Biostatistics Seminars - Winter 2020
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 2020 will take place from 3:30 to 4:30 PM on WEDNESDAYS 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 |
|---|
| January 8, 2020 |
Michael Wallace |
Measurement Error and Precision Medicine |
| January 15, 2020 |
Michele Santacatterina |
Kernel Optimal Orthogonality Weighting: A Balancing Approach to Estimating Effects of Continuous Treatments |
| January 22, 2020 |
Juliana Schulz |
Doubly Robust Estimation of Optimal Dosing Strategies
|
NO BIOS Seminar
January 29, 2020 |
REPLACED
FRIDAY JAN 31
Ana-Maria Staicu
CRM Coloque at HEC |
Longitudinal Functional Regression: Tests of Significance |
| February 5, 2020 |
Timothy Evans |
Harnessing AI for Global Health: Opportunities and Obstacles |
| February 12, 2020 |
Denis Talbot |
Confounding Adjustment for Multi-Level Treatment Comparisons under Lack of Positivity and Unknown Model Specification |
| February 19, 2020 |
David Campbell |
Overcoming Statistical Challenges from Multimodal Likelihoods |
| February 26, 2020 |
Genviève Lefebvre |
Comparing Logistic and Log-Binomial Models for Causal Mediation Analyses of Binary Mediators and Rare Binary Outcomes: Moving Towards Exact Regression-Based Approaches |
| March 4, 2020 |
NO SEMINAR - STUDY WEEK |
| March 11, 20201 |
Paramita Saha Chaudhuri |
Monitoring with Repeatedly Measured Marker: Assessing Incremental Value of Additional Measurements |
| March 18, 2020 |
LeiLei Zeng |
Multistate Analysis from Cross-Sectional and Auxiliary Samples |
| March 25, 2020 |
Cindy Feng |
On Estimations and Diagnosis of Zero-Inflated Regression Models: Pitfalls and Potential Solutions |