Winter 2012
Some of the purposes of these sessions are: to promote biostatistics and biostatistical methodology; serve as a learning opportunity for both students and faculty; foster communication, collaboration, professionalism, career development.
The format will be varied: seminar presentations, journal club, discussions of work in progress, interact with visitors, etc.
Who is invited: biostatisticians and biostatisticians in training; all other hyphenated-, unhyphenated- and soon-to-be-statisticians with interests in applied statistics.
Biostatistics Seminars take place at Purvis Hall, 1020 Pine Avenue West, Room 25 on Tuesdays from 4pm until 5pm [map].
January
10 January
Willy Wynant, PhD Candiate- Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University.
Topic: Inference about time-dependent and non-linear covariate effects in survival analysis: impact of model mis-specification.
17 January
Johanna Neslehova, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University.
Topic: Inglorious Count Copulas.
24 January
David R. Bickel, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottawa; PI of the Statomics Lab, Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology.
Topic: Blending Bayesian and frequentist hypothesis testing according to the extent to which a prior is known.
31 January
Jemila S. Hamid, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine, McMaster University.
Topic: Growth Curve Models in the Analysis of Longitudinal Data and an Extension to High Dimensional Time Course Data.
February
7 February
Elif Fidan Acar, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University.
Topic: Use of ranks in association analysis of imputed SNPs.
14 February
Mireille Schnitzer, PhD Candidate (Biostatistics), Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University.
Topic: Efficient causal inference for longitudinal data using targeted maximum likelihood estimation.
28 February
William Astle, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University.
Topic: A Bayesian Model for the Statistical Analysis of NMR Spectrum with Application to Metabonomics.
March
6 March
Sanjoy Sinha, Associate Professor of Statistics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University.
Topic: Inference for incomplete longitudinal data with applications to proteomics experiments.
13 March
David Hamilton, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University.
Topic: Genotype-based association analysis using discordant pairs: a penetrance odds ratio approach.
27 March
Josh Sampson, Principal Investigator, National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics.
Topic: Genome Wide Association Studies with Individuals of Known Relationship.
April
3 April
Muhammad Abu Shadeque Mullah, PhD Student - Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University.
Topic: Testing Equality of Between-Cluster and Within-Cluster Effects in Generalized Linear Mixed Models for Clustered Data.