Biostatistics Working Group

September 4, 2003 (Thursday). Joe Ibrahim, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "A Class of Bayesian Box-Cox Transformation Hazard Regression Models" (Abstract)
September 25, 2003 (Thursday). Marie Davidian, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University. "What is Bio(medical)statistics?" (Abstract) and Slides (pdf) (LaTeX alert: source code for these slides available under "Resources for oral presentations" at the ST 810A web page)
Ootober 3, 2003 (Friday). Special joint Biomedical/Environmental lunchtime seminar!!! Brad Carlin , Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota. "Hierarchical Models for Spatio-Temporally Correlated Public Health Data" (Abstract). Professor Carlin will also give the NCSU Department of Statistics seminar on the same afternoon.
October 16, 2003 (Thursday). Yuliya Lokhnygina, , Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University. "Methods for Inference, Estimation and Planning of Two-stage Randomization Designs in Clinical Trials" (Abstract)
November 6, 2003 (Thursday). Lisa LaVange, Vice President, Biostatistics and Data Management, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. "Statistics in Pharmaceutical Research" (Abstract)
November 20, 2003 (Thursday). Huiman Barnhart, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University. "Statistical Methods for Multivariate Random Length Data" (Abstract)