Spring/Winter 2012 Seminar Schedule
(Health Sciences Building, Room 790)

 

Date
Tuesday, 3-5pm


Speaker
 

Seminar Title

January 10

Wendy Lou

Career Pathway, Q&A

January 17

Wendy Lou

Biostatistics and Global Health

January 24

Rosane Nisenbaum
St Michael's Hospital

Systematic Random Sampling After Serpentine Ordering to Select Neighbourhoods in Toronto: the Neighbourhood Effects on Health and Well-Being (NEHW) Project

January 31

Tim Ramsay
University of Ottawa & Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Heterogeneity Bias in Logistic and Cox Regression

February 7

Siddik Keskan
Yuzuncu Yil University

Generalized Procrustes Analysis with an Application
February 14

 PhD Student Seminars
Billy Chang, Zengfei Chen, Lisa Le

BC: Functional-Network-based Gene Set Analysis using Gene-Ontology
ZC: Rieman Manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and Some Applications
LL: Overview of Predictability in  Competing Risk Models

February 21

Reading Week

Reading Week

February 28

PhD Student Seminars
Lutong Zhou, Laura Faye, Feng Zhao

LZ: Detecting Regions of Association between Gene Expression and Copy  Number Acoss Chromosome in Breast Cancer Microarray Data
LF: Re-ranking Sequencing Variants in the Post-GWAS Era
FZ: Weighting in Meta-Analysis Combining Odds Ratios

March 6

PhD Student Seminars
Kelvin Chan, Liz Li, Ying Qi

KC: Mapping of Quality of Life Measures to Health Utilities: Progression or Regression
LL:
Introduction to Evidential Analysis
YQ: On the Estimation of Nutrient Usual Intake Distribution

March 13

Neil Klar
University of Western Ontario

Issues in the Design and Analysis of Matched-Pair Cluster Randomization Trials

March 20
(rescheduled to April 3)

Victor Xie
Ryerson University

Wavelet Based Sparse Functional Linear Model with Applications to EEGs Seizure Detection and Epilepsy Diagnosis

March 27

 Michael Edwards
Everest Clinical Research Services Inc.

Meta-Analysis and the Reversed Theorem of the  Means

April 3
(rescheduled to September 2012)

Wendy Lou

Statistical Methods for Evaluating ED Interventions

April 10

Tim Guimond

When Recruitment in a Novel Recruitment Strategy Fails: Use of a Simulation Study to Explore Possible Solutions

April 17

Exam Week

Exam Week

     
May 22 Biostatistics Research Day Biostatistics Research Day
 




Fall 2011 Seminar Schedule
(Health Sciences Building, Room 790)

 

Date
Tuesday, 3-5pm


Speaker
 

Seminar Title

September 13

Wendy Lou

Introduction

September 20

Wendy Lou

Statistics and Stories

September 27

Wendy Lou

Biomedical Applications of Runs and Patters

October 4

Case Studies Team
Joanne Quan, Lutong Zhou

Determinants of the Presence and Volume of Brown Fat in Humans

October 11

Vicky Landsman
St. Michael's Hospital
 & NIH/NCI

Efficient Analysis of Case-Control Studies with Sample Weights (with Application to US Kidney Cancer Study)
October 18

Case Studies Team
Tim Guimond, Anky Lai,
Josh Murray, Kristen O'Brien

Sample Weights in Bayesian Regression, A Case Study

October 25

Special Student Seminar
Maggie Chen

Determining Optimal Sample Sizes for Multi-stage Randomized Clinical Trials from an Industry Perspective Using Value of Information Methods

November 1

Amparo Casanova
University of Toronto

Construction of Bivariate Distributions via Principal Components

November 8

Special Student Seminar
Lennon Li

Disease Mapping with Log Gaussian Cox Processes

November 15

Paul J. Villeneuve
Health Canada

The Case-Crossover Study Design: An Approach for Evaluating Associations
Between Daily Air Pollution Concentrations and Hospitalization for Stroke

November 22

Michal Abrahamowicz
McGill University

Cumulative Effects of Time-Varying Covariates in Survival Analysis: Flexible Modeling and Applications

November 29

 Julia Taleban
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute

Confidence Interval Estimation for Continuous Outcomes in Cluster Randomization Trials

December 6

Ian Moore
Quatrametrics

An Introduction to the Kalman Filter and Its Applications

December 13

Exam Week

Exam Week


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