American Statistical Association New York City Metropolitan Area Chapter Other Metro Area Events 2011

Past Events 2011 (Reverse Chronological Order)

• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: December 21, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Chaya Moskowitz
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: BAYES AND R
  Date: December 16, 2011
  Presenter: Jim Albert (Bowling Green State University)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: December 14, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Irina Ostrovnaya
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: December 13, 2011
  Guest Speaker: To be Determined
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• The Levin Lecture Series
  Department of Biostatistics
  Columbia University
  Date: December 9, 2011
  Panelists: William Friedewald, M.D., Wendy Galpern, M.D., Mei-Yin Polley, Ph.D., and Tom Pajak, Ph.D.
  Topic: PANEL DISCUSSION ON CLINICAL TRIAL METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPLES
  
  
• Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: IMPLEMENTING CDISC BASED PROCESSES: GENERAL SOLUTIONS FOR COMMON CHALLENGES: FROM ADaM TO TABLES AND FIGURES
  Date: December 8, 2011
  Presenters: Mario Widel (Roche Molecular) and Steve Kirby (ViroPharma)
  
  
• The Levin Lecture Series
  Department of Biostatistics
  Columbia University
  Date: December 8, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Jay Bartroff, Ph.D.
  Topic: EFFICIENT PHASE I-II DESIGNS USING SEQUENTIAL GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO STATISTICS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: December 7, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Daniel Schaid
  Topic: ENHANCING ANALYSIS OF GENOME WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES WITH GENE ONTOLOGY AND OTHER STRUCTURES FOR GENE SETS
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Co-sponsor: Advanced Center on State Implementation Research for Children and Families
  Date: December 6, 2011
  Guest Speakers: Kimberly Hoagwood and Others - To Be Determined
  Topic: ANALYTIC AND DESIGN ISSUES IN STATE IMPLEMENTATION STUDIES
  
  
• 18th ANNUAL APPLIED PROBABILITY DAY: IN HONOR AND MEMORY OF CYRUS DERMAN
  The Center for Applied Probability (CAP) at Columbia University
  Columbia University
  New York, New York
  Date: December 2, 2011
  Guest Speakers: Mark Brown, Michael Katehakis, Sheldon M. Ross, Matthew Sobel, and Arthur F. “Pete” Veinott, Jr.
  
  
• The Levin Lecture Series
  Department of Biostatistics
  Columbia University
  Date: December 1, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Yongtao Guan, Ph.D.
  Topic: ESTIMATING INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL RISK IN SPATIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY USING SPATIALLY AGGREGATED INFORMATION ON THE POPULATION AT RISK
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 30, 2011
  Guest Speaker: John O’Quigley
  Topic: AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH TO INFERENCE IN SURVIVAL ANALYSIS (OR AN ASYMPTOTIC CARD TRICK)
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: November 29, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Mary Sammel, Sc.D.
  Topic: IDENTIFICATION OF TREATMENT RESPONDERS AND NON-RESPONDERS VIA A MULTIVARIATE GROWTH CURVE LATENT CLASS MODEL
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: BAYESIAN METHODS FOR NON-INFERIORITY TESTS AND SAMPLE SIZE DETERMINATION
  Date: November 18, 2011
  Presenter: Sujit Ghosh (NC State University)
  
  
• HIV Intervention Science Training Program for Underrepresented New Investigators (HISTP)
  Columbia University School of Social Work
  Date: November 18, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Linda Collins, Ph.D.
  Topic: THE MULTIPHASE OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY (MOST) FOR ENGINEERING BETTER BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS
  
  
• The Levin Lecture Series
  Department of Biostatistics
  Columbia University
  Date: November 17, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Pei Wang, Ph.D.
  Topic: REGULARIZATION FOR MULTIVARIATE MISSING DATA IN PROTEOMIC STUDIES
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 16, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Glenn Heller
  Topic: ESTIMATION OF THE CONCORDANCE PROBABILITY FOR STAGING SYSTEMS
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: November 15, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Zhezhen Jin, Ph.D.
  Topic: CONCORDANCE ESTIMATION WITH CENSORED REGRESSION MODELS
  
  
• Weill Cornell Medical College
  Division of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Research Seminar
  Date: November 14, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Samiran Ghosh, Ph.D.
  Topic: ON THE ESTIMATION OF THE INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE IN A TWO-PHASE LONGITUDINAL SAMPLING DESIGN
  
  
• Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: IMPLEMENTING CDISC BASED PROCESSES: GENERAL SOLUTIONS FOR COMMON CHALLENGES: FROM SDTM TO 'ANALYZABLE' ADaM
  Date: November 10, 2011
  Presenters: Mario Widel (Roche Molecular) and Steve Kirby (ViroPharma)
  
  
• The Levin Lecture Series
  Department of Biostatistics
  Columbia University
  Date: November 10, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Guoqing Diao, Ph.D.
  Topic: SEMIPARAMETRIC HAZARDS RATE MODEL FOR MODELING SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM EFFECTS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 9, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Jaya Satagopan
  Topic: INTERACTION
  
  
• EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL BIOPHARMACEUTICAL APPLIED STATISTICS SYMPOSIUM (BASS XVIII)
  Hilton Oceanfront Resort
  Mulberry Inn, Savannah, GA
  Dates: November 7 - 11, 2011
  
  
• The Levin Lecture Series
  Department of Biostatistics
  Columbia University
  Date: November 3, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Jean Opsomer, Ph.D.
  Topic: ANALYTIC INFERENCE FOR DATA FROM COMPLEX SURVEYS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: November 2, 2011
  Guest Speaker: John D. Kalbfleisch
  Topic: AN ESTIMATING FUNCTION APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF RECURRENT AND TERMINAL EVENTS
  
  
• THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF MISSING DATA IN CLINICAL TRIALS SHORT COURSE
  Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel
  Iselin, New Jersey
  Dates: November 1 - 2, 2011
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: November 1, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Samiran Ghosh, Ph.D.
  Topic: ON THE ESTIMATION OF THE INCIDENCE AND PREVALENCE RATE IN A TWO-PHASE LONGITUDINAL SAMPLING DESIGN
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 26, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Marinela Capanu
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• 2011 ANASTASI LECTURE
  Fordham University
  Lincoln Center Campus
  New York, New York
  Date: October 25, 2011
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: October 25, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Michael C. Edwards, Ph.D.
  Topic: IMPLICATIONS OF APPLICATIONS: AN EXAMINATION OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND TRENDS IN ITEM RESPONSE THEORY
  
  
• 18th ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON FINANCIAL ENGINEERING: HIGH FREQUENCY TRADING AND MARKET MICROSTRUCTURE
  The Center for Financial Engineering and the Center for Applied Probability (CAP)
  Columbia University
  New York, New York
  Date: October 21, 2011
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: October 21, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Serge Guillas
  Topic: BIVARIATE SPLINES FOR OZONE CONCENTRATION FORECASTING
  
  
• The Levin Lecture Series
  Department of Biostatistics
  Columbia University
  Date: October 20, 2011
  Guest Speaker: David Murray, Ph.D.
  Topic: DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF GROUP-RANDOMIZED AND INDIVIDUALLY RANDOMIZED GROUP-TREATMENT TRIALS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 19, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Katherine Panageas
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Co-sponsor: Advanced Center on State Implementation Research for Children and Families
  Date: October 18, 2011
  Guest Speakers: Jennifer Wisdom, Ph.D. and Carla A. Green, Ph.D.
  Topic: MIXED METHODS RESEARCH IN IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE: INTEGRATING QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE METHODS
  
  
• The Levin Lecture Series
  Department of Biostatistics
  Columbia University
  Date: October 13, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Rafael Irizzary, Ph.D.
  Topic: BUMP HUNTING IN THE EPIGENOME
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 12, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Nicholas P. Jewell
  Topic: CAUSAL DIAGRAMS AND RCTS? APPLICATIONS TO SECONDARY INTERVENTIONS AND UNMASKING EFFECTS
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: October 11, 2011
  Guest Speakers: Sharon Schwartz, Ph.D. and Melanie Wall, Ph.D.
  Topic: ARE YOU LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT INTERACTIONS? ADDITIVE VERSUS MULTIPLICATIVE INTERACTIONS WITH DICHOTOMOUS OUTCOME VARIABLES (TUTORIAL)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: October 5, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Zhigang Zhang
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: October 4, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Melanie Wall, Ph.D.
  Topic: ITEM RESPONSE THEORY AND FACTOR ANALYSIS: EMPIRICAL METHODS FOR DEVELOPING AND ASSESSING QUESTIONNAIRES AND SYMPTOM CHECKLISTS (TUTORIAL)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 28, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Richard J. Chappell
  Topic: DELTA WHAT? CHOICE OF OUTCOME SCALE IN NON-INFERIORITY TRIALS
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: September 27, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Helena Kraemer, Ph.D.
  Topic: CLARIFYING THE ROLE OF PILOT STUDIES AND HYPOTHESIS-GENERATING (EXPLORATORY) STUDIES AS NECESSARY PRECURSORS TO HYPOTHESIS-TESTING STUDIES IN CLINICAL RESEARCH
  
  
• WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN APPLIED SCIENCES
  Department of Statistics at Columbia University
  Co-sponsor: The Center for Applied Probability (CAP)
  New York, New York
  Dates: September 24 - 25, 2011
  
  
• 2011 NEW ENGLAND SYMPOSIUM ON STATISTICS IN SPORTS (NESSIS)
  Harvard University (Science Center)
  Cambridge, Massachusetts
  Date: September 24, 2011
  
  
• The Levin Lecture Series
  Department of Biostatistics
  Columbia University
  Date: September 22, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Dr. Wenbin Lu
  Topic: VARIANCE COMPONENT SELECTION IN LINEAR MIXED MODELS FOR LONGITUDINAL DATA
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University
  Seminar for Biostatistics in Psychiatry
  Date: September 20, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Victoria Stodden, Ph.D.
  Topic: THE CREDIBILITY CRISIS IN COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE: ACCOUNTABILITY AND PUBLIC HEALTH
  
  
• 2011 FDA/INDUSTRY STATISTICS WORKSHOP
  Marriott Wardman Park
  Washington, D.C.
  Dates: September 19 - 21, 2011
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 14, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Mithat Gönen
  Topic: ESTIMATION OF CELLULAR AND GENETIC DIVERSITY
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: September 7, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Mengling Liu
  Topic: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS FOR NESTED CASE-CONTROL STUDIES
  
  
• 2011 JOINT STATISTICAL MEETINGS
  Statistics: An All-Encompassing Discipline
  Miami Beach Convention Center
  Miami Beach, Florida
  Dates: July 30 - August 4, 2011
  
  
• 2011 FORDHAM COUNCIL ON APPLIED PSYCHOMETRICS (FCAP) CONFERENCE
  THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
  Fordham University
  Lincoln Center Campus
  New York, New York
  Dates: July 27, 2011 (Workshops) and July 28 - 29, 2011 (Conference)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: July 20, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Colin Begg
  Topic: SPECIAL JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: SENSITIVITY ANALYSES THAT ADDRESS MISSING DATA ISSUES IN LONGITUDINAL STUDIES FOR REGULATORY SUBMISSION
  Date: July 20, 2011
  Presenter: James Roger (GlaxoSmithKline)
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Special Seminar
  Date: June 30, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Peter F. Thall, Ph.D.
  Topic: ESTABLISHING PRIORS FOR BAYESIAN CLINICAL TRIALS
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Division Special Seminar
  Date: June 30, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Michael R. Phillips, M.D., M.A., M.Ph.
  Discussants: Hanga Galfalvy, Ph.D. and Sue Marcus, Ph.D.
  Topic: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN SUICIDE RESEARCH IN MAINLAND CHINA
  
  
• INTERNATIONAL CHINESE STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION (ICSA) 2011 APPLIED STATISTICS SYMPOSIUM
  The Westin New York Hotel at Times Square
  New York, New York
  Dates: June 26 - 29, 2011
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Special Seminar
  Date: June 23, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Steve Coad
  Topic: THE USE OF GROUP SEQUENTIAL TESTS WITH DESIGNS WHICH ADJUST FOR IMBALANCES IN PROGNOSTIC FACTORS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: June 8, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Camelia Sima
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• ANNUAL ASA NJ CHAPTER 2011 SPRING SYMPOSIUM
  University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)
  Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
  Piscataway, New Jersey
  Date: June 3, 2011
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: June 1, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Jaya Satagopan
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: May 25, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Kobi Abayomi
  Topic: STATISTICS FOR RE-IDENTIFICATION IN NETWORKED DATA MODELS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 25, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Marinela Capanu
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: May 13, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Marc Scott
  Topic: CLUSTERING COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENT TRANSCRIPTS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: May 12, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Susanne May, Ph.D.
  Topic: POOLING AND FUTILITY BOUNDARIES – CHICKEN SOUP AND KETCHUP?
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 11, 2011
  Guest Speaker: David Dunson
  Topic: BAYESIAN MODELS FOR HIGH-DIMENSIONAL CATEGORICAL AND MIXED DOMAIN DATA
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: May 6, 2011
  Guest Speaker: John Cardinale
  Topic: CASE RESIDUALS IN SEM
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: May 5, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Cun-hui Zhang, Ph.D.
  Topic: SCALED SPARSE LINEAR REGRESSION
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: May 4, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Ronglai Shen
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• 13th ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON STATISTICS IN PSYCHIATRY
  Division of Biostatistics at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute
  New York State Psychiatric Institute (Hellman Auditorium)
  New York, New York
  Date: May 2, 2011
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: April 29, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Fei Liu
  Topic: BAYESIAN REGULARIZATION VIA THE GRAPH LAPLACIAN PRIOR
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 28, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Michael Kosorok, Ph.D.
  Topic: PERSONALIZED MEDICINE IN CLINICAL TRIALS
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: BAYESIAN MODEL-BASED APPROACHES FOR SINGLE AND COMBINATION DOSE FINDING
  Date: April 27, 2011
  Presenters: Stuart Bailey and Beat Neuenschwander (Novartis Pharma AG)
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar Series
  Date: April 26, 2011
  Panelists: Steve Ellis, Ph.D., Hanga Galfalvy, Ph.D., Todd Ogden, Ph.D., Sue Marcus, Ph.D., and Naihua Duan, Ph.D.
  Topic: PANEL DISCUSSION: ARE MOST PUBLISHED FINDINGS FALSE?
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 25, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Hormuzd Katki
  Topic: LESSONS FROM STUDYING RISK STRATIFICATION IN SCREENING FOR CERVICAL CANCER AND LUNG CANCER
  
  
• Quality and Productivity Section of the American Statistical Association
  Web-Based Training Series: GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS
  Date: April 21, 2011
  Presenter: Veronica Czitrom
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 21, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Sijian Wang, Ph.D.
  Topic: PATHWAY-BASED OVARIAN CANCER SURVIVAL ANALYSIS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 20, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Andrew Vickers
  Topic: STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL TRIALS COMPARING SIMILAR TREATMENTS: FISHER OR TOYOTA?
  
  
• Syracuse Chapter of the ASA
  One-Day Short Course
  SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
  Syracuse, New York
  Date: April 19, 2011
  Presenter: Linda J. Young, Ph.D.
  Topic: APPLIED MIXED MODELS
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: April 15, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Asohan Amarasingham
  Topic: AN ANALYSIS OF CONNECTIVITY IN A NEURONAL POPULATION
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 14, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Yinglei Lai, Ph.D.
  Topic: CONCORDANT ANALYSIS OF TWO LARGE-SCALE GENE EXPRESSION DATA SETS
  
  
• 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 13, 2011
  Topic: Emerging Statistical Issues in the Conduct and Monitoring of Clinical Trials
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 13, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Li-Xuan Qin
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar Series
  Date: April 12, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Carlos Blanco, M.D., Ph.D.
  Topic: MEDICATION, CBT AND THEIR COMBINATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: April 8, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Katarzyna Wyka
  Topic: THE STRUCTURE AND COVARIATES OF PTSD IN A POPULATION OF DISASTER WORKERS - LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: April 7, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Lexin Li, Ph.D.
  Topic: SUFFICIENT DIMENSION REDUCTION: FROM THEORY TO APPLICATIONS
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: April 6, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Michael Jones
  Topic: NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF GROUP-SPECIFIC SURVIVAL FUNCTIONS FROM CASE-COHORT DATA
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar Series
  Date: April 5, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Justine Shults, Ph.D.
  Topic: QUASI-LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION
  
  
• Statistical Graphics Section and the Committee on Outreach Education of the American Statistical Association
  Web-Based Training: GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS OF DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS
  Date: April 1, 2011
  Presenter: Veronica Czitrom
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: April 1, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Olympia Hadjiliadis
  Topic: SEQUENTIAL ON-LINE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION IN 3D COMPUTER VISION
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 31, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Suzanne Leal, Ph.D.
  Topic: ANALYSIS AND REPLICATION OF COMPLEX TRAIT RARE VARIANT ASSOCIATION STUDIES: APPLICATION TO NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCE DATA
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 30, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Irina Ostrovnaya
  Topic: To be Announced
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: INTRODUCTION TO BAYESIAN STATISTICS
  Date: March 24, 2011
  Presenter: Joseph Ibrahim (University of North Carolina)
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar Series
  Date: March 22, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Eloise Kaizar, Ph.D.
  Topic: MODELING EFFECT SIZES WITH MULTIPLE DATA SOURCES
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: March 18, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Rachel Schutt
  Topic: STATISTICS AT GOOGLE
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 16, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Giovanni Parmigiani
  Topic: STATISTICAL ISSUES IN SOMATIC MUTATION STUDIES OF CANCER
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 10, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Jiashun Jin, Ph.D.
  Topic: UPS DELIVERS OPTIMAL PHASE DIAGRAM FOR HIGH DIMENSIONAL VARIABLE SELECTION
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar Series
  Date: March 8, 2011
  Panelists: Carlos Blanco, M.D., Sue Marcus, Ph.D., Naihua Duan, Ph.D., and Bruce Levin, Ph.D.
  Topic: PANEL DISCUSSION: THE NEW NIMH SHORTENED APPLICATION STATISTICAL PLAN
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: March 3, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Sandrah Eckel, Ph.D.
  Topic: QUANTIFYING THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION IN CHILDREN
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: March 2, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Glenn Heller
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: February 24, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Lan Wang, Ph.D.
  Topic: GEE ANALYSIS OF CLUSTERED BINARY DATA WITH DIVERGING NUMBER OF PARAMETERS
  
  
• Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association
  Webinar Series: GROUP SEQUENTIAL DESIGN BASICS WITH APPLICATION USING THE gsDESIGN R PACKAGE AND ITS GUI
  Date: February 23, 2011
  Presenter: Keaven Anderson (Merck & Company, Inc.)
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 23, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Venkatraman Seshan
  Topic: JOURNAL CLUB DISCUSSION
  
  
• City University of New York (CUNY) Statistics Seminar
  Date: February 18, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Iryna Lobach
  Topic: HAPLOTYPE-BASED REGRESSION ANALYSIS OF CASE-CONTROL STUDIES WITH UNPHASED GENOTYPES AND MEASUREMENT ERRORS IN ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: February 17, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Dan L. Nicolae, Ph.D.
  Topic: STATISTICAL METHODS FOR NEXT-GENERATION GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 16, 2011
  Guest Speaker: John Storey
  Topic: CHALLENGES IN THE ANALYSIS OF CLINICAL GENOMICS STUDIES
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar Series
  Date: February 15, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Bibhas Chakraborty, Ph.D.
  Topic: DYNAMIC TREATMENT REGIMES AND SMART DESIGNS
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: February 9, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Michael Littman, Ph.D.
  Topic: ADVANCES IN MODEL-BASED REINFORCEMENT LEARNING OR Q-LEARNING CONSIDERED HARMFUL
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: February 2, 2011 - CANCELED
  Guest Speaker: Mithat Gönen
  Topic: ESTIMATION OF CELLULAR AND GENETIC DIVERSITY
  
  
• Mailman School of Public Health
  Columbia University
  Department of Biostatistics Colloquium
  Date: January 27, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Karl Broman, Ph.D.
  Topic: MAPPING MULTIPLE QTL IN EXPERIMENTAL CROSSES
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 26, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Iuliana Ionita-Laza
  Topic: STATISTICAL METHODS FOR NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING DATA
  
  
• New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University Medical Center
  Biostatistics Seminar Series
  Date: January 25, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Frank Yoon, Ph.D.
  Topic: NEW APPROACHES FOR MATCHING AND ANALYSIS IN AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF MENTAL HEALTH PARITY
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 19, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Alexia Iasonos
  Topic: IDENTIFYING CLINICAL AND STATISTICAL IMPROVEMENT IN CONSOLIDATION SINGLE-ARM PHASE II TRIALS: THE OVARIAN CANCER PARADIGM
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  Epidemiology and Biostatistics Seminar
  Date: January 12, 2011
  Guest Speaker: Yuelin Li
  Topic: LATENT REGRESSION GRADED RESPONSE MODELING FOR LINKING SNPS WITH CHEMOBRAIN