2020-2021 Academic Year
Date | Speaker | Title |
May 6, 2021 | Sudipta Saha | Causal Inference Methods for Secondary Analysis of Randomized Screening Trials |
April 29, 2021 | Sumin Kim | Transcriptome-wide Association Study of Knee Osteoarthritis |
March 25, 2021 | Dongyang Yang | Unsupervised Clustering for Human Microbiome Sequencing Data |
March 25, 2021 | Linke Li | Generating High Utility Synthetic Data for Small Clinical Datasets |
March 23, 2021 | Clement Ma | Bayesian Adaptive Clinical Trials & Pediatric Oncology |
March 9, 2021 | Catherine Njue | COVID Research at Health Canada |
March 4, 2021 | Lehang Zhong | Modern profile likelihood inference: Application to differential gene expression analysis |
March 2, 2021 | Benjamin Haibe-Kains | Improving Reproducibility in Biostatistics and Machine Learning Research |
February 25, 2021 | Jiahui Zhang | Machine learning algorithm on longitudinal data and time-to-event outcomes |
February 23, 2021 | Divya Shama | Convolutional Neural Networks for Analysis and Prediction from Microbiome Data |
February 4, 2021 | Ziqian Zhuang | HDSI: High Dimensional Selection with Interactions Algorithm on Feature Selection |
February 4, 2021 | Sanjot Grewal | An Overview of Missing Data and Various Imputation Methods |
January 28, 2021 | Yao (Jenny) Li | Causal association of polygenic risk score for inflammatory bowel disease with psychiatric comorbidity |
January 28, 2021 | Larry Dong | An Overview of Dynamic Treatment Regimes and its Recent Extensions |
January 26, 2021 | Lennon Li | Intro to Spatial Statistics |
January 26, 2021 | Carmen Kong | An Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) |
January 21, 2021 | Yimeng (Naomi) Chang | Estimating Health Care Costs with Censored Data |
January 19, 2021 | Aya Mitani | How to Write Your Own R Package and Upload It to GitHub |
January 14, 2021 | Gengming He | Graphical LASSO and Gene Co-expression Network Analysis |
December 1, 2020 | Bei Jiang | Balancing Inferential Integrity and Disclosure Risk via Model Targeted Masking and Multiple Imputation |
November 24, 2020 | Vicky Landsman | Application of Overdispersion Models to Blinding Assessment |
November 19, 2020 | Sangook Kim | Genome-wide association tests in the presence of latent genetic interactions |
November 17, 2020 | Daniel Felsky | Linking Central and Peripheral Inflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease Using Integrative Statistical Approaches and Multi-'omics Data |
November 5, 2020 | Bo Chen | Causal variance decompositions for evaluating health care provider performance |
October 29, 2020 | Boxi Lin | Semiparametric Inference of Two Zero-excess Populations under A Density Ratio Model |
October 15, 2020 | Christopher Meaney | Phenotyping Electronic Health Records |
October 13, 2020 | C. F. Jeff Wu | cmenet - A new method for bi-level variable selection of conditional main effects (CMEs) |
October 8, 2020 | Alexandra Bushby | Data Visualization |
October 6, 2020 | Lisa Avery & Michael Rotondi | Investigating regression techniques for respondent-driven sampling with applications to cardiovascular disease in urban Indigenous communities |
September 24, 2020 | Derek Latremouille | Distance Concentration Phenomena in High-Dimensional Statistics & Machine Learning |
2019-2020 Academic Year
Date | Speaker | Title |
April 2, 2020 | Leif Erik Lovblom | Latent Trajectory Models for Longitudinal Data Analysis: Applications for Diabetes Complications |
April 2, 2020 | Yi Meng Chang | Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Data and Survival Endpoints |
March 26, 2020 | Kaviul Khan | Identifying Important Inputs for Black Box Machine Learning Methods |
March 26, 2020 | Jerry Lin | LIME & SHAP: Local Interpretable Explanations |
March 12, 2020 | Sumeet Kalia | Causal inference using electronic health records in primary care |
March 5, 2020 | Derek Latremouille | Distance Concentration Phenomena & Bayesian Mixture Models |
February 27, 2020 | Jiahui Zhang | Clustering colorectal cancer patients using longitudinal QoL measures |
February 13, 2020 | Boxi Lin | Robust methods for genetic association studies accounting for model uncertainties |
February 13, 2020 | Kuan Liu | A Bayesian latent class approach to causal inferencewith longitudinal data |
February 6, 2020 | Alex Bushby | Data Visualization in R |
February 4, 2020 | Yun-Hee Choi | Applications of Shared Frailty Models for Cancer Risk Estimation and Evaluation Using Clustered Time-to-event Data Arising from Family-based Genetic Studies |
January 30, 2020 | Rose Garrett | Analysis of irregularly observed longitudinal data in a Bayesian framework: leveraging physician-recommended gap times |
January 30, 2020 | Dongyang Yang | Clustering on Human Microbiome Sequencing Data |
January 28, 2020 | Samantha-Jo Caetano | Concordance Measures for Validating Time-to-event Models |
January 16, 2020 | Lehang Zhong | Differential gene expression analysis tools for RNA-seq data |
January 14, 2020 | Colin Preyra | Social Determinants in Health Care: What are They, How are They Measured, and Why Do They Matter? |
January 9, 2020 | Jason Cheng | Network Meta-Analysis: a Model for RepeatedMeasures and a Model for Multiple Outcomes |
November 28, 2019 | Sudipta Saha | Efficiency gain of subgroup effects in screening trials from covariate adjustment |
November 21, 2019 | Zihang Lu | Bayesian growth mixture model for clustering longitudinal data |
November 14, 2019 | Gengming He | Transcriptome-wide Association Study: Integrating GWAS with gene expression data |
November 5, 2019 | Jooyoung Lee | Weighting Estimators for Cox Regression for Studying Etiological Heterogeneity with Partially Observed Multiple Markers |
October 31, 2019 | Mohsen Soltanifar | Stop Signal Reaction Times: New Estimation Methods with Longitudinal, Bayesian and Time Series Based Methods |
October 24, 2019 | Thai-Son Tang | Methods for Causal Mediation Analysis with High Mediation Mediators |
October 17, 2019 | Xiaoqiong Joan Hu | Statistical Issues in Administrative Data Analysis |
October 10, 2019 | Olli Saarela | How to Publish a Methodological Paper |
October 3, 2019 | Mehdi Rostami | Neural Networks in Causal Inference |
September 26, 2019 | Michael Escobar | Some Comments on Giving a Seminar |
September 26, 2019 | Kuan Liu | Spatial Analysis of Cannabis and Tobacco Consumption among Youth and Adults |
September 24, 2019 | Pingzhao Hu | Integrative Bioinformatics Analysis for Identifying Breast Cancer Susceptibility Genes and Repurposing Drugs for Breast Cancer Using Genetic Information |
2018-2019 Academic Year
Date | Speaker | Title |
April 4, 2019 | Sumeet Kalia | Causal Inference in the Presence of Measurement Bias |
April 4, 2019 | Mehdi Rostami | Neural Networks in Causal Inference |
March 28, 2019 | Eman Abo Alya | Introduction to Statistical Methods in Precision Medicine |
March 28, 2019 | Mohsen Soltanifar | A Time Series based Point Estimation of Stop Signal Reaction Times |
March 21, 2019 | Mohammad Kaviul Anam Khan | Identifying Important Predictors for Black Box Machine Learning Methods |
March 21, 2019 | Shahriar Shams | Determining Number of Health States and Number of Participants in EQ-5D-3L Valuation Studies |
March 14, 2019 | Gengming He | From differential expression to differential networking: compare gene expression networking across human bronchial epithelia and nasal epithelia |
March 14, 2019 | Pai-Shan (Jason) Cheng | Network Meta-Analysis for Healthcare Decision Making |
March 12, 2019 | Victoria Landsman | Estimation of Domain Means from a Business Survey in Presence of Stratum Jumpers and Low Response Rate |
March 7, 2019 | Rose Garrett | Bayesian estimation of irregularity with longitudinal data |
March 7, 2019 | Hyejung Jung | Principal component analysis for ordinal data |
March 5, 2019 | Bruno Roza da Costa | Individual Patient Data Meta-analysis: Beyond the Grand Mean |
February 28, 2019 | Lehang Zhong | A Guide to Polygenic Risk Scores, its Limitations, and Beyond |
February 28, 2019 | Yu-Chung (Jerry) Lin | Robust Adjusted Profile Likelihood Ratios for the Analysis of Differential Gene Expression |
February 26, 2019 | Anna Heath | Value of Information as a Tool for Clinical Trial Design |
February 14, 2019 | Mitchell Sutton | Data Mining & Big Data Analysis of Health Administrative Data |
February 14, 2019 | Changchang Xu | Improving Mixture Cure Modelling of Multiple Molecular Factors in Cancer Prognosis (Penalized Likelihood Method for Mixture Cure Analysis on Multiple Imputed Data) |
February 7, 2019 | Derek Latremouille | Dimensionality Reduction for Dirichlet Process Mixture Regression |
January 31, 2019 | Erik Lovblom | The Statistical Evaluation of Diagnostic Medical Tests with Applications for the Screening of Diabetes Complications |
January 31, 2019 | Jingxiong (Amelia) Xu | A Bayes Factor Approach with Informative Prior for the Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data |
January 29, 2019 | Pingzhao Hu | Deep Learning for Magnetic Resonance Imaging-genomic Mapping of Invasive Breast Carcinoma |
January 24, 2019 | Thai-Son Tang | Study Designs for Causal Mediation Analysis in Randomized Controlled Trials |
January 24, 2019 | Dongyang Yang | Introduction of Statistical Methods on Microbiome Sequencing Data |
January 10, 2019 | Christopher Meaney | Learning Vector-Representations of Patient EMR Data: Applications in Medical Informatics Research |
November 29, 2018 | Kuan Liu | On Bayesian estimation of causal effect with a latent confounder class |
November 29, 2018 | Bo Chen | Causal variance decompositions for evaluating health care provider performance |
November 27, 2018 | Charlie Keown-Stoneman | Introduction, the TARGet Kids Registry, and Previous Research in Survival Analysis |
November 22, 2018 | Osvaldo Espin-Garcia | Optimal Two-phase Sampling Designs for post-Genome-wide Association Fine-mapping Studies |
November 20, 2018 | Bei Jiang | A Bayesian Approach to Joint Modeling of Matrix-valued Imaging Data and Treatment Outcome with Applications to Depression Studies |
November 15, 2018 | Sudipta Saha | Causal Inference Methods for Secondary Analysis and Planning of Randomized Screening Trials |
November 13, 2018 | Melanie Poulin-Costello & Matthew Kowgier | The Statistical Power of Drug Development |
November 8, 2018 | Zihang Lu | Bayesian variable selection with missing covariates in model-based clustering of longitudinal data |
November 6, 2018 | Susan Bondy | Introduction to and Applications of Epidemiology |
November 1, 2018 | Sangook Kim | Defining phenotypes with non-ignorable missingness on the basis of heritability: Application to lung disease in cystic fibrosis |
October 30, 2018 | Susan A. Murphy | Challenges in Developing Learning Algorithms to Personalize Treatment in Real Time |
October 25, 2018 | Armend Lokku | Summary metrics for irregular longitudinal data |
October 9, 2018 | Michael Escobar | Big Data analysis for understanding instead of predicting: an example with ICD-10 diagnostic codes and traumatic brain injury |
September 27, 2018 | Katherine Daignault | Causal mediation analysis for standardized mortality ratios |
September 25, 2018 | David Soave | Population Health Cohorts and Two-Phase Studies |