Spring 2019
Speaker: Daniel Fort, PhD
Affiliation: Ochsner Health System, Center for Applied Health Services Research, New Orleans-LA
Title: Unsupervised Learning: Clustering
Date and Time: January 28, 2019, 3:00 pm
Room: LEC, Room 303
Speaker: Peter F Thall, PhD
Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Title: Statistical Remedies for Flawed Conventions in Medical Research
Date and Time: February 11, 2019, 3:00 pm
Room: LEC, Room 303
Speaker: Chuck Huber, PhD
Affiliation: StataCorp and Texas A&M School of Public Health
Title: Casual Inference for Complex Observational Data
Date and Time: February 18, 2019, 3:00 pm
Room: LEC, Room 303
Speaker: Angela Stodghill, PhD
Affiliation: Janssen R & D (Johnson & Johnson), Raritan-NJ
Title: Responsibilities and Required Skills of Clinical Statisticians in Clinical Trials Processes
Date and Time: March 15, 2019, 10.00 am
Room: LEC, Room 303
Speaker: Michelle Lacey, PhD
Affiliation: Tulane University, Department of Mathematics, New Orleans-LA
Title: Modeling Methylation Patterns with Long Read Sequencing Data
Date and Time: March 18, 2019, 3:00 pm
Room: LEC, Room 303
Speaker: Hui-Yi Lin, PhD
Affiliation: LSUHSC, School of Public Health, Biostatistics Program, New Orleans-LA
Title: Impact of Interaction patterns on genetic association studies: an example of prostate cancer
Date and Time: April 1, 2019, 3:00 pm
Room: LEC, Room 303
Speaker: Christian Geneus, MS, MPH
Affiliation: Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of Global Biostatistics and Data Science, New Orleans-LA
Title: Quantifying Uncertainty in Model Predictions: Stages of the Network Modeling
Date and Time: April 8, 2019, 3:00 pm
Room: LEC, Room 303
Speaker: Tat Yau, MSc
Affiliation: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Biostatistics Program, New Orleans-LA
Title: Inference in Linear Multivariate Envelope Model
Date and Time: April 10, 2019, 2:00 pm
Room: MEB, Room S3 (3212)
Speaker: Yaling Li
Affiliation: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Biostatistics Program, New Orleans-LA
Title: A Simulation Study to Check the Consequences of Violating Assumptions in Mediation Analysis
Date and Time: April 18, 2019, 8:30 am
Room: MEB, Room S7 (3224)
Speaker: Sungsu Kim, PhD
Affiliation: University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Department of Mathematics, Lafayette-LA
Title: A Multivariate Circular Distribution with Applications to the Protein Structure Prediction Problem
Date and Time: April 22, 2019, 3:00 pm
Room: LEC, Room 303
Speaker: Huaizhen Qin, PhD
Affiliation: University of Florida, Department of Epidemiology, Gainesville-Florida
Title: Rare Variant Association Mapping in Admixed Populations
Date and Time: April 29, 2019, 3:00 pm
Room: LEC, Room 303
Organizer: Evrim Oral, PhD