Spring 2024
| Director: Mike Sekula, PhD, Dongfeng Wu, PhD
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1/26/2024
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| Speaker: Fernanda Schumacher, PhD, Division of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, Ohio State University |
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| Title: "Scale Mixture of Skew-Normal Linear Mixed Models: a Bayesian approach using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo" |
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2/9/2024
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| Speaker: James Belmonte, Staff Data Scientist – Causal Inference, Covera Health |
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| Title: "Iterative Orthogonal Regression For The Identification Of Direct Effect Modifiers" |
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2/16/2024
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| Speaker: Ashley Petersen, Ph.D., Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, University of Minnesota |
| Title: "Incorporating Inclusive Teaching Practices into a Graduate Biostatistics Course" |
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| 2/23/2024 |
| Speaker: Bryan Blette, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| Title: "Practical Issues in Cluster-Randomized Trials: Missing Data and Assessing Assumptions" |
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3/1/2024
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| Speaker: Douglas Darnowski, Ph.D., Sts Therese and Isidore Farm College |
| Title: "New Wet and Dry Carnivorous Plants: The First Carnivorous Seaweed and the First Dryland Pitcherplants" |
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3/8/2024
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| Speaker: Jun Xie, Ph.D., Professor of Statistics, Purdue University |
| Title: "A Statistical Model for Causal Feature Representation" |
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| 3/29/2024 |
| Speaker: Wei-Wen Hsu, Ph.D., Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Environmental and Public Health Sciences, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine |
| Title: "A Novel Exponential Loss Function for Multiclass Classification with Complex Imbalanced Data" |
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| 4/12/2024 |
| Speaker: Maiying Kong, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
| Title: "Challenges and Opportunities in High-Dimensional Data Analyses: Insights from Imaging Mass Cytometry and Genomic Phenotype Integration" |
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| 4/19/2024 |
| Speaker: Felix Pabon-Rodriguez, Ph.D., Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine |
| Title: "Statistical Modeling of Vector-Borne Diseases and Immune Responses" |
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Fall 2023
| Director: Mike Sekula, PhD
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9/1/2023
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| Speaker: Yong Zang, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University |
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| Title: "A Generalized Phase 1-2-3 Design integrating Dose Optimization with Confirmatory Treatment Comparison" |
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9/8/2023
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| Speaker: Xiaoran Tong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Center for Innovation in Population Health, University of Kentucky |
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| Title: "A machine learning assisted process to build interpretable decision support models from large data: standardize the decision-making in child welfare" |
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10/6/2023
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| Speaker: Anish Mukherjee, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Modeling Zero-Inflated Count Data with Spatio-Temporal Correlations through Gaussian copulas and Approximate Bayesian Computing" |
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10/20/2023
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| Speaker: Dayu Sun, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University, School of Medicine |
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| Title: "Partial Tensor Regression" |
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10/27/2023
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| Speaker: Suvo Chatterjee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology Biostatistics, Indiana University Bloomington |
| Title: "New statistical models to address current challenges in differential analysis of omics data" |
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| 11/10/2023 |
| Speaker: Jinyuan Liu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University |
| Title: "Feature Aggregation in Causal Discovery for High-dimensional Data: Application to Targeting the ‘Gut-Brain-Axis’ via the Microbiome Diversity" |
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11/17/2023
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| Speaker: Sean McCabe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine |
| Title: "Integrating functional annotations to empower rare variant set by environmental interactions in large biobank datasets" |
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Spring 2023
| Director: Mike Sekula, PhD
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1/20/2023 (Remote seminar via Zoom - contact Mike Sekula, PhD for meeting information)
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| Speaker: Jeong Hoon Jang, PhD, Department of Applied Statistics, Yonsei University |
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| Title: "A functional quantile regression model for predicting hypoglycemic events using continuous glucose monitoring data" |
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1/27/2023
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| Speaker: Doug Lorenz, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Development and Internal Validation of a Prediction Rule for Radiographic Pneumonia in the Pediatric ED" |
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2/3/2023
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| Speaker: Raul Cruz-Cano, Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Indiana University Bloomington |
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| Title: "A neural network based early warning system to enhance community resilience against diarrheal disease" |
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| 2/24/2023 |
| Speaker: Triparna Poddar, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Estimation of Average treatment effect for Survival Outcomes with Continuous Treatment In Observational Studies" |
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3/3/2023
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| Speaker: Michael Sekula, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Detection of differentially expressed genes in discrete single-cell RNA sequencing data using a hurdle model with correlated random effects" |
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3/10/2023
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| Speaker: Uthpala Wanigasekera, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
| Title: "Bayesian methods for causal inference and propensity scores" |
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| 3/24/2023 |
| Speaker: Carly E. Middleton, Ph.D. student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
| Title: "Assessment of positive selection across SARS-CoV-2 variants via maximum likelihood approaches and a continuous-time approximation to the Wright-Fisher diffusion model" |
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3/31/2023
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| Speaker: Huirong Hu, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
| Title: "Statistical methods for assessing treatment effects on ordinal outcomes using observational data" |
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4/7/2023 (VIRTUAL ONLY VIA ZOOM - Contact Sharmin Sumy for Zoom information)
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| Speaker: Rameela Ramdan, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medical |
| Title: "Prescription monitoring in the child welfare system and its challenges" |
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| 4/21/2023 |
| Speaker: Hongbin Zhang, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky |
| Title: "Statistical methods for complex longitudinal data" |
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Fall 2022
| Director: Mike Sekula, PhD
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9/9/2022
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| Speaker: Debamita Kundu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia |
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| Title: "Bayesian Inference of Chemical Mixtures in Risk Assessment Incorporating the Hierarchical Principle" |
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9/16/2022
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| Speaker: Meredith Duncan, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky |
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| Title: "Modeling the Lifetime Risk of Smoking on Cardiovascular Disease" |
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9/23/2022 (Remote via Zoom; Contact Sharmin Sumy for ID and passcode)
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| Speaker: Arinjita Bhattacharyya, Ph.D., Biostatistics & Research Decision Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc. |
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| Title: "A Two-Part Tweedie Model for Differential Analysis of Omics Data" |
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| 10/7/2022 |
| Speaker: K.B. Kulasekera, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Quantiles-based Personalized Treatment for Multivariate Outcomes" |
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10/14/2022
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| Speaker: Fang Li, Ph.D., Department of Mathematical Sciences, IUPUI |
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| Title: "An Optimal Subsampling Method for Massive Penalized Spline Single Index Models" |
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| 10/21/2022 |
| Speaker: Christopher McLouth, PhD, Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky |
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| Title: "A Day in the Life of a Collaborative Biostatistician" |
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11/4/2022 (Remote via Zoom; Contact Sharmin Sumy for ID and passcode)
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| Speaker: Raghu Pasupathy, PhD, Department of Statistics, Purdue University |
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| Title: "Batching for Confidence Regions on the Steady State Quantile Field" |
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11/7/2022 (NOTE THE SPECIAL MONDAY SESSION)
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| Speaker: Arnab Ganguly, Ph.D., Louisiana State University |
| Title: "Non-Parametric learning of stochastic dynamical systems" |
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| 11/11/2022 |
| Speaker: Irina Kondaurova, PhD Student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
| Title: "Acceptance of ARNA robot by nursing professionals: an experimental case study" |
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11/18/2022 (Remote via Zoom; Contact Sharmin Sumy for ID and passcode)
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| Speaker: Shilin Zhao, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University |
| Title: "Integrative analysis of spatial transcriptome data with tissue morphology deep features by stiImage" |
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Spring 2022
| Director: Jeremy Gaskins, Ph.D.
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1/21/2022
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| Speaker: Michael Sekula, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Single-cell Differential Network Analysis with Sparse Bayesian Factor Models" |
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1/28/2022
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| Speaker: Jeremy Gaskins, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "A Bayesian nonparametric model for classification of longitudinal profiles" |
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2/4/2022 (CANCELLED (Weather); Rescheduled for TBA)
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| Speaker: Sha Cao, PhD, Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University |
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| Title: "Statistical models for spatial transcriptomics data to study cell cell interactions" |
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2/11/2022 (REMOTE VIA ZOOM: Contact Sharmin Sumy for meeting info)
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| Speaker: Amir Asiaee, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University |
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| Title: "Identification and comparison of genes differentially regulated by transcription factors and miRNAs" |
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| 2/18/2022 |
| Speaker: Sha Cao, PhD, Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University |
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| Title: "Statistical models for spatial transcriptomics data to study cell cell interactions" |
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2/25/2022 (REMOTE VIA ZOOM: Contact Sharmin Sumy for meeting info)
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| Speaker: Fei Xue, PhD, Department of Statistics, Purdue University |
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| Title: "Statistical inference for high-dimensional block-wise missing data" |
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| 3/4/2022 |
| Speaker: Maiying Kong, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Introduction of causal inference and use of propensity scores" |
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3/11/2022 (Room Change: SPHIS 103)
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| Speaker: Amber J Hackstadt, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| Title: "Estimating Hazard Rate and Risk in Large Public Studies" |
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3/25/2022 (Room Change: SPHIS 103)
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| Speaker: Travis S. Johnson, PhD, MSPH, Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Indiana University School of Medicine |
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| Title: "Identifying high risk components of disease from single cell, spatial, and imaging data" |
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4/1/2022 (REMOTE VIA ZOOM: Contact Sharmin Sumy for meeting info)
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| Speaker: Honglang Wang, PhD, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis |
| Title: "Multivariate partial linear varying coefficients model for gene-environment interactions with multiple longitudinal traits" |
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| 4/15/2022 (Room Change: SPHIS 103) |
| Speaker: Qian Xu, PhD Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
| Title: "Doubly Robust Methods for Identifying Effect Modifiers and Estimating Optimal Treatment based on Observational Data" |
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Fall 2021
| Director: Jeremy Gaskins, Ph.D.
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| 8/27/2021 |
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| Speaker: Doug Lorenz, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
| Title: "An Introduction to the Cardinal Research Cluster (CRC) at UofL" |
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| 9/3/2021 |
| Speaker: Fangzheng Xie, Ph.D., Department of Statistics, Indiana University |
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| Title: "Central limit theorems for spectral estimators and their one-step refinement for sparse random graphs" |
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9/10/2021 (REMOTE - Contact Sharmin Sumy for Zoom link)
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| Speaker: Andrew Spiker, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University |
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| Title: "Methods to evaluate the role of engagement with mobile interventions" |
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9/17/2021 (CANCELLED - To be rescheduled)
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| Speaker: Olga Vsevolozhskaya, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky |
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| Title: "DOT: Gene-set analysis by combining decorrelated association statistics" |
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| 9/24/2021 |
| Speaker: Sarah Kendrick, Ph.D., Informatics Lead, Humana |
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| Title: "Life After Grad School - Working in Corporate America" |
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| 10/1/2021 |
| Speaker: Giorgos Bakoyannis, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University, Indianapolis |
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| Title: "Nonparametric tests for multistate processes with clustered data" |
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| 10/8/2021 |
| Speaker: Ruben Adatorwovor, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky |
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| Title: "On Estimating Dependent Net or Relative Survival: A Parametric Approach" |
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| 10/15/2021 |
| Speaker: Sudaraka Tholkage, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Conditional Kaplan-Meier Estimator with Functional Covariates for Survival Data" |
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10/22/2021
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| Speaker: Won Chang, Ph.D., Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati |
| Title: "Bayesian Model Calibration and Sensitivity Analysis for Oscillating Biological Experiments" |
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| 11/5/2021 |
| Speaker: Dongfeng Wu, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Dynamic scheduling of the upcoming screening when sensitivity is a function of sojourn time" |
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| 11/12/2021 |
| Speaker: Sagnik Bhadury, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
| Title: "Bayesian methodology for Graphical Models with Neighborhood Selection" |
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| 12/3/2021 |
| Speaker: Siddhesh Kulkarni, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
| Title: "A Bayesian Methodology for Estimation for Sparse Canonical Correlation" |
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Spring 2021
| Director: Jeremy Gaskins, PhD |
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1/15/2021
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| Speaker: Stephanie Hicks, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University |
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| Title: "Scalable statistical methods and software for single-cell data science" |
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| 1/22/2021 |
| Speaker: Rebecca C. Steorts, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University |
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| Title: "(Almost) All of Entity Resolution" |
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| 1/29/2021 |
| Speaker: Doug Lorenz, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "htestClust: A R package for hypothesis tests for clustered data under informative cluster size" |
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| 2/5/2021 |
| Speaker: Soutik Ghosal, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development |
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| Title: "Placement-value based Bayesian ROC curve methodologies and brief applications on enforcing a priori constraints" |
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| 2/12/2021 |
| Speaker: Antonio Linero, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin |
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| Title: "Bayesian Decision Tree Ensembling Strategies for Nonparametric Problems" |
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| 2/19/2021 |
| Speaker: You Wu, PhD, Biostatistics Manager at Amgen |
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| Title: "Statisticians in Biotechnology Company" |
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| 2/26/2021 |
| Speaker: K.B. Kulasekera, Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Personalized Treatment Selection using Data from Crossover Designs with Carry Over Effects" |
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| 3/12/2021 |
| Speaker: Md Nazir Uddin, Graduate Student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Bayesian Variable Selection Strategies in Longitudinal Mixture Models and Categorical Regression Problems" |
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3/19/2021
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| Speaker: Farhin Rahman, Graduate Student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Inference of Sojourn Time and Transition Density using the NLST X-ray Screening Data in Lung Cancer" |
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| 3/26/2021 |
| Speaker: Qian Xu, Graduate Student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Statistics Methods for Assessing Drug Interactions Using Observational Data" |
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Fall 2020
| Director: Jeremy Gaskins, PhD |
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8/28/2020 (2PM)
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| Speaker: Jingchao Sun, Graduate Student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: TBA |
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| 9/4/2020 |
| Speaker: Yuan Ji, Ph.D., Department of Health Sciences, University of Chicago |
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| Title: "Semiparametric Bayesian Inference for the Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 with a State-Space Model" |
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| 9/11/2020 |
| Speaker: John Craycroft, Graduate Student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Bayesian causal inference using MCMC sampling approach" |
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| 9/18/2020 |
| Speaker: Arkendu Chatterjee, Ph.D., Biostatistics Department, Bristol Myers Squibb |
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| Title: "Improving Prediction of Overall Survival using Joint Modeling Approach" |
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| 9/25/2020 |
| Speaker: Susmita Datta, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida |
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| Title: "Unraveling city-specific signature for MetaSUB microbiome data" |
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| 10/2/2020 |
| Speaker: David Benkeser, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University |
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| Title: "At warp speed: statistics and COVID-19 vaccine development" |
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| 10/9/2020 |
| Speaker: Rebecca Steorts, Ph.D., Department of Statistical Science, Duke University |
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| Title: "Entity Resolution with Societal Impacts in Machine Learning" |
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| 10/16/2020 |
| Speaker: Shu Yang, Ph.D., Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University |
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| Title: "Test-based Integrative Analysis of Randomized Trial and Real-World Data for Treatment Heterogeneity Estimation" |
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| 10/23/2020 |
| Speaker: Chenguang Yang, Ph.D., Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Johns Hopkins University |
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| Title: "Leveraging Real-World Data in Clinical Trial Design and Analysis" |
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10/30/2020 (10AM)
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| Speaker: John Craycroft, Graduate Student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Aspects of Causal Inference" |
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| 11/6/2020 |
| Speaker: Doug Lorenz, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| POSTPONED |
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| 11/13/2020 |
| Speaker: Fei Tan, Ph.D., Department of Mathematical Sciences, IUPUI |
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| Title: "Massive Data Regression In GEEs Via A-optimal Subsampling" |
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| 11/20/2020 |
| Speaker: Nazir Uddin, Graduate Student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Shared Bayesian Variable Shrinkage in Multinomial Logistic Regression Model" |
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Spring 2020
| Director: Subhadip Pal, PhD |
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| 1/17/2020 |
| Speaker: Subhadip Pal, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "The Modified-Half-Normal Distribution: Pertinency, Properties and an Efficient Sampling Scheme" |
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| 1/24/2020 |
| Speaker: Ligong Chen, MD, MPH,Department of Preventive Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Science |
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| Title: "About Self-weight of Continuous Random Variable" |
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| 2/7/2020 |
| Speaker: Jeremy Gaskins, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "A Longitudinal Bayesian Mixed Effects Model with Hurdle Conway-Maxwell-Poisson Distribution" |
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| 2/14/2020 |
| Speaker: Chenlong Ye, PhD, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky |
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| Title: "Sparsity Oriented Importance Learning for High-dimensional Linear Regression" |
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| 2/28/2020 |
| Speaker: Jingchao Sun, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University Of Louisville |
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| Title: "Directed Acyclic Graph Assisted Methods For Estimating Average Treatment Effect" |
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| Remaining sessions cancelled due to pandemic restrictions |
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Fall 2019
| Director: Qi Zheng, PhD |
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| 8/23/2019 |
| Speaker: Wentao Gu, Ph.D., Zhejiang Gongshang University, China and Indiana University |
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| Title: "What Causes the Influence of Bank Channel towards Corporate Investment: Liquidity or Economic Policy Uncertainty?" |
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| 8/30/2019 |
| Speaker: Emily Slade, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky |
| Title: "Pitfalls and Recommendations for Handling Missing Data in Canonical Correlation Analysis" |
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| 9/6/2019 |
| Speaker: Mike Sekula, PhD Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
| Title: "A sparse Bayesian factor model for the construction of gene co-expression networks from single-cell RNA sequencing count data" |
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| 9/13/2019 |
| Speaker: Qi Zheng, Ph.D, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
| Title: "Globally Adaptive Longitudinal Quantile Regression with High Dimensional Compositional Covariates" |
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| 9/20/2019 |
| Speaker: Julia Fukuyama, PhD, Department of Statistics, Indiana University |
| Title: "Phylogenetically-informed distance methods for microbiome data analysis" |
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| 9/27/2019 |
| Speaker: William Scott Sanders, PhD, Department of Communication, University of Louisville |
| Title: "The Collection, Analysis, and Quirks of Social Media Data" |
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| 10/4/2019 |
| Speaker: Molu Shi, Senior Cognitive/Machine Learning Professional, Humana |
| Title: "Opening black-box models for better clinical intervention" |
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| 10/11/2019 |
| Speaker: Anna Smith, PhD, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky |
| Title: "Prediction scoring for measuring the replicability of data-driven discoveries" |
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| 10/18/2019 |
| Speaker: Philip Westgate, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky |
| Title: "Study Design and Statistical Analysis Options for Cluster Randomized Trials: Examples Based on the Proposed HEALing Communities Study - Kentucky" |
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| 11/1/2019 |
| Speaker: Ruiqi Liu, Ph.D., Biostatistician, Medpace |
| Title: "Analysis of Data Sets with Missing Values in Clinical Trials" |
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| 11/8/2019 |
| Speaker: Xiaofang Yan, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University Of Louisville |
| Title: "Weighted test and test for multiple group comparisons in observational studies" |
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| 11/15/2019 |
| Speaker: Bereket Kindo, PhD, Humana |
| Title: "Bayesian estimation of sums of sparse and dense signals" |
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11/22/2019, 10:30AM
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| Speaker: Arnold Stromberg, PhD, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky |
| Title: "Better Prediction Using Machine Learning and Regression Models" |
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Spring 2019
| Director: Subhadip Pal, PhD |
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| 1/18/2019 |
| Speaker:Subhadip Pal, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Data Augmentation Algorithms for Bayesian Analysis of Directional Data" |
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| 1/25/2019 |
| Speaker: Xuan Cao, Ph.D., Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati |
| Title: "Consistent Bayesian Joint Variable and DAG Selection in High Dimensions " |
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| 2/1/2019 |
| Speaker: Andrew Brown, Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University |
| Title: "Statistical and inferential issues in nutrition and obesity research: opportunities for quantitative reasoning" |
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| 2/8/2019 |
| Speaker: Debamita Kundu, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
| Title: "Novel Bayesian Methodology In Multivariate Problems" |
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| 2/15/2019 |
| Speaker: Jaroslaw Harezlak, Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University |
| Title: "Brain Connectivity-Informed Adaptive Regularization for Generalized Outcomes" |
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| 2/22/2019 |
| Speaker: Chungfeng Huang, Ph.D., Department of Statistics, Indiana University |
| Title: "Intrinsic random functions on the sphere" |
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| 3/1/2019 |
| Speaker: Brendan Depue, Ph.D., Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville |
| Title: "Neural Correlates Involved in Down Regulating Negative Memory and Emotion" |
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| 3/8/2019 |
| Speaker: Jingchao Sun, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
| Title: "The Modified-Half-Normal distribution: properties and efficient sampling scheme" |
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| 3/22/2019 |
| Speaker: K.B. Kulasekera, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
| Title: "Selection of the Optimal Personalized Treatment from Multiple Treatments with Multivariate Outcome Measures" |
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| 3/29/2019 |
| Speaker: Seongho Song, Ph.D., Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati |
| Title: "Flexible link functions in a joint model of binary and longitudinal data" |
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| 4/5/2019 |
| Speaker: Mike Sekula, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinfomatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
| Title: TBA |
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| 4/12/2019 |
| Speaker: Xuwen Zhu, Ph.D., Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville |
| Title: "Faculty salary analysis based on mixtures of two-way time series models" |
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| 4/19/2019 |
| Speaker: Daniel Manrique-Vallier, Ph.D., Department of Statistics, Indiana University |
| Title: "Simultaneous Edit and Imputation for Categorical Microdata" |
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| Fall 2018 | Director: Subhadip Pal, PhD |
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| 8/31/2018 |
| Speaker:Dongfeng Wu, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Title: "Dynamic Scheduling of the Upcoming Exam Using Existing Screening Data and Personal Screening History" |
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| 9/7/2018 |
| Speaker: Jasmit Shah, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
| Title: "Why are Missing Values Important? Novel Approach for Imputing Missing Values in High Dimensional Data" |
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| 9/14/2018 |
| Speaker: Philip Westgate, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky |
| Title: "Small-Sample Issues in Cluster Randomized Trials" |
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| 9/21/2018 |
| Speaker: Kathrine Thompson, PhD, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky |
| Title: "Incorrect model selection using R2 and AIC in big data analyses" |
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| 9/28/2018 |
| Speaker: Nianjin Liu, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University |
| Title: "Associating Multivariate Quantitative Phenotypes with Genetic Variants in Family Samples" |
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| 10/5/2018 |
| No Seminar |
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| 10/12/2018 |
| No Seminar |
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| 10/19/2018 |
| Speaker: Derek Young, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky |
| Title: "Hyperrectangular Tolerance and Prediction Regions for Setting Multivariate Reference Regions in Laboratory Medicine" |
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| 10/26/2018 |
| Speaker: Xiaofang Yan, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
| Title: "Estimation of Average Treatment Effects Among Multiple Treatment Groups by Using an Ensemble Approach" |
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| 11/2/2018 |
| Speaker: Tatsuki Koyama, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University |
| Title: "What we don’t talk about when we talk about biostatistics: Challenges in data merging and treatment definition in a large-scale observational study." |
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| 11/9/2018 |
| Speaker: Chi Wang, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky |
| Title: "Differential Abundance Analysis for Proteomic and Metabolomic Data" |
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| 11/16/2018 |
| No Seminar |
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| 11/23/2018 |
| No Seminar |
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| 11/30/2018 |
| Speaker: CANCELED - Speaker conflict |
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| Spring 2018 | Director: Subhadip Pal, PhD |
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| 1/19/2018 |
| Title: "A Bayesian Framework for Modeling Data on the Stiefel Manifold" |
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| Speaker: Subhadip Pal, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
|
| 1/26/2018 |
| Title: "Spatiotemporal mixed effect modeling and its applications" |
| Speaker: Soutik Ghosal, PhD Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
|
| 2/2/2018 |
| Title: "Model Transfer Across Additive Manufacturing Processes via Mean Effect Equivalence of Lurking Variables" |
| Speaker: Arman Sabbaghi,PhD, Department of Statistics, Purdue University |
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| 2/16/2018 |
| Title: "Spatiotemporal mixed effect modeling and its applications" |
| Speaker: Qi Zheng, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
|
| 2/23/2018 |
| Title: TBA |
| Speaker: Ming Li, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University Bloomington |
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| 3/16/2018 |
| No Seminar: Spring Break |
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| 3/23/2018 |
| Title: "Computation of Maximum Likelihood Estimates for the Negative Binomial Distribution" |
| Speaker: Ryan Gill, PhD, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville |
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| 3/30/2018 |
| Title: "Studying crime trends in the United States in the 21st century" |
| Speaker: Xuwen Zhu, PhD, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville |
|
| 4/6/2018 |
| Title: "A spatial Bayesian approach to cortical surface task FMRI analysis" |
| Speaker: Amanda Mejia, PhD, Department of Statistics, Indiana University Bloomington |
|
| 4/13/2018 |
| Title: "A Bayesian double fusion spatio-temporal model for resting-state brain connectivity using joint functional and structural data" |
| Speaker: Hakmook Kang, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University |
|
| 4/20/2018 |
| Title: "Bayesian variable selection for multi-outcome models through shared shrinkage" |
| Speaker: Debamita Kundu, PhD Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
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| Fall 2017 | Directors: Jeremy Gaskins, PhD and Subhadip Pal, PhD |
|
| 9/1/2017 |
| Title: "An Introduction to High Performance Computing at UofL" |
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| Speaker: Doug Lorenz, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
|
| 9/8/2017 |
| Title: "Path and parameter inference for Markov jump processes" |
| Speaker: Vinayak Rao, Ph.D., Department of Statistics, Purdue University |
|
| 9/15/2017 |
| Title: "Design and Analysis of Two-Phase Studies with Applications to Genetic Association Studies" |
| Speaker: Ran Tao, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University |
|
| 9/22/2017 |
| Title: "Default Bayes and Prediction Problems with Global-Local Shrinkage Priors" |
| Speaker: Anindya Bhadra, PhD, Department of Statistics, Purdue University |
|
| 9/29/2017 |
| Title: "Bayesian sharp minimaxity via FDR penalization" |
| Speaker: Qifan Song, PhD, Department of Statistics, Purdue University |
|
| 10/6/2017 |
| Title: "Statistical Tests for Interactions and Main Effects in Two-Factor Unbalanced Cross-Classified Fixed Effects Experiments with No Data in Some Cells" |
| Speaker: Mike Kutner, PhD, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University |
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| 10/13/2017 |
| No Seminar due to Kentucky Chapter of the American Statistical Association Meeting |
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| 10/20/2017 |
| Seminar cancelled - speaker conflict |
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| 10/27/2017 |
| Title: "Hurdle Model with Correlated Random Effects for Differential Expression of Single Cell RNA Sequencing Data" |
| Speaker: Mike Sekula, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
|
| 11/3/2017 |
| Title: "Treatment Effect Estimate and Model Diagnostics with Two-way Time-Varying Treatment Switching: an application to a head and neck study" |
| Speaker: Qingxia Chen, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University |
|
| 11/10/2017 |
| Title: "Evaluation of a two-step iterative resampling procedure for internal validation of genome-wide association studies" |
| Speaker: Kumar Srivastava, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital |
|
| 11/17/2017 |
| Title: "The Matryoshka Prior and Goldilocks’ Penalization for Bayesian Regression" |
| Speaker: Andy Womack, PhD, Department of Statistics, Indiana University Bloomington |
|
| 12/1/2017 |
| Title: TBA |
| Speaker: Dave Fardo, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky |
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| Spring 2017 | Director: Qi Zheng, Ph.D. |
|
| 1/20/2017 |
| Title: "Survival Impact Index and Ultrahigh-dimensional Model-free Biomarker Screening with Survival Outcomes" |
|
| Speaker: Qi Zheng, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
|
| 1/27/2017 |
| Title: "Propensity Scores Based Methods for Estimating Average Treatment Effect and Average Treatment Effect Among Treated: A Comparative Study" |
| Speaker: Maiying Kong, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
|
| 2/3/2017 |
| Title: "Assessment of variable contribution in model-based clustering through variation partition" |
| Speaker: Xuwen Zhu, PhDh, Qi Zheng, PhD, Department of Mathematics, University of Louisville |
|
| 2/10/2017 |
| Title: "Disease Classification from Longitudinal Data using Bayesian Nonparametrics" |
| Speaker: Jeremy Gaskins, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
|
| 2/17/2017 |
| Title: "Flexible Modeling in Generalized Linear Regression Models" |
| Speaker: Xia Wang, PhD, Department of Mathematics, University of Cincinnati |
|
| 2/24/2017 |
| Title: "Novel Computational approaches for some key problems involving large-scale biological data" |
| Speaker: Subhajit Sengupta, PhD, Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago |
|
| 3/3/2017 |
| Title: "Nonparametric goodness-of-fit tests for uniform stochastic ordering" |
| Speaker: Dewei Wang, PhD, Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina |
|
| 3/10/2017 |
| Title: "Bayesian Multivariate Gamma-Frailty Cox Model For Clustered Current Status Data" |
| Speaker: Seongho Song, PhD, Department of Mathematics, University of Cincinnati |
|
| 3/24/2017 |
| Title: "Estimation and Comparison of Environmental Exposure Distributions in Presence of Detection Limits" |
| Speaker: Li Chen, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky |
|
| 3/31/2017 |
| Title: "A new class of measures for testing independence" |
| Speaker: Xiangrong Yin, PhD, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky |
|
| 4/7/2017 |
| Title: "A Distributional ICA Model for Analyzing Multimodal Neuroimaging Data" |
| Speaker: Subhadip Pal, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
|
| 4/14/2017 |
| Title: "Examine treatment effect for ordinal outcome when confounding covariates exist" |
| Speaker: You Wu, PhD Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
|
| 4/21/2017 |
| ASA Kentucky Chapter Meeting |
| Location: Clinical and Translational Research Building 101/102, 505 S. Hancock St. |
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| Fall 2016 | Director: Qi Zheng, Ph.D. |
|
| 9/9/2016 |
| "Censored quantile regression in high dimensional survival data" |
|
| Qi Zheng, University of Louisville |
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| 9/16/2016 |
| "Network Dynamics of Network Interventions: A Multilevel Meta Network Analysis" |
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| Weihua An, Indiana University |
|
| 9/23/2016 |
| "Recurrent Event Data Analysis With Intermittently Observed Time-Varying Covariates" |
| Shangshan Li, IUPUI |
|
| 9/30/2016 |
| "Tree-based methods in personalized medicine" |
| Ruoqing Zhi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
|
| 10/7/2016 |
| "Personalized Dose Finding Using Outcome Weighted Learning" |
| Guanhua Chen, Vanderbilt University |
|
| 10/14/2016 |
| "Building Bayesian Models in Python with PyMC3" |
| Chris Fonnesbeck, Vanderbilt University |
|
| 10/21/2016 |
| "Multiple imputation to construct a data bank from a collection of studies" |
| Elly Kaizar, Ohio State University |
|
| 11/4/2016 |
| "Approximation-regularization for the analysis of large data sets" |
| Daniel McDonald, Indiana University |
|
| 11/11/2016 |
| "Characterizing uncertainty in genetic association landscapes by functional Bayesian bands: Application to pleiotropic effects of CSF levels of Alzheimer’s disease proteins" |
| Olga A. Vsevolozhskaya , University of Kentucky |
|
| 12/2/2016 |
| "A marginal log rank test for clustered data under informative within-cluster group size" |
| Doug Lorenz, University of Louisville |
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| Spring 2016 | Director: Jeremy Gaskins, Ph.D. |
|
| 1/15/2016 |
| "Propensity scores based methods for estimating average treatment effect and average treatment effect among treated: A comparative review" | |
| Younathan Abdia, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville | |
|
| 1/29/2016 |
| "Personalized Plans with Multiple Treatments" | |
| Chathura Siriwardhana, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville | |
|
| 2/5/2016 |
| "Estimation of the Average Causal Effect while Accounting for Uncertainty in Confounder and Effect Modifier Selection" | |
| Chi Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Division of Cancer Biostatistics, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky | |
|
| 2/12/2016 |
| "Nonparametric Estimation of Phylogenetic Tree Distributions" | |
| Ruriko (Rudy) Yoshida, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky | |
|
| 2/19/2016 |
| "Covariate-adjusted Spearman's rank correlation with probability-scale residuals" | |
| Bryan Shepherd, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University | |
|
| 3/4/2016 |
| "Early phase development in clinical trials: What have we accomplished and where do we need to go?" | |
| Emily Dressler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Division of Cancer Biostatistics, Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky | |
|
| 3/24/2016 |
| "High-Dimensional Nonparametric ODE Models for Dynamic Gene Regulation Networks" | |
| Tao Lu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, State University of New York, Albany | |
|
| 3/25/2016 |
| "Applications of a Bayesian Hypothesis Testing Framework to the Analysis of Genetic Data" | |
| Claudio Fuentes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University | |
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| 3/28/2016 |
| "Some Aspects of the Bayesian Adaptive Non-Inferiority Trial Design in Comparative Effectiveness Research" | |
| Samiran Ghosh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University | |
|
| 3/30/2016 |
| "Adaptive designs for phase II cancer clinical trials" | |
| Guogen Shan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of the Community Health Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas | |
|
| 4/8/2016 |
| "Multi-scale methods for analyses of functional phenotypes arising from high-throughput sequencing assays" | |
| Heejung Shim, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University | |
|
| 4/15/2016 |
| "Nonparametric Inference with Misclassified Competing Risks Data" | |
| Ying Zhang, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biostatistics, IUPUI | |
|
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| Fall 2015 | Director: Jeremy Gaskins, Ph.D. |
|
| 9/11/2015 |
| "Robust analyses of over-dispersed counts with varying follow-up in small samples and rare diseases" | |
| Frank Konietschke, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Science, University of Texas at Dallas | |
|
| 9/18/2015 |
| "Bayesian Model Selection Under Heredity Constraints" | |
| Andrew Womack, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Indiana University | |
|
| 9/25/2015 |
| "Outcome related sampling designs for longitudinal binary data with application to spirometry-based COPD diagnosis" | |
| Jonathan Schildcrout, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University | |
|
| 10/2/2015 |
| "Distance-weighted Support Vector Machine" | |
| Lingsong Zhang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University | |
|
| 10/9/2015 |
| "A multivariate semiparametric regression model and its application in studies of hypertension" | |
| Wanzhu Tu, PhD, Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Medicine | |
|
| 10/16/2015 |
| "Spatial Analysis of High-Resolution Regional Climate-Change Projection over North America" | |
| Emily Kang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Science, University of Cincinnati | |
|
| 10/30/2015 |
| "Marginal regression models for clustered count data based on zero-inflated Conway-Maxwell-Poisson distribution with applications" | |
| Hyoyoung Choo-Wosoba, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville | |
|
| 11/6/2015 |
| "Inference of Long Term Outcomes and Over-diagnosis in Periodic Cancer Screening" | |
| Dongfeng Wu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville | |
|
| 11/13/2015 |
| "Developments in statistical application and methodology resulting from scientific collaborations" | |
| Julia Sharp, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University | |
|
| 12/4/2015 |
| "High-dimensional Matrix Linear Regression Model" | |
| Dehan Kong, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina | |
|
| 12/11/2015 |
| "Spatiotemporal modeling with applications to stroke mortality and data privacy" | |
| Harrison Quick, Ph.D., Division of Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | |
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Spring 2015 | Director: Susmita Datta, Ph.D. |
|
| 3/27/15 |
| "Quantitative trait mapping methods with complex data sets" |
| Kathrine Thompson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky |
|
| 3/13/15 |
| "Utility of Sequentially Monitored Response-Adaptive Designs for Multi-Center Clinical Trials" |
| Mi-Ok Kim, PhD, Associate Professor, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center |
|
| 2/27/15 |
| "Systems biology of the clock" |
| Jonathan Arnold, PhD, Professor, Department of Genetics and Department of Statistics, University of Georgia |
|
| 2/26/15 |
| "Globally Adaptive Quantile Regression with High Dimensional Data" |
| Qi Zheng, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University |
|
| 1/30/15 |
| "Modeling of Correlated Objects with Application to Detection of Metastatic Cancer using Functional CT Imaging" |
| Yuan Wang, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas |
|
| 1/23/15 |
| "Multi-Sample Reweighted U-Statistics that Account for Confounding Covariates" |
| Somnath Datta, PhD, Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville |
|
| 1/16/15 |
| "Cluster Adjusted Regression for Displaced Subject Data (CARDS): Marginal Inference under Potentially Informative Temporal Cluster Size Profiles" |
| Joe Bible, PhD candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville |
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Fall 2014 | Director: Somnath Datta, Ph.D. |
|
| 11/7/14 |
| "Information in a Two-Stage Adaptive Optimal Design" |
| Adam Lane, PhD, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH |
|
| 10/31/14 |
| "GEE type inference for clustered zero-inflated negative binomial regression with application to dental caries" |
| Maiying Kong, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Information Sciences, University of Louisville |
|
| 10/17/14 |
| "Model Identification in Computational Systems Biology" |
| Eberhard O. Voit, PhD, Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Systems Biology, Wallace H Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology |
|
| 10/3/14 |
| "Real-Time Prediction in Clinical Trials: A Statistical History of REMATCH" |
| Daniel F. Heitjan, PhD, Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Epidemiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania |
|
| 9/19/14 |
| "Inverse Probability of Censoring Weighted U-statistics for Right-Censored Data with an Application to Testing Hypotheses" |
| Somnath Datta, PhD, Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
|
| 9/12/14 |
| "Evaluation of predictive accuracy measures in clinical data with competing risks" |
| Guy Brock, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville |
|
| 9/5/14 |
| "Sequential SDR for Large p Small n Problems" |
| Xiangrong Yin, PhD, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky |
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