Biostatistics Working Group

March 29, 2005 (Tuesday), don't miss the opportunity to see Jamie Robins, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, speak on "Optimal Sequential Decisions and Causal Inference" as part of the SAMSI Distinguished Lecture series, 4:30-5:30 pm, in Research Triangle Park (see this web site for location and directions). Dr. Robins is internationally-known for his ground-breaking work in the areas of missing data and causal inference; see his research page.
April 7, 2005 (Thursday), Marie Davidian, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State Univerisity. "Semiparametric Estimation of Treatment Effect in a Pretest-Posttest Study" (Abstract)
April 8, 2005 (Friday), Department of Statistics Seminar, Hua Yun Chen, "Approximation to Locally Semiparametric Efficient Scores in Missing Data Problems Through Likelihood Robustification" (Abstract)
April 21, 2005 (Thursday), Xianzheng (Shan) Huang, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State Univerisity. "Model Robustness in Structural Measurement Error Modeling" (Abstract)