Biostatistics Seminars - Winter 2019
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 - Winter 2019 will take place from 3:30 to 4:30 PM on Tuesdays in Room 24 at Purvis Hall (unless otherwise stated). For SPECIAL SEMINARS please see "SPECIAL SEMINARS" section for date, room and time details.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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| January 8, 2019 |
Laurent Charlin, HEC Montreal, Business School |
Deep Learning and Conversational Agents |
| January 15, 2019 |
Mohsen Sadatsafavi, University of British Columbia |
Global Measures for Capacity of Subgroup-Defining Variables to Yield Efficient Treatment Rules
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| January 22, 2019 |
Douglas Schaubel, University of Michigan |
Matching Methods for Evaluating the Effect of a Time-Dependent Treatment on the Survival Function
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| January 29, 2019 |
NO SEMINAR - JOINT EPI/BIOS - MONDAY, JANUARY 28 |
| February 5, 2019 |
Leslie McClure, Drexel University |
A Post-Hoc Evaluation of a Sample Size Re-Estimation: What Happens in Real Life? |
| February 12, 2019 |
Eva Suarthana, McGill |
When Population Gets in the Way: A Lesson in Generalization of Canadian Prediction Models for Occupational Asthma in European Countries
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| February 19, 2019 |
Tibor Schuster, McGill |
Non-Collapsibility: The Root of All Evil When Estimating and Interpreting Marginal Hazard Ratios
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| February 26, 2019 |
Erinn Hade, Ohio State University College of Medicine |
Propensity Score Matching with Time-varying Covariates for Observational Survival Data: An application to 17-Alpha Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate Treatment in Patients with Recurrent Preterm Birth |
| March 5, 2019 |
NO SEMINAR - STUDY WEEK |
| March 12, 2019 |
Min Qian, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health |
Constructing Personalized Decision Algorithm for mHealth Applications
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| March 19, 2019 |
Andrea Benedetti, McGill |
Oscar Predictions |
| March 26, 2019 |
TBA |
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