Biostatistics UMDNJ - School of Public Health

Journal Club Seminars
2006

Seminars were organized by Dr. Yujun Wu
Location: Room 3A, (3rd FL)
683 Hoes Lane
Piscataway
Schedule: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

January 27

Susan Huyck, M.S.
Statistician, Schering-Plough Research Institute, and Ph.D. student, UMDNJ
Determining Aerodynamic Particle Size Distribution Specifications: A Case Study

February 10

Yen-Hong Kuo, M.S.
Jersey Shore Medical Center, and Ph.D. candidate, UMDNJ
Categorizing a continuous covariate: the good, the bad, and the ugly

February 24

Jianqing Fan, Ph.D.
Department of Operation Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
Exploiting sparsity and within-array replications in analysis of microarray data

Additional details available here.
Note: There is no charge, but pre-registration is required for this seminar.
Refreshments at 3:30, seminar 4:00-5:00.
March 10

Jianxin Lin, M.S.
Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway
Ph.D. student, UMDNJ
Modeling of Neonatal Deaths in Triplet Pregnancies

Pin-wen Wang, M.P.H., M.S.
Ph.D. student, UMDNJ
Screening for sleep apnea-validity of MAP index in patients with sleep disorders

March 24

Yujun Wu, Ph.D.
UMDNJ
Estimating Survival Curve With Unlinked Entry and Failure Times

April 28

Shou-En Lu, Ph.D.
UMDNJ
Data Analysis Under Case-Cohort Designs With Clustered Binary Outcome Data

May 12

Rebecka Jornsten, Ph.D.
Rutgers University
Statistical analysis of dendritic branching in hippocampal neurons

May 26

Dan (Jennifer) Sun, M.S.
Ph.D. student, UMDNJ
UMDNJ
Drug Interaction in Combination - Synergistic, Antagonistic or Additive

September 8

Tara Blando
Cancer Epidemiology Services, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
M.P.H. student, UMDNJ
New Jersey Cancer Prevalence Estimates by Major Cancer Site

September 22

Christopher Tong
Biometrics Research Department, Merck Research Laboratories
Biomarker Analysis of Medical Imaging and Radiotelemetry Signals

October 13

Zhigang Zhang
Department of Statistics, Oklahoma State University
Statistical Analysis of Current Status Data Arising from a Tumorigenecity Study
Note special time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

October 27

Weili He, Ph.D.
Merck & Co., Inc.
Multiplicity Adjustment Strategy for Secondary Efficacy Endpoints

November 9

David Bickel, Ph.D.
Pioneer Hi-Bred International
Statistical Bioinformatics: From the Analysis of Gene Expression to the Integration of Multiple-Source Data
Note special time: 9:45 AM - 10:45 PM

November 10

Wei-Ting Hwang, Ph.D.
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Analysis of local recurrence and distant metastases in early-stage breast cancer using a mixture Markov model

November 24

No seminar - Thanksgiving Holidays

December 8

Aiyang Tao PhD Student
Department of Biostatistics, UMDNJ-SPH
Sequential Cohort Design for a Phase IIa/IIb Transplant Study

John Oleynick, PhD Student
Statistician, Merck & Co. Inc.
Dose-Estimation Methods in Phase I Cancer Clinical Trials

December 20

Dan (Jennifer) Sun, Ph.D. Student
Department of Biostatistics, UMDNJ-SPH
gsDesign * R Package for Group Sequential Design

Pin-Wen Wang, Ph.D. Student
Department of Biostatistics, UMDNJ-SPH
The genome-wide association studies for monitoring adverse events in the clinical evaluation of new drugs

December 22

No seminar - Christmas Holidays

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