Biostatistics

UMDNJ - School of Public Health

Journal Club Seminars

2008


Journal Club Seminars were organized by: Dr. Junfeng Liu , 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 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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