Seminars 2011
Wednesday November 30, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 33-105A.
Onyebuchi A. Arah, MD, MSc, MPH, DSc, PhD
Department of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health
"Multiply Robust Estimation of Causal Effects", See Flyer.
Wednesday November 16, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 33-105A.
W. John Boscardin, PhD
Depts of Medicine and Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UC San Francisco
"Six of one, half‐dozen the other: in practice, many models fit the data equally well", See Flyer.
Wednesday November 9, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 33-105A.
Loki Natarajan, PhD
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, UC San Diego
"Statistical Tests for the Intersection of Independent Gene Lists", See Flyer.
Wednesday November 2, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 33-105A.
Daniel L. Gillen, PhD
Department of Statistics, UC Irvine
"Random split‐times for flexibly modeling nonproportional hazards covariate effects", See Flyer.
Wednesday October 19, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 33-105A.
Kim Siegmund, PhD
Department of Preventive Medicine, USC
"Correcting for background fluorescence on Illumina DNA methylation microarrays", See Flyer.
Wednesday October 12, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 33-105A.
Dimitris Politis, PhD
Department of Mathematics, UC San Diego
"Model‐free Model‐fitting and Predictive Distributions", See Flyer.
Wednesday October 5, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 33-105A.
James Flegal, PhD
Department of Statistics, UC Riverside
"Expectation and Quantile Estimation via Markov Chain Monte Carlo", See Flyer.
Monday September 26, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. Gonda 1357.
Xiaowei Yang, PhD
Department of Biostatistics, UC Davis
"Bayesian Strategies for Profiling Care Providers in California Conducting Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgeries", See Flyer.
Wednesday June 1, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 43-105A.
Tom Belin, PhD
Department of Biostatistics, UCLA
"Using a Density-Variation/Compactness Measure to Evaluate Redistricting Plans for Partisans and Electoral Responsiveness", See Flyer.
Wednesday May 18, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 43-105A.
Debbie Street
Department of Statistics, University of Technology in Sydney, Australia
"Discrete Choice Designs for Studying Preferences for Contraceptive Products"
Wednesday May 11, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 43-105A.
Steve Snapinn, PhD
Vice President, Global Biostatistical Science, Amgen
"Assessing a Causal Effect on a Variable Associated With an Incident Event", See Flyer.
Wednesday May 4, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 43-105A.
Richard Scheines, PhD
Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon
"Causal Discovery from Sequences of Experiments", See Flyer.
Wednesday April 20, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 43-105A.
David Siegmund, PhD
Department of Statistics, Stanford University
"False Discovery Rate and Association Analyses of Scan Statistics", See Flyer.
Wednesday April 13, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 43-105A.
Steven Piantadosi, MD, PhD
Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
"Methodological Issues in Early Developmental Clinical Trials", See Flyer.
Wednesday April 6, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 43-105A.
Larry Goldstein, PhD
Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California
"Cohort Studies with Complex Sampling", See Flyer.
Wednesday March 30, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 43-105A.
Mark S. Handcock, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
"Modeling social networks when data is missing or sampled", See Flyer.
Wednesday March 2, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 13-105A.
Nathaniel Schenker, PhD
Associate Director for Research and Methodology, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"Estimating Standard Errors for Life Expectancies Based on Complex Survey Data with Mortality Follow-Up: A Case Study Using the National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality Files", See Flyer.
Wednesday February 16, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 13-105A.
Ron Brookmeyer, PhD
Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles
"Estimating HIV Incidence: Statistical Approaches and Issues", See Flyer.
Wednesday February 2, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 13-105A.
Vladimir Minin, PhD.
Department of Statistics, University of Washington
"Experiments with Imputation Estimators Under Model Misspecification", See Flyer.
Wednesday January 26, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 13-105A.
Christine L. Borgman, PhD.
Professor and Presidential Chair in Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
"When do Observations Become Data? Lessons from Sensor Networks and Environmental Sciences", See Flyer.
Wednesday January 19, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 13-105A.
Keumhee Carriere Chough, PhD.
Professor of Statistics, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta
"Response-Adaptive Repeated Measurement Designs for Clinical Trials", See Flyer.
Wednesday January 12, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 13-105A.
Peter Bickel, PhD.
Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
"Some Examples of Statistical Inference in Genomics", See Flyer.
Wednesday January 5, 2011, 3:30pm-4:30pm. CHS 13-105A.
Ofer Harel, PhD.
University of Connecticut
"Inferences on Missing Information Under Multiple Imputation", See Flyer.