Biostatistics Seminars - Winter 2018
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 2018 will take place from 3:30 to 4:30 PM on Tuesdays in Room 24 at Purvis Hall (unless otherwise stated). JOINT SEMINAR ON FEB. 5 TO BE HELD AT THE McINTYRE MEDICAL BUILDING - Room 521
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
|---|
| January 23, 2018 |
Andrew J. Vickers
|
How Do We Know Whether A Predictive Model Is Of Clinical Value? A Discussion Of Some Simple Decision Analytic Methods |
| January 30, 2018 |
Ernest Lo |
Biostatistics Research At The Quebec Public Health Institute: In Search Of An Unbiased Life Expectancy Estimator For Regional Populations |
| MONDAY - February 5, 2018 |
Jeffrey W. Eaton
JOINT Epi/Bios Seminar
|
New Models And Data For Estimating HIV Epidemic Trends In Sub-Saharan Africa |
| February 13, 2018 |
Chien-Lin Su (Mark) |
The Accelerated Trend-Renewal Process for Recurrent Event Data |
| February 20, 2018 |
Mark Stinner |
Disclosure Control and Random Tabular Adjustment |
| February 27, 2018 |
Ting-Huei Chen |
A Conprehensive Statistical Framework For Building Polygenic Risk Prediction Models Based On Summary Statistics Of Genome-Wide Associate Studies |
| March 6, 2018 |
NO SEMINAR - READING WEEK - March 5-9, 2018 |
| March 13, 2018 |
Martin Wolkewitz |
Multi-State Approaches To Unmask And Repair Survival Biases In Epidemiology |
| March 20, 2018 |
Tianxi Cai |
Efficient Use of EHR for Biomedical Translational Research |
| March 27, 2018 |
Competing Teams |
Predicting the 90th Academy Awards - Results from the Field |