Spring/Winter 2010 Seminar Schedule
(Health Sciences Building, Room 790)

 

Date
Tuesday, 4-5pm


Speaker
 

Seminar Title

January 5

Wendy Lou

Career Pathways--Q & A

January 26

Lennon Li
and
Billy Chang

Spatio-Tempoal Models of SLE and PsA Exact Data with Changing Boundaries (LL)
and
Statistical Approach to Transcript Quantification in RNA-Seq (BC)

February 2
(3-4pm)
(
NOTE TIME CHANGE)

Gerald Lebovic
and
Nicholas Mitsakakis

Estimating Non-Homogeneous Intensity Matrices in Continuous Time Multi-State Markov Models (GL)
and
Bayesian Methods for Gaussian Graphical Models (NM)

February 9

Ziling Wang
Wilfrid Laurier University

Analysis of Multilevel Models for Complex  Survey Data: Estimation of Variance Components

March 2

Wendy Lou

Generalized Linear Mixed Models

March 9

Eshetu Atenafu (SickKids)
and
 Maggie Hong Chen

Using A Small p-value from An Observed Data Is Not Evidence of Adequate Power for Future Similar-Sized Studies (EA)
and
Determining Optimal Sample Sizes for Multi-stage Randomized Clinical Trials from An Industry Perspective Based on the Valuye of Information Method (MC)

March 16

Qilong Yi
Canadian Blood Services

Power and Sample Size Calculation

March 30

 Rhonda Rosychuk
University of Alberta

Detection of Clusters of Disease Cases and Disease-Related Events

April 6

Mohamed Abdolell
Dalhousie University

Statistical Image Analysis of Mammographic Images: the Challenges and the Potential

April 13

Jemila S. Hamid
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion

Multivariate Growth Models

 
     
     
     
 

Fall 2009 Seminar Schedule
(Health Sciences Building, Room 790)

 

Date
Tuesday, 4-5pm


Speaker
 

Seminar Title

September 15
(3-5pm)

Wendy Lou

Introduction

September 22
(3-5pm)

Wendy Lou

Statistics and Stories

September 29

David Tolusso
Institute for Work & Health

Local Likelihood for Interval-Censored Recurrent Events--Part I

October 6
(3-5pm)

David Tolusso
Institute for Work & Health

Local Likelihood for Interval-Censored Recurrent Events--Part II

October 13

Dionne Law
University of Toronto

Epidemiology 101
October 20

Ian Moore
 Institute for Work & Health

Using Time Series Analysis in Health Care Research--Part I

October 27

Ian Moore
Institute for Work & Health

Using Time Series Analysis in Health Care Research--Part II

November 3
(3-5pm)

Rahim Moineddin
University of Toronto & ICES

Regression Models for Analyzing Data with Many Zeros

November 10

Ye Sun
Princess Margaret Hospital, University Health Network

Group-based Criminal Trajectories Analysis Using Cross-Validation Criteria

November 17

Amparo Casanova
Canadian Heart Research Centre

Combining Clinical Research and Continuing Medical Education: the Challenging Role of the Statistician

November 24

Depeng Jiang
St. Michael's Hospital

Two-Part Mixture Models for Longitudinal Data with Non-Random Dropout and Semi-continuous Outcomes

December 1

Celia Greenwood
Hospital for Sick Children

A Linkage Study of Mammographic Breast Density

December 9
(Date Changed)

Paul McNicholash
University of Guelph

Recent Work in Model-Based Clustering & Classification

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