Biostatistics Working Group

September 4, 2001. Kevin Anstrom, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University. "Utilizing Propensity Scores to Estimate Causal Treatment Effects with Censored Time-Lagged Data" (Abstract).
September 25, 2001. Anastasios A. (Butch) Tsiatis , Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University. "Efficient Estimation of the Mean of a Time-Lagged Variable Subjet to Right Censoring" (Abstract) and (Slides in PostScript or PDF )
October 2, 2001. Daowen Zhang , Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University. "Linear and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with Flexible Random Effects Distribution for Longitudinal Data" (Abstract) and (Slides in PostScript or PDF )
October 30, 2001. Andrew Allen, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University. "Testing for Transmission Distortion with Informatively Missing Parental Genotype Data" (Abstract).
November 27, 2001. Haibo Zhou , Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "A Semiparametric Empirical Likelihood Method for Data From An Outcome Dependent Sampling Scheme With A Continuous Outcome" (Abstract).