Seminars are presented at 11:00 AM in the department conference room,
second floor of the Faculty Center (exceptions will be noted)
December 18, 2001
Richard J. Chappell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Departments of Statistics
and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin
Bivariate Survival Analysis
December 3, 2001 at 11:00 AM
Auditorium E101, U.T. School of Public Health
Robert W. Haley, M.D.
Professor, Epidemiology Division, Department of Internal Medicine
U.T. Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Anthrax as a Weapon of Bioterrorism
Based on 10 years of experience in infectious disease epidemiology at the CDC.
Presented through joint sponsorship with Rice University, Department of Statistics
and U. T. School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
December 3, 2001 at 4:00 PM
McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall, Rice University
Robert W. Haley, M.D.
Professor, Epidemiology Division, Department of Internal Medicine
U.T. Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
A Research Campaign to Understand the Gulf War Syndrome
Based on a 7-year research effort to understand the neurologic symptoms
that affected an estimated 100,000 of the 700,000 U.S., British, Canadian,
and Australian troops who served in the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
Presented through joint sponsorship with Rice University, Department of Statistics
and U. T. School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
November 20, 2001 at 2:00 PM
Jianwen Cai, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
School of Public Health
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Marginal Means/Rates Models for Multiple Type Recurrent Event Data
November 13, 2001
Michael A. Newton, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Departments of Statistics
and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin
A Network Model for Cancer Genome Abnormalities
October 30, 2001
Wenyaw Chan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biometry
The University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston
School of Public Health
Houston, TX
Uses of Stochastic Processes in Public Health
June 26, 2001
Jeffrey J. Gaynor, Ph.D.
Consulting Biostatistician
Miami, Florida
Refinement of Clinicopathologic Staging
for Localized Soft Tissue Sarcoma of the Extremity:
A Study of 423 Adults
May 25, 2001
Ming-Ying Leung, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Division of Mathematics and Statistics
The University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas
Searching for Clusters of Palindromes in DNA Sequences
May 22, 2001
Steven Piantadosi, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Methodologic Issues of Dose Finding in Cancer Trials
with Examples from Brain Tumor Trials
April 20, 2001
Li Hsu, Ph.D.
Division of Public Health Sciences
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington
On Dependence Estimation Between Correlated Failure Times:
An Application to Family Studies
April 20, 2001
Charles L. Kooperberg, Ph.D.
Division of Public Health Sciences
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Affiliated Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Logic Regression
March 20, 2001
Alan C Genz, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Mathematics, Washington State University
Pullman, Washington
Numerical Computation of Multivariate Probabilities
with Application to Multiple Comparison Problems
February 26, 2001
Peter Müller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences
Duke University
ANOVA on Random Functions
January 22, 2001
Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics
Instituto de Matemática e Estatística da USP
Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Test of Significance: Full Bayesian Approach
January 19, 2001
Dalene Stangl, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of the Practice of Statistics and Public Policy
Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences
Duke University
Returning to the Big Picture in the Practice of Bayesian Biostatistics
January 19, 2001
Lemuel A. Moyé, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biometry
The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
School of Public Health
Plausible Prior and Loss Functions
January 18, 2001
Giovanni Parmigiani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Oncology
Department of Pathology and Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Case Studies on Decision Analysis: The Role of Axillary Lymph Node Dissection
in Early Breast Cancer
January 17 & 18, 2001
Bradley Carlin, Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
WinBUGS Tutorial I: Examples on Longitudinal, Disease Mapping and Spatial Data Misalignment
WinBUGS Tutorial II: Case Studies
January 16 & 18, 2001
Scott M. Berry, Ph.D.
Statistical Scientist, Berry Consultants
Hierarchical Modeling, Using Historical Data, and Handling Multiplicities
Meta-analysis and Drug Development
January 16, 2001
Telba Z. Irony, Ph.D.
Mathematical Statistician, Division of Biostatistics
Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Food and Drug Administration
FDA Issues and the Bayesian Framework
November 14, 2000
Geoffrey J. McLachlan, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Professor of Statistics, University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
Variants of the EM Algorithm for Large Data Sets
November 13, 2000
Richard M. Simon, D.Sc.
Chief, Biometric Research Branch
Head, Section of Molecular Statistics and Bioinformatics
National Cancer Institute
Statistical Analysis of DNA Microarray Data
November 9, 2000
Geoffrey J. McLachlan, Ph.D., D. Sc.
Professor of Statistics, University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
Role of Mixture Models in Survival Analysis
Last updated: November 29, 2001
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