Previous Biostatistics Seminars
Winter 2020, BST 290
This Winter quarter, the Biostatistics Graduate Group is holding its seminar series on TUESDAYS at 12:10pm. They will take place in Math Sciences Building (MSB) 1147.
The BST 290 seminar organizer is Shuai Chen. To register for BST 290 please use the CRN 47833. You may register for 1 unit; registering for 2 units requires authorization from the instructors.
Syllabus
The syllabus for Winter 2019 is as follows:
Instructors: Shuai Chen
Instructor email: shschen@ucdavis.edu
Time: Tuesdays 12:10-1:00pm from January 7 to March 10, 2020
Location: MSB 1147 (Colloquium room)
Description: BST 290 is a seminar series intended to introduce biostatistics graduate students to a diversity of current research topics and applications of biostatistics. During this course, students will gain experience presenting and discussing methodological research in biostatistics and will also learn how to critically appraise the scientific and technical merit of published studies in research areas where statistical methods are applied. This lunch-time seminar will offer an informal setting for biostatistics graduate students to discuss topics of importance to them with one another and with other statistical and subject-matter experts, and thus gain practical experience and confidence with the communication formats commonly encountered by biostatisticians practicing in contemporary, research-intensive, multi-disciplinary settings.
Student responsibilities: To receive credit, students must attend and actively participate in all sessions, and each student must lead or co-lead at least one of the sessions. Attendance is recorded by signing the roster. Students who do not make up missed sessions or miss more than one sessionwill receive an incomplete. Out of respect for the speakers, students should not be working on their laptops or other electronic devices during the sessions, except to take notes or to check facts pertinent to the presentation.
Topics: Doctoral students are strongly encouraged to present on their own dissertation research or GSR research, in order to take advantage of the constructive and supportive advice that we aim to foster in this seminar. Other students are encouraged to present an analysis performed for an internship, independent study, GSR, or other work; however, students may not present an analysis performed for a class homework assignment. First-year students without an analysis to present may choose a topic from the list below or consult with the instructors for other ideas.
Sample sessions:
- One or two research presentations may be given by faculty members or invited speakers, organized by the faculty instructors with input of the students, as appropriate.
- Potential topics for student-led sessions include:
- Possible career paths: academia (biostatistics vs. statistics departments), government, industry, etc.
- Student research presentations, for which one or two students present on their research projects (either dissertation or GSR research). These may be practice talks conducted prior to presenting at professional conferences or qualifying exams or less formal presentations to exchange ideas or discuss statistical challenges during their research or data analysis. We encourage doctoral students to present at least once per year.
- Review of a journal article on current areas of biostatistics research. This is meant to provide a broad spectrum of potential research topics and perspectives.
- Discussion on how to choose an advisor or dissertation topic.
- Cultural or political topics involving statistics, including the misuse of statistics in scientific research and controversial research in medicine, climate science, global health, etc.
- Ethical/moral issues that biostatisticians face.
- What makes a good biostatistician?
- Other topics of interest to GGB students, to be identified at first session.
If you wish to be added to the Statistics and Biostatistics seminar e-mail list, please contact Sarah Driver (sbdriver@ucdavis.edu)
Winter 2019, BST 290
Public Seminars: Tuesdays, 12:10pm, MSB 1147
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title |
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January 8th |
Wei-Kuang Lin Shuai Sun |
UC Davis |
Lin: Analysis of Arabidopsis Root Traits Using Bayesian Sparse Factor Mixed Model Sun: Smartphone Technology for Enhancing Early Psychosis Treatment |
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January 15th |
Shizhe Chen, PhD | UC Davis | Online Experiment Design for Mapping Large-scale Neural Circuits |
| January 22nd |
Heejung Bang, PhD Jeff Hoch, PhD |
UC Davis | Cost & Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in 2019: From Statistician's and Health Economist's Perspective |
| January 29th | Mi-Ok Kim, PhD | UCSF | Propensity Score Matching for Clustered Data |
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February 5th |
Bryan Shephard, PhD |
Vanderbilt University | Correcting for Errors in Variables Derived from Electronic Health Records Using Validation Sampling and Multiple Imputation |
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February 12th |
Gerald Quon, PhD |
UC Davis | Deep Learning for Single Cell Genomics |
| February 19th | Denneal Jamison-McClung, PhD | UC Davis | Introduce DEB (DESIGNATED EMPHASIS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY) Program |
| February 26th | Diana Miglioretti, PhD | UC Davis | Risk-Stratified Breast Cancer Screening |
| March 5th | Manju John, PhD | Northwell Health | Nonparametrically Estimating Dynamic Bivariate Correlation Using Visibility Graph Algorithm |
| March 12th | Jeffrey Blume, PhD | Vanderbilt University |
An Introduction to Second-Generation P-Values: Leveraging science to Improve Statistics LOCATION: Gladys Valley Hall 1047 |
Spring 2016
| DATE | SEMINAR SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | TITLE |
| Tue Apr 5, 4:10pm | Robert L. Obenchain | Risk Benefit Statistics LLC |
"“Fair” Treatment Comparisons for Continuous Exposures" - ABSTRACT |
| Tue Apr 12, 4:10pm | Gerald Quon | Dept Molecular & Cellular Biology, UC Davis | "Models for interpreting heterogeneous genomic data: from gene expression deconvolution to GWAS variant interpretation" - ABSTRACT |
| Tue, Apr 26, 4:10pm *MSB 1147* | Shasha Jumbe | Gates Foundation | “Precision Public Health: Precision Targeting of Prevention and Therapeutic Interventions in vulnerable populations” - ABSTRACT |
| Tue, May 3, 4:10pm | John Halloran | University of Washington | "Graphical Models for Peptide Identification of Tandem Mass Spectra" - ABSTRACT |
| Tue, May 10, 4:10pm | Magdalena Cerdá | Dept Emergency Medicine, UC Davis | ... |
Winter 2016, BST 290
The Seminar organizers for Winter 2016 were Diana Miglioretti and Daniel Tancredi.
| DATE | SEMINAR SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | TITLE |
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Tue Jan 5, 4:10pm |
Weijie Su | Stanford University | "Multiple Testing and Adaptive Estimation via the Sorted L-One Norm" - ABSTRACT (links to Stats website) |
| Tue Jan 12, 4:10pm | Mariana Olvera-Cravioto | Columbia University | "Efficient simulation for weighted branching trees" - ABSTRACT (links to Stats website) |
| Tue Jan 19, 4:10pm | Can Le | University of Michigan | "Structure of sparse random networks" - ABSTRACT (links to Stats website) |
| Mon Feb 1, 12:00pm *2411 Tupper Hall* | Yolanda Hagar | Univ Colorado, Boulder | "Modeling of long-term survival outcomes" - ABSTRACT |
| Tue Feb 2, 4:10pm | Sayan Mukherjee | Duke University | "Inference and dynamics" - ABSTRACT (links to Stats website) |
| Mon Feb 8, 12:00pm *MedSci1C, rm 130* | John Muschelli | Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Consulting Center | "Computational Methods for Neuroimaging in R: Stroke Hemorrhage in X-ray Computed Tomography Scanning" - ABSTRACT (pdf) |
| Tue Feb 16, 4:10pm | Yuqing Zhang | Boston University | "What effect is really being measured? Challenges in studying risk factors for disease sequelae." - ABSTRACT |
| Mon, Feb 22, 12:00pm *MedSci1C, rm 130* | Miriam Nuno | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
"Outcomes and Quality of Care in Neurosurgical Patients" - ABSTRACT (pdf) |
| Tue Feb 23, 4:10pm | Caleb Miles | UC Berkeley |
“A class if semiparametric tests of treatment effect robust to measurement error of a confounder” - ABSTRACT |
Fall 2015, BST 290
Seminar organizers: Diana Miglioretti and Daniel Tancredi
| DATE | SEMINAR SPEAKER | INSTITUTION | TITLE |
| Daniel Tancredi | Pediatrics, UC Davis School of Medicine | "Practical Considerations for Sample Size Calculations in Clinical Research" | |
| Oct 27, 4:10pm | Jonathan Schildcrout | Dept Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University | "Outcome related sampling designs for longitudinal binary data with application to spirometry-based COPD diagnosis" |
| Nov 3, 4:10pm | Diana Miglioretti | Public Health Sciences, UC Davis | "Radiation-Induced Breast Cancer Incidence and Mortality from Digital Mammography Screening: A Modeling Study" |
| Nov 10, 4:10pm | Daniel E. Runcie | Plant Sciences, UC Davis | "Bayesian methods for studying the genetics of high dimensional traits" |
| Nov 17, 4:10pm | Daniel Tancredi | Pediatrics, UC Davis School of Medicine | "Advice to statistical consultants contributing and evaluating evidence for a nutrition intervention" |
| Dec 1, 4:10pm | Chris Drake | Statistics, UC Davis | "Non-ignorable non-response, random subsets of non-respondents and combined odds ratios" |
Spring 2015, BST 290
The Seminar organizers are Prof. Danielle Harvey and Prof. Diana Miglioretti.
APRIL 2015
Friday/Saturday April 10/11: UC Davis Statistical Sciences Symposium 2015
"Network Data: Information and Sciences" - Please see http://www.stat.ucdavis.edu/symposium2015/ to register for this event
Location: Buehler Alumni Center,
Tuesday April 14, 4:10pm, (Location: MSB 1147), BST 290
SPEAKER: Bryan Langholz, Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California
TITLE: "An introduction to the design and analysis of nested case-control studies"
ABSTRACT
Tuesday April 21, 4:10pm (Location: MSB 1147), BST 290
SPEAKER: Annette Molinaro, Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery and Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC San Francisco
TITLE: "Tree derived Survival risk groups in differentiating care for glioma patients"
ABSTRACT
Thursday April 23, 4:10pm, JOINT SEMINAR WITH ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION (Location 1100 Social Sicences & Humanities), BST 290
SPEAKER: Perry de Valpine, UC Berkeley
TITLE "From stage-structured population models to computational statistics"
Thursday May 7, 4:10pm, (Location MSB 1143 - Statistics Seminar Room), BST 290
SPEAKER: Titus Brown, Associate Professor, Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis
TITLE: "A data-intensive future: how can biology best take advantage of the coming data deluge?"
ABSTRACT
MAY 2015
Tuesday May 12, 4:10pm (Location: MSB 1147), BST 290
SPEAKER: Bruce Rannala, Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolution
TITLE: "Bayesian species delimitation and species tree inference using genome sequence data"
ABSTRACT
Tuesday May 12, 4:10pm (Location: MSB 1147), BST 290
Speaker: Abhyuday Mandal (University of Georgia, Athens)
Title: "Optimal Design of Experiments for Generalized Linear Models"
ABSTRACT
Winter 2015, BST 290
Seminar organizer: Danielle Harvey.
JANUARY 2015
Monday January 5, 4:10pm (Location: MSB 1143), STA/BST 290
Speaker: Yuekai Sun (Stanford University)
Title: "A one-shot approach to distributed sparse regression"
ABSTRACT
Tuesday January 6, 4:30pm (Location: MSB 1147), STA/BST 290
Speaker: Yehua Li (Iowa State University)
Title: "Functional Principal Component Analysis of Spatial-Temporal Point Processes with Applications in Disease Surveillance"
ABSTRACT
Wednesday January 7, 4:10pm (Location: MSB 1143), STA/BST 290
Speaker: Xiaodong Li (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: "Low-rank recovery: from convex to nonconvex methods"
ABSTRACT
Thursday January 8, 4:10pm (Location: MSB 1147), STA/BST 290
Speaker: Irina Gaynanova (Cornell University)
Title: "Multi-group classification via sparse discriminantanalysis"
ABSTRACT
Monday January 12, 2:30pm (Location: MSB 1143), STA/BST 290
Speaker: Anru Zhang (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: "High-dimensional low-rank matrix recovery"
ABSTRACT (note: links to Statistics Dept site)
Tuesday January 13, 4:10pm (Location: MSB 1147), STA/BST 290
Speaker: Tanya Garcia (Texas A&M University)
Title: "Robust mixed-effects model for clustered failure time data: application to Huntington's disease event measures"
ABSTRACT (note: links to Statistics Dept site)
Wednesday January 14, 2:30pm (Location: MSB 1143), STA/BST 290
Speaker: Mikyoung Jun (Texas A&M University)
Title: "Some models for spatial-temporal processes on the globe"
ABSTRACT (note: links to Statistics Dept site)
Thursday January 15, 4:30pm (Location: MSB 1147), STA/BST 290
Speaker: Hui Zou (University of Minnesota)
Title: "Computable Oracle Optimality of Folded Concave Penalized Estimation"
ABSTRACT (note: links to Statistics Dept site)
Friday January 16, 4:10pm (Location: MSB 1147), STA/BST 290
Speaker: Johann Gagnon-Bartsch (UC Berkeley)
Title: "Removing Unwanted Variation with Negative Controls"
ABSTRACT (note: links to Statistics Dept site)
Tuesday January 20, 4:10pm (Location: MSB 1147), STA/BST 290
Speaker: James Sharpnack (UC San Diego)
Title: "Testing for Structured Normal Means"
ABSTRACT (note: links to Statistics Dept site)
Wednesday January 21, 2:30pm (Location: MSB 1143), STA/BST 290
Speaker: Rachel Wang (UC Berkeley)
Title: "Problems in network modeling: inferring edges and community detection"
ABSTRACT (note: links to Statistics Dept site)
Thursday January 22, 4:10pm (Location: Gieft Hall, room 1003), Joint seminar with Evolution & Ecology
Speaker: Steve Munch (UC Berkeley)
Title: "Towards model-free ecosystem management"
Abstract unavailable
Monday January 26, 2:30pm (Location: MSB 1143), STA/BST 290
Speaker: Guang Cheng (Purdue University)
Title: "Semi-Nonparametric Inference for Massive Data"
ABSTRACT (note: links to Statistics Dept site)
Tuesday January 27, 4:10pm (Location: MSB 1147), STA/BST 290
Speaker: Jascha Sohl-Dickstein (Stanford University)
Title: "Training and Manipulating Large Scale Probabilistic Models"
ABSTRACT (note: links to Statistics Dept site)
FEBRUARY 2015
No seminars in February.
MARCH 2015
Tuesday March 3, 4:10pm (Location: MSB 2112, Math Dept), BST 290
Speaker: Rebecca Hubbard (Dept Biostatistics & Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania)
Title: "Sources of variability and error in ranking and classification of healthcare providers"
ABSTRACT
Tuesday March 10, 4:10pm (Location: MSB 1147), BST 290
Speaker: Lihong Qi (Dept Public Health Sciences, UC Davis)
Title: "A Comparison of Multiple Imputation via Chained Equations and General Location Model for Accelerated Failure Time Models with Missing Covariates"
ABSTRACT
Fall 2014, BST 290
Seminar organizer: Danielle Harvey.
October 21, 2014
Speaker: David Rocke, Distinguished Professor, Dept of Public Health Sciences
Title: "Statistical Issues in the Analysis of Data from RNA-Seq Experiments"
Click here for the abstract
October 28, 2014
Speaker: Sebastien Haneuse, Associate Professor, Dept of Biostatistics, Harvard
Title: "On the analysis of clustered semi-competing risks data"
Click here for the abstract
November 4, 2014
Speaker: Sebastian Hohna, Post-doctoral fellow, Dept of Evolution & Ecology, UC Davis
Title: "Estimating mass-extinction events from molecular phylogenies and joint Bayesian inference of phylogeny, diversification rates and divergence times"
Click here for the abstract
November 18, 2014
Speaker: Michael Donohue, Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics, UC San Diego
Title: "Modeling long-term disease progression"
Click here for the abstract
December 2, 2014
Location: 3106 Math Sciences Building
Speaker: John Kornak, Associate Professor, Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC San Francisco
Title: "Bayesian image analysis in Fourier space, with applications in medical imaging"
Click here for the abstract
Spring 2014, BST 290
Seminar organizer: Jiming Jiang
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Tuesday April 22nd, 4:10pm (Joint STA/BST 290 Seminar) |
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SPEAKER |
Weng Kee Wong, UCLA |
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"Using Animal Instincts to Find Efficient Experimental Designs" |
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Tuesday May 6th, 4:10pm (Joint STA/BST 290 Seminar) **Location: Multipurpose Room, Student Commuity Center UC Davis** |
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SPEAKER |
Iain Johnstone, Stanford University |
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"Random matrices in statistics: testing in spiked models" |
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Tuesday May 13th, 4:10pm |
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SPEAKER |
Elizabeth Purdom, UC Berkeley |
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TITLE |
"Shrinkage of Dispersion Estimates for Analysis of Exon Usage from mRNA-Seq data" |
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Tuesday May 20th, 4:10pm |
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SPEAKER |
Danielle Harvey, Public Health Sciences, UC Davis |
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"Standardized statistical framework for comparison of biomarkers: techniques from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative" |
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Tuesday May 27th, 4:10pm **LOCATION: MSB 1143** |
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SPEAKER |
Hao Chen, Statistics, UC Davis |
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"Allele-specific copy number profiling by next-generation DNA sequencing" |
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Tuesday June 3rd, 4:10pm |
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SPEAKER |
Yu-Ru Su, Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center |
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TITLE |
"Hypothesis testing for functional linear models with scalar responses" |
Winter 2014, BST 290
Seminar organizer: Hao Chen. CRN : 25602.
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Tuesday January 7th, 4:10pm (note: STA/BST 290 Seminar) |
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SPEAKER |
Arash Amini, Univ. Michigan |
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"Pseudo-likelihood methods for community detection in large sparse networks" ABSTRACT (links to Statistics website) |
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Thursday January 16th, 4:10pm (note: STA/BST 290 Seminar) |
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SPEAKER |
Quentin Berthet, Univ. Princeton |
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"Statistical and computational tradeoffs in high-dimensional learning" ABSTRACT (links to Statistics website) |
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Tuesday January 21st, 4:10pm (note: STA/BST 290 Seminar) |
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SPEAKER |
Susan Wei, UNC Chapel Hill |
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"Latent supervised learning" ABSTRACT (links to Statistics website) |
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Tuesday January 28th, 4:10pm (note: STA/BST 290 Seminar) |
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SPEAKER |
Yunzhang Zhu Univ Minnesota |
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"Estimation over multiple undirected graphs" ABSTRACT (links to Statistics website) |
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Tuesday February 4th, 4:10pm (note: STA/BST 290 Seminar) |
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SPEAKER |
Yanyuan Ma, Texas A&M University |
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"A Semiparametric View to Dimension Reduction: Estimation, Inference and Efficiency" ABSTRACT (links to Statistics website) |
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Tuesday February 11th, 4:10pm |
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SPEAKER |
Hanlee Ji, Division of Oncology, Stanford University |
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"Deconvoluting Complex Genetic Mixtures with Next Generation DNA Sequencing: Clinical Relevance and Implications in Human Disease and Forensics" |
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Tuesday February 18th, 4:10pm |
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SPEAKER |
Laurel Beckett, Division of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, UC Davis |
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"Mixture models for sequences based on censored data" |
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Tuesday March 4th, 4:10pm |
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SPEAKER |
Guoping Fan, Human Genetics, UCLA |
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"Insights into Transcriptome Dynamics in pre-implantation embryos as well as naïve and primed embryonic stem cells" |
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Tuesday March 11th, 4:10pm |
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SPEAKER |
Hua Tang, Genetics, Stanford University |
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"Learning genetic architecture of complex traits across populations" |
Fall 2013, BST 290
The Graduate Group in Biostatistics is presenting a series of seminars on select Tuesdays at 4:10pm for the Fall 2013 quarter.The seminars will take place in Math Sciences Building 1147 (Colloquium Room).
The Seminar organizer is Prof. Lihong Qi. The CRN is 25602.
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Tuesday October 8th, 4:10pm |
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SPEAKER |
Minggen Lu, Univ. Nevada, Reno |
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"Spline estimation of partially linear poisson single-index models and its application to environmental health" |
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Tuesday October 15th, 4:10pm |
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SPEAKER |
Paul Rathouz, Univ. Wisconsin |
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TITLE |
"Semiparametric generalized linear models" |
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Tuesday October 29th, 4:10pm |
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SPEAKER |
Haiyan Huang, UC Berkeley |
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"Identifying gene interactions using sparse canonical correlation analysis with resampling" |
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Tuesday November 12th, 4:10pm |
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SPEAKER |
Ross Prentice, Univ. Washington / Fred Hutchunson Cancer Research Center |
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"The Women’s Health Initiative: history, contributions and on-going research" |
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Monday November 18th, 4:00pm * |
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SPEAKER |
Jamie Robins, Harvard University |
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"Counterfactuals, causal models and SWIGS" |
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*Joint seminar with Graduate Group in Epidemiology; location Valley Hall 1020 |
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Tuesday December 3rd, 4:10pm ** |
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SPEAKER |
Deepak Agarwal, LinkedIn |
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"Response prediction for computational advertising applications" |
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**Joint seminar with Statistics |
List of Biostatistics Seminars, Spring 2013
April 2, 2013
Speaker:Keith Widaman, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, UC Davis
Title: "Distinguishing ordinal and disordinal interactions – with application to gene X environment interaction studies"
Click Here for Abstract
April 16, 2013
Speaker: Susan Stewart, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, UC Davis
Title: “Assessing the effect of liver cancer screening on survival among patients with chronic hepatitis B”
Click Here for Abstract
April 30, 2013
Location: 1047 Gladys Valley Hall
Speaker: Chris Barker, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Vectorborne Diseases, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis
Click Here for Abstract
May 14, 2013
Speaker: Daniel Tancredi, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, UC Davis
Title:"Practical considerations for sample size calculations in clinical research"
Click Here for Abstract
May 28, 2013
Speaker: Heejung Bang, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, UC Davis
Title: “Bias Correction Methods for Misclassified Covariates in the Cox Model: Comparison of Five Correction Methods by Simulation and Data Analysis”
Click Here for Abstract
To see the list of Statistics (STA/BST 290) Seminars for this quarter, please visit: http://www.stat.ucdavis.edu/seminars/
For all previous BST 290 Seminars (which were cross-listed with STA 290) please visit the Seminar library at: http://stat.ucdavis.edu/seminars/recent-seminar-abstracts