostrovnaya, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 8, 2009
  Guest Speaker: KyungMann Kim, Ph.D.
  Topic: A RESPONSE ADAPTIVE DESIGN WITH PHARMACOGENOMIC BIOMARKERS FOR TARGETED THERAPIES
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 7, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Myunghee Cho Paik, Ph.D.
  Topic: WEIGHTING ESTIMATORS FOR COX REGRESSION WITH MISSING COVARIATES
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: CASE STUDY IN PARAMETRIC SURVIVAL MODELING
  Date: April 3, 2009
  Presenter: Frank E. Harrell, Jr. (Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine)
  
  
• 2009 RUTGERS BIOSTATISTICS DAY: A CONFERENCE TO CELEBRATE BIOSTATISTICS RESEARCH
  Topic: Emerging Issues on Clinical Trials
  Rutgers University, Busch Campus, Fiber Optics Auditorium
  Piscataway, New Jersey
  Date: April 3, 2009
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 2, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Danyu Lin
  Topic: A GENERAL FRAMEWORK FOR ESTIMATING GENETIC EFFECTS AND GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS WITH MISSING DATA
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 1, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Sue Marcus, Ph.D.
  Topic: DEALING WITH BIAS IN THE MTA FOLLOW-UP STUDY
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 1, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Zhigang Zhang, Ph.D.
  Topic: A CLASS OF TRANSFORMED MEAN RESIDUAL LIFE MODELS UNDER RIGHT CENSORING
  
  
• ASA Traveling Course
  The University of Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia, PA
  Sponsors: The Philadelphia, Delaware, and Northern New Jersey Chapters of the American Statistical Association and an award from the American Statistical Association
  Date: March 31, 2009
  Presenter: Terry M Therneau
  Topic: SURVIVAL ANALYSIS WITH CORRELATED OR REPEATED ENDPOINTS
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 31, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Yao Lu, Ph.D.
  Topic: THE LINK BETWEEN MIGRATION AND HEALTH: A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF INDONESIAN DATA
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 26, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Terry Speed
  Topic: STATISTICAL CHALLENGES WITH NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCE DATA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 25, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Kenneth Hess, Ph.D.
  Topic: DENSITY FUNCTION ESTIMATION WITH RIGHT-CENSORED DATA
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 24, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Martin Lindquist, Ph.D.
  Topic: ANALYZING fMRI DATA WITH UNKNOWN BRAIN ACTIVATION PROFILES
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 13, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Melanie Wall, Ph.D.
  Topic: NONLINEAR STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING AS A STATISTICAL METHOD
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 12, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Jason Fine
  Topic: REVISITING COMPETING RISKS DATA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 11, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Li-Xuan Qin, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: MICROARRAY DATA ANALYSIS
  Date: March 11, 2009
  Presenter: Dhammika Amaratunga (Johnson & Johnson) and Javier Cabrera (Rutgers University)
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 10, 2009
  Guest Speaker: William C.L. Stewart, Ph.D.
  Topic: CONSTRUCTING HIGH-RESOLUTION CANDIDATE GENE REGIONS FROM DENSE SNP LINKAGE DATA: A SUBSAMPLING BASED APPROACH
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 4, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Glenn Heller, Ph.D.
  Topic: PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS REGRESSION WITH INTERVAL CENSORED DATA
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 3, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Stephen G. West, Ph.D.
  Topic: ALTERNATIVES TO THE RANDOMIZED CONTROL TRIAL
  
  
• THE 7th ANNUAL ASA CONNECTICUT CHAPTER MINI-CONFERENCE
  Bristol-Myers Squibb
  Wallingford, CT
  Date: March 3, 2009
  Topic: Non-Inferiority Clinical Trials
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: February 26, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Michael Kosorok
  Topic: REINFORCEMENT LEARNING, CLINICAL TRIALS AND INDIVIDUALIZED THERAPY
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 26, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Joseph E. Cavanaugh, Ph.D.
  Topic: AN ANALYSIS OF THE IOWA CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY SURVEY BASED ON GENERALIZED LINEAR MIXED MODELS
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 25, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Joseph E. Cavanaugh, Ph.D.
  Topic: MODEL SELECTION CRITERIA BASED ON COMPUTATIONALLY INTENSIVE ESTIMATORS OF THE EXPECTED OPTIMISM
  
  
• Center for Financial Engineering at Columbia University
  New York Quantitative Finance Seminar
  Park Avenue Plaza
  New York, NY
  Date: February 25, 2009
  Topic: WHAT DOES AN OPTION PRICE MEAN?
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 25, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Yuelin Li, Ph.D.
  Topic: HOW-TO GUIDE IN GROWTH MIXTURE MODELING USING MPLUS
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 24, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Cheng-Shiun Leu, Ph.D.
  Topic: DEALING WITH BIAS IN THE MTA FOLLOW-UP STUDY
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 18, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Sue Marcus, Ph.D.
  Topic: ESTIMATING THE CAUSAL EFFECT OF RANDOMIZATION VERSUS TREATMENT PREFERENCE
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 17, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Howard Andrews and Joseph Grun
  Topic: RESEARCH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AT NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE: CURRENT CAPABILITIES AND NEW DIRECTIONS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Research Talk
  Date: February 13, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Michael Rosenblum
  Topic: USING REGRESSION MODELS TO ANALYZE RANDOMIZED TRIALS: ASYMPTOTICALLY VALID HYPOTHESIS TESTS DESPITE INCORRECTLY SPECIFIED MODELS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: February 12, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Veronica Vieland
  Topic: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO MEASURE STATISTICAL EVIDENCE?
  
  
• New York University
  Statistics in Society Lecture
  The Center for the Promotion of Research Involving Innovative Statistical Methodology (PRIISM)
  Date: February 12, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Mark Hansen
  Topic: DATA ANALYSIS IN AN 'EXPANDED FIELD'
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: CLASSICAL SAMPLE-SIZE ANALYSIS FOR HYPOTHESIS TESTING (PART II)
  Date: February 12, 2009
  Presenter: Ralph O'Brien (Case Western)
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Research Talk
  Date: February 11, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Sandrah P. Eckel
  Topic: DETERMINING FRAILTY STATUS IN OLDER ADULTS AND EVALUATING ITS CONTRIBUTION TO MODIFICATION OF THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 11, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Alexia Iasonos, Ph.D.
  Topic: SAMPLE SIZE CALCULATION FOR SELECTING A PREDICTIVE MARKER FOR A SURVIVAL ENDPOINT
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: February 5, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Susan Murphy
  Topic: A PREDICTION INTERVAL FOR THE MISCLASSIFICATION RATE
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 4, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Chris Volinsky, Ph.D.
  Topic: RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS FOR FUN AND PROFIT
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 3, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Susan A. Murphy, Ph.D.
  Topic: DYNAMIC TREATMENT REGIMES: CHALLENGES IN DATA ANALYSIS
  
  
• Center for Financial Engineering at Columbia University
  New York Quantitative Finance Seminar
  Park Avenue Plaza
  New York, NY
  Date: January 29, 2009
  Topic: FUNCTIONAL ITO CALCULUS AND ROBUST VOLATILITY HEDGE
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: CLASSICAL SAMPLE-SIZE ANALYSIS FOR HYPOTHESIS TESTING (PART I)
  Date: January 29, 2009
  Presenter: Ralph O'Brien (Case Western)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 28, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Chaya S. Moskowitz, Ph.D.
  Topic: STATISTICAL METHODS FOR EVALUATING THE REPRODUCIBILITY OF SOLID TUMOR MEASUREMENTS USED IN RESPONSE ASSESSMENT
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 27, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Jeanne A. Teresi, Ed.D, Ph.D.
  Topic: PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOMES INFORMATION SYSTEM (PROMIS): THE DEPRESSION ITEM BANK
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: January 22, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Daniel Schaid
  Topic: ESTIMATION OF GENOTYPE RELATIVE RISKS FROM PEDIGREE DATA BY COMPOSITE LIKELIHOODS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 21, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Franziska Michor, Ph.D.
  Topic: DYNAMICS OF CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 21, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Jaehee Kim, Ph.D.
  Topic: CLUSTERING OF CHANGE PATTERNS USING FOURIER COEFFICIENTS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 14, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Jaya M. Satagopan, Ph.D.
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION