2012

Fall 2012

September 4 at 2 p.m.
Hess Commons

"A Semiparametric Approach to Dimension Reduction"   
Yanyuan Ma, PhD
Professor, Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
Hosted by: Ying Wei, PhD

September 6 at 3:45 p.m.
Hess Commons

"Inference After Model Selection"     
Eric Laber, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
NC State University
Hosted by: Bibhas Chakraborty, PhD

September 20 at 3:45 p.m.
Hess Commons

"Chapters from Classic Problems of Probability"      
Prakash Gorroochurn, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Columbia University

October 4 at 3:45 p.m.
Biostatistics Computer Lab

"Efficient Estimation for Time-Varying Coefficient Longitudinal Models"   
Zhibiao Zhao, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Penn State University
Hosted by: Ying Wei, PhD

October 18 at 3:45 p.m.
Hess Commons

"Towards Patient-Centered Network Meta-analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials with Binary Outcomes: Reporting the Proper Summaries"     
Haitao Chu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
Hosted by: Shuang Wang, PhD

October 23 at 2:30 p.m.
Multipurpose Room, Room 6002, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Drive

"The Importance of Reproducibility in High-Throughput Biology: Case Studies in Forensic Bioinformatics"     
Keith Baggerly, PhD
Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Division of Quantitative Sciences
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Hosted by: Todd Ogden, PhD

October 25 at 3:45 p.m.
Hess Commons

"Bayes and Multiple Imputation for Assay Data Subject to Measurement Error"     
Roderick J. Little, PhD
Richard D. Remington Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics
Professor, Department of Statistics
Research Professor, Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Hosted by: Qixuan Chen, PhD

November 8 at 3:45 p.m.
Biostatistics Computer Lab

"Local Bilinear Multiple-Output Quantile Regression: from L1 Optimization to Regression Depth"     Marc Hallin, PhD
Professor, European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics, Belgium
Visiting Senior Research Scholar, Princeton University
Hosted by: Ian McKeague, PhD

November 29 at 3:45 p.m.
Hess Commons

"Sparse Functional Data with an Irregular Cyclical Component: An Application to Psychiatric Data"
Catherine Ann Sugar, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
University of California Los Angeles
Hosted by: Yuanjia Wang, PhD

December 6 at 3:45 p.m.
Hess Commons

"Semiparametric Composite Likelihood Methods for Analysis of Clustered Data"     
Wenqing He, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences
University of Western Ontario, Canada
Hosted by: Zhezhen Jin, PhD

December 13 at 3:45 p.m.
Biostatistics Computer Lab

"Designing an Observational Study to be Less Sensitive to Unmeasured Biases: Effect of the 2010 Chilean Earthquake on Posttraumatic Stress"     
Jose Zubizarreta
PhD candidate, the Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania