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
March
6 March
Sanjoy Sinha, Associate Professor of Statistics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University.
13 March
David Hamilton, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University.
20 March
Robert Platt, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University.
27 March
Lawrence Joseph, Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University.
April
3 April
Muhammad Abu Shadeque Mullah, PhD Student - Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University.