January 25
Dirk Moore, PhD
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Associate Professor, Biostatistics Department
Title: Instrument variable analysis, hormone therapy, and prostate cancer survival
February 8
Susan Huyck
UMDNJ- School of Public Health
PhD Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Nonlinear Mixed Models - Brief Introduction and Overview
Yen-Hong Kuo
UMDNJ- School of Public Health
PhD Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Effect of Categorizing a Continuous Variable on the Parameter Estimation
February 22
Cheongeun Oh
UMDNJ- School of Public Health
Assistant Professor, Quantitative Methods Department
Title: Bayesian Genome-Wide Screening
March 7
Jing Gong
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
PhD Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Fitting semiparametric random effects models to large data sets
Fang Fang
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
PhD Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Flexible sample size designs – A literature review and evaluation of adaptability
March 28
Liping Huang
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
DrPh Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Tree-Structured Subgroup Analysis for Censored Survival Data
Yuhui Ma
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
PhD Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Accelerated Titration Designs for Phase I Clinical Trials in Oncology – A brief literature review
Urvi Gandhi
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
MS Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Effects of Weighting and Clustering in Complex Survey Data
April 11
Junfeng Liu, PhD
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics Department
Title: A Simple Method for Screening Binary Models with Large Sample Size and Continuous Predictor Variables
April 25
Zailong Wang, PhD
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Clinical Science Information Department
Senior Principal Biostatistician
Title: Longitudinal data analysis strategies: an application of mixed model to post-transplant
serum creatinine data
May 9
John E. Kolassa, PhD
Department of Statistics, Rutgers University
Associate Professor of Statistics
Title: Small Sample Confidence Regions in Exponential Families
May 23
Margaret Gorlin
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
PhD Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Summarizing the predictive power of a generalized linear model, a paper by B Zheng and A Agresti, 2000
Gaohong Dong
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
PhD Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Two- stage design for Phase II studies (literature review and discussion on future work)
Yuhui Ma
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
DrPH Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Using baseline data to design a group randomized trial
May 30
Michael Brimacombe, PhD
New Jersey Medical School and School of Public Health-Newark
Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine & Community Health
Title: Likelihood Functions as Functions
June 3
David M. Smith, PhD
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Expert Statistical Methodologist
Title: Extended Poisson Process Modeling of Dilution Series Data
SUMMER RECESS: JUNE-AUGUST
September 12
Shou-En Lu, PhD
UMDNJ- School of Public Health
Associate Professor, Biostatistics Department
Title: Evaluation of Risk Equations Using C-Statistics, a nonparametric approach
September 26
Aiyang Tao
UMDNJ- School of Public Health
PhD Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Methods of Dose Finding for Phase II studies
Susan Huyck
UMDNJ- School of Public Health
PhD Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Benchmark Dose Identification
Yuhui Ma
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
DrPH Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Preliminary analysis on Area Under Curves
October 10
Yong Lin, PhD
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Associate Professor, Biostatistics Department
Title: Statistical Assessment of Synergistic Effect in Multiple Drug Combination - Model, Estimation and Inference
October 24
Gaohong Dong
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
PhD Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Statistical evaluation of Benefit:Risk (Literature review)
Liping Huang
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
DrPh Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Marginal Structural Models and Causal Inference in Epidemiology
Pin-Wen Wang
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
PhD Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Decision rules for group sequential designs
October 31
Weili He, PhD
Merck & Co., Inc.
Associate Director in Clinical Biostatistics
Title: Selecting the Optimal Dose using Bayesian Decision Analysis
November 14
Yujun Wu, PhD
Sanofi-Aventis
Biostatician, Biostatistics and Programming
Title: Approaches to Handling Data When a Phase II Trial Deviates from the Pre-specified Simon's Two-Stage Design
November 21
Anjun Cao
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
PhD Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Instrumental Variables in Observational Studies
Shiansong (Jack) Li
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
DrPh Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Drug Combinations in Cardiovascular Disease
Yu (Henry) Wu
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
PhD Student, Biostatistics Department
Title: Cure Rate Model - A Literature Review
November 24
Sining Chen, PhD
John Hopkins School of Public Health
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences & Department of Biostatistics
Title: Risk Prediction in Hereditary Cancer Syndromes
December 12
Pamela Ohman Strickland, PhD
UMDNJ-School of Public Health
Associate Professor, Biostatistics Department
Title: Extension of the beta-binomial model to account for baseline in analysis of binary outcomes from cluster randomized trials
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