Spring/Winter 2009 Seminar Schedule
(Health Sciences Building, Room 790)

 

Date
Tuesday, 3-5pm


Speaker
 

Seminar Title
January 6

Wendy Lou

Q & A

January 13

Rob Deardon
University of Guelph

Likelihood-free Inference for Infectious Disease Models
January 20

Jerry Brunner
University of Toronto

Introduction to Structural Equation Models
January 27

Steve Fan
University of Toronto

Small Area Estimation for Spatially Aggregated Data with Time-varying Boundaries
February 3

Marie-Pierre Sylvestre
 Samuel Lunenfeld Research Insittute

Modeling the Cumulative Effects of Time-varying Exposure, Weighted by Recency, on the Hazard
February 10

Ron Buliung
University of Toronto

Toward the Conceptualization and Measurement of the Spaces of Daily Life (with A Primer on GIS)

February 17

Reading Week

No Class


February 24

Janet Raboud
Mt Sinai Hospital

Opportunities and Challenges with Observational HIV Databases

March 3

Qilong Yi
Canadian Blood Services

Assessing Reliability (Agreement) for Continuous Measurements

March 10

Erica Moodie
McGill University

 Estimating Unbiased Dose-response Curves from Repeated Measures in the Presence of Confounding

March 17

May Tang
May Consulting Services Inc.

Automated Time-trending Tool for Improved Quality Assurance in Manufacturing and Testing Biopharmaceutical Products

March 24

Alexandre Alcais
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U.550, Paris, France

Leprosy as a Genetic Model for Susceptibility to Common Infectious Diseases
March 31

Mohamed Abdolell
Dalhousie University

An Introduction to Binary Recursive Partitioning: Regression Trees
April 7

Olga Melnichouk, Salomom Minkin
Ontario Cancer Institute

Power of Logitic Regression with Measurement Error in Predictor Variable and Varying Number of Observations per Subject

April 14

Exam Week

Exam Week

April 21

Taraneh Abarin
University of Manitoba

Estimation in Generalized Linear Models with Measurement Error

 

 
     
 

Fall 2008 Seminar Schedule
(Health Sciences Building, Room 106)

 

Date
Tuesday, 3-5pm


Speaker
 

Seminar Title

   September 16

Wendy Lou

Introduction

September 23

Andrew Paterson
Hospital for SickKids

Genome-Wide Association of ~2.5M Common Alleles with Long-Term Complications of Type 1 Diabetes and Related Traits: Statistical Issues

September 30

Wendy Lou
University of Toronto

Statistics and Stories

October 7

Ming-Ying Leung
University of Texas, El Paso

Compound Poisson Approximation of Palindrome Length Score in Herpesviruses

October 14

Dionne Law
University of Toronto

Epidemiology 101
October 21

Alison Gibbs
University of Toronto

SSC Case Studies: What, Why and How

October 28

Rahim Moineddin
Univ. of Toronto & ICES

A Multilevel Analysis of Gender, Neighborhood Material Deprivation, and Number of Weekly Drinks among Canadian Adults Aged 31 to 74

November 4
(Rescheduled to January 13, 2009)

Rob Deardon
University of Guelph

Likelihood-free Inference for Infectious Disease Models

November 11

Rosane Nisenbaum
St. Michael's Hospital

A Three-Level Model for the Analysis of the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) for Negative Mood Intensity in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder(BPD) and Recurrent Suicidal Behaviour: An Application of Experience Sampling Methodology (ESM)

November 18

Rafal Kustra
University of Toronto

Combining Machine Learning and Bayesian Approaches for Inference in Statistical Genomics

November 25

Judy-Anne Chapman
National Cancer Institute of Canada, Queen's University

Competing Causes of Death from a Randomized Trial of Extended Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy for Breast Cancer: NCIC CTG MA.17

December 2

James Heller
James Heller Consulting Inc.

Syndromic Surveillance: Real Time Applications of Spatial Statistics

December 9

Aleksandra Kolenc-Saban
Sanofi Pasteur

Statistician's Role in Industry
Sanofi Pasteur: Canada's Vaccine Company

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