Biostatistics

UMDNJ - School of Public Health

Journal Club Seminars

2007


Journal Club Seminars were organized by Dr. Yujun Wu , Ph.D.

Location:

UMDNJ - School of Public Health
683 Hoes Lane West
3rd Floor - Room 3A (most seminars)
Piscataway, NJ 08854

Schedule:

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM (most seminars)

January 26

Zhaoling Men
Sanofi-aventis
Title: Sufficient Tumor Classification by Condensing Highly Correlated
Data Structure and Differentially Minimizing Misclassification

February 9

Dirk Moore, PhD
Associate Professor, UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Title: Modeling longitudinal count data using a composite
likelihood based on a bivariate Poisson-gamma distribution

February 23

Xinyang Cao
PhD Student, UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Title: Zero-Inflated Binomial Models for Triplets Data

Jing Gong
PhD Student, UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Title:Generalized linear mixed models: Pseudo-Likelihood Estimation

March 9

Pamela Ohman-Strickland, PhD
Associate Professor, UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Title:Conditional Odds Ratios for Ordinal Outcomes using Estimating Equations

March 23

Irving K. Hwang, PhD
Adjunct Professor, UMDNJ- School of Public Helath
President Irving Consulting Group
Title: The art of sample size estimation in confirmatory trials-revisited

April 13

Hui Quan, PhD
Adjunct Professor, UMDNJ- School of Public Helath
Director, Biostatistics and Programming- Sanofi-Aventis
Title: Analysis of a Binary Composite Endpoint with Missing Data in Components

April 20

Liping Huang
MS Student, UMDNJ-School of Public Health-Biostatistics Department
Title: Using Zero-Inflated and Hurdle Models to Analyze Count Data with Many
Zeros for Modeling Hospitalization Events among Patients with Rheumatoid
Arthritis

April 27

Chiung-Yu Huang, PhD
Biostatistics Research Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Title: Semiparametric analysis for recurrent event data with informative censoring

May 11

Xiaohui (Edmond) Luo

Clicical Biostatistic, BARDS, Merck Research
Merck

Title: Noise Added Model Selection (NAMS)- A method based on information reduction strategy

June-August (Summer Recess)

September 14

Weichung ( Joe) Shih, PhD
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Chair and Professor of Biostatistics Department
Title: Group Sequential, sample size re-estimation and two-stage adaptive designs in clinical trials-A comparison

September 28

Yong Lin, PhD
UMDNJ- School of Public Health
Associate Professor, Biostatistics Department
Title: Parametric and Nonparametric Mixture Cure Model with Cure Partially Known

October 12

Pamela Ohman-Strickland, PhD
UMDNJ- School of Public Health
Associate Professor, Biostatistics Department
Title:
Modeling effectiveness of internally heterogeneous organizations in the presence ofsurvey non-response: An application to the ultra study

October 26

William (Bill) Mietlowsk, PhD
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Biometrical Fellow
Biostatistics and Statistical Reporting
Title:
Some statistical issues involving functional imaging in Oncology

November 9

Weili He, PhD
Merck & Co.
Associate Director
Clinical Biostatistics
Title:
Innovative Designs for Combination Studies

November 23

No Seminar- Thanksgiving Holiday

December 14

Aiyang Tao
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
PhD Student
Title: Analyzing data with excess zeros

John Oleynick
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
PhD Student
Title:Propensity Score Subclassification in Observational Studies

December 28

No Seminar- Happy Holidays

Winter Break

 

 

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