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BIOSTATISTICS STUDENT PRESENTATIONS More info at www.sph.umn.edu/biostatistics Biostatistics Student Presentations 2013

Date Presenter Topic

Aug. 16, 1 p.m. Mayo A301

Yiwei Zhang

Two Topics in Association Analysis of DNA Sequencing

Aug. 16, 10 a.m. Mayo A301

Hwanhee Hong

Hierarchical Bayesian Methods for Multiple Outcomes in Mixed Treatment Comparisons

Aug. 14, 1 p.m. Mayo D199

Craig Meyer Associations of Self-reported Depression and Racial Discrimination with Brain Tissue Volumes: The CARDIA Study

Aug. 2, 10 a.m. Mayo A301

Heather Jerry Sequential Stratification Methods Applied to the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study Data

July 30, 10 a.m. Mayo A301

Harrison Quick Spatiotemporal Gradient Modeling with Applications

July 10, 1 p.m. Mayo D199

Tingting Zhao, master’s candidate

Two-part Mixture Model for Cigarette Purchase Task Data


Sharmistha Guha, master’s candidate

A Powerful Parsimonious Tree based Model Averaging Approach for Detection of Multi-Locus Effects

June 10, 10 a.m. Mayo D199

Jaejoon Song

The Association of Two Correlated Biomarkers, Each Measured with Error, on Clinical Outcome

June 7, 1 p.m. Mayo A301

Xiaohui Cui, master’s candidate Plan B advisor: John Hughes

Implementing Pseudolikelihood and Bayesian Inference for the Centered Autologistic Model in R and C++


Feb 13, 2 p.m. Mayo A110

Brad Lewis, master’s candidate Plan B advisor: Dipankar Bandyopadhyay

0-1 Augmented Beta Regression using the SAS NLMIXED Procedure

Biostatistics Student Presentations 2012

Monday, March 26, 10 a.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: Wenjie Liao, Masters candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Xianghua Luo

Topic: Analysis of Drug Purchase Task Instrument Data: A Statistical Perspective

Tuesday, March 27, 11 a.m. Mayo A434

Presenter: Rajarshi Guhaniyogi, Ph.D candidate in Biostatistics Ph.D. Advisor: Dr. Sudipto Banerjee

Topic: Modeling Complex Spatial Dependencies: Low-rank Spatially-varying Cross-covariances with Application to Soil Nutrient Data

Tuesday, April 17, 9 a.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: Liangxing Zou, Masters candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Jim Hodges

Topic: Evaluation of Nephrotoxicity of De Novo Rapamune Use and Association between ESRD and Baseline Urine Albumin and Protein in Kidney-Transplant Recipients: A Longitudinal Observation Study

Friday, May 11, 1:15 p.m. Mayo A110

Presenter: Patrick Hilden, Masters candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Dipankar Bandyopadhyay

Topic: Analysis of Correlated Count Data with Excess Zeros via the SAS NLMIXED Procedure

Tuesday, May 15, 10 a.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: Xiaoye Ma, Masters candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Haitao Chu

Topic: Statistical Methods for Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Tests

Wednesday, May 23, 1 p.m. Mayo A110

Presenter: Kristopher Kapphahn, Masters candidate in

Topic: Effects of Covariate Missingness and Bias Reduction Strategies for Network Effect Inference in Social Network Data


Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Richard MacLehose

Monday, June 11, 11 a.m. Mayo D199

Presenter: Donghwi Shin, Masters Candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Jim Neaton

Topic: Handling Missing Data in Clinical Trials: A Case Study of Different Estimands for Comparing Treatments in a Clinical Trial of Chronic Pain

Monday, July 16, 3 p.m. CCBR Ballroom

Presenter: Christopher Miller, Masters Candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Julian Wolfson

Topic: ThrEEBoost: Thresholded EEBoost Algorithm for Prediction and Variable Selection with High-Dimensional Data

Tuesday, July 24, 2 p.m. Mayo D199

Presenter: Sarah Verdoliva, Masters Candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Cavan Reilly

Topic: A Bayesian Approach to Test for Differences in Paired Metabolomics Data with Many Zeros

Thursday, July 26, 10:30 a.m. Mayo D199

Presenter: Kristen Cunanan, Masters Candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Joe Koopmeiners

Topic: Evaluating the Performance of Copula Models under Model Misspecification in Phase 1 Clinical Trials

Wednesday, July 25, 10 a.m. Mayo 1250

Presenter: Sunkyung Kim, Ph.D. Candidate in Biostatistics Ph.D. Advisor: Wei Pan

Topic: New Penalized Regression Approaches to Analysis of Genetic and Genomic Data

Friday, August 17, 10 a.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: João Vitor Dias Monteiro, Ph.D. Candidate in Biostatistics Ph.D. Advisor: Sudipto Banerjee

Topic: Process-based Bayesian Melding of Occupational Exposure Models and Industrial Workplace Data

Tuesday, August 21, 10 a.m.

Presenter: Wei Zhong, Ph.D. Candidate in

Topic: Bayesian Adaptive Designs in Phase I/II Clinical Trials


Mayo A301 Biostatistics Ph.D. Advisors: Brad Carlin & Joe Koopmeiners

Thursday, August 30, 12 p.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: Shuzhen Li, Ph.D. Candidate in Biostatistics Ph.D. Advisor: Lynn Eberly

Topic: Statistical Modeling of Signal Detection in fMRI Data

Friday, August 31, 2 p.m., Mayo A434

Presenter: Qian Ren, Ph.D. Candidate in Biostatistics Ph.D. Advisor: Sudipto Banerjee

Topic: On Some Computational, Modeling and Design Issues in Bayesian Analysis of Spatial Data

Thursday, September 27, 1.30 p.m., Mayo A301

Presenter: Rachel Roberts, Masters Candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

Topic: Temporal Analysis for the Characterization of Postural Sway Dynamics and Complexity in Schizophrenia


Tuesday, Dec. 13,11:30 a.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: Kelsey Walt, masters candidate in Biostatistics PhD Advisors: Dr. Kyle Rudser

Topic: Using Relative Risk Regression to Estimate the Risk of Otitis Media in Minnesota American Indians under the Age of Two

Friday, Dec. 9, 9:30 a.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: Ran Li, PhD candidate in Biostatistics PhD Advisors: Dr. Baolin Wu and Dr. Brad Carlin

Topic: Statistical Methods for Gene Set Based Prediction and Clustering Analysis of Microarrays

Friday, Nov. 4, 10 a.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: Xiting Cao, PhD candidate in Biostatistics PhD Advisors: Dr. Baolin Wu and Dr. Wei Pan

Topic: Statistical Methods for Multi-class Differential Gene Expression Detection

Wednesday, Oct. 19, 12:30 p.m. CCBR Ballroom

Presenter: Liying Luo, Masters candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Jim Hodges

Topic: Assessing Validity and Application Scope of an Intrinsic Estimator Approach to the Age-Period-Cohort Problem


Monday, Sept. 19, 2:30 p.m. CCBR Ballroom

Presenter: Li-Yu Lin, Masters candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor:Lynn Eberly

Topic: Epilepsy Incidence in United States Nursing Home

Wednesday, Sept. 14, 1:50 p.m. Mayo D199

Presenter: Lingzhi Li, Masters candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Weihua Guan

Topic: Selection in Multi-maker Test for Genetic Association

Thursday, Sept. 1, 2:30 p.m. Mayo D199

Presenter: Jing Zhang, Masters candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Haitao Chu

Topic: Bayesian Inference for Case-control Studies with Multiple Non-gold Standard Exposure Assessments: with an Application in Occupational Health

Tuesday, Aug. 30, 3 p.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: Yan Hu, Masters candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Daniel Sargent

Topic: Sample Size Calculation for a Flexible Screening Trial

Friday, Aug. 26, 1:30 p.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: Xiaoyan Sheng, Masters candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisors: Lynn Eberly and James Hodges

Topic: Some Operating Characteristics of the Random Survival Forest Algorithm

Thursday, Aug. 25, 10 a.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: Andrew Wey, Masters candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Kyle Rudser

Topic: Recursive Partitioning Based Weights for Censored Quantile Regression

Monday, Aug. 8, 1 p.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: Laura Hatfield, Ph.D candidate in Biostatistics Ph.D. Advisor: Brad Carlin

Topic: Bayesian Hierarchical Joint Modeling for Longitudinal and Survival Data

Friday, July 1, 10 a.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: Sang Mee Lee, Ph.D candidate in Biostatistics Ph.D. Advisors: Baolin Wu and Wei Pan

Topic: Statistical Methods for Gene Set Based Significance Analysis

Monday, June 20, 1:30 p.m.

Presenter: Binglin Yue, Masters candidate in

Topic: Commonality Analysis for Survival Data, with an Application to Data from


Mayo 1250 Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Xianghua Luo

Breast Cancer Patients with Newly Diagnosed Brain Metastases

Wednesday, May 4, 1 p.m. Mayo D325/D327

Presenter: Thomas Murray, Masters candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan

Topic: Empirical Comparison of Comorbidity Adjustment Techniques in Dialysis Populations

Friday, Feb. 11, 2 p.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: Paul Zantek, Masters candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Tim Hanson

Topic: Estimation and Testing of Decision-Dependence in Stochastic Processes with Application to Reliability of Repairable Systems


December 17, 8:30 a.m. Mayo D199

Presenter: Yaming Chen, Masters candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: John Connett

Topic: Comparison of Negative-Binomial and Extra-Poisson Models for Over-dispersed Count Data: A Simulation-based Study

December 15, 3:10 p.m. Mayo A434

Presenter: Xiaoxiao Kong, Ph.D. candidate in Biostatistics Ph.D. Advisor: Cavan Reilly

Topic: Motif Discovery with Conditional Log-linear Models

September 27, 1:30 p.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: Pei Li, Ph.D. candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Sudipto Banerjee

Topic: Bayesian Approaches for Detecting Boundaries in Areally-Referenced Datasets

September 10, 1 p.m. Mayo A301

Presenter:Chong Luo, Master’s candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan

Topic: A Two-Step Algorithm in Penalized Regression with Networked Predictors

August 25, 10 a.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: Brian Hobbs, Ph.D. candidate in Biostatistics

Topic: Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Adaptive Incorporation of Historical Information in Clinical Trials


Ph.D. Advisor: Brad Carlin

August 24, 1 p.m. Mayo A110

Presenter:Akweley Ablor, Master’s candidate in Biostatistics Ph.D. Advisor: Will Thomas

Topic: Influence of Childhood Victimization on Risk of Vulvodynia: Modeling Odds Ratios and Interaction in Matched Case Control Data

August 19, 10 a.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: Eddie Bendert, Master’s candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Kyle Rudser

Topic: Design Considerations in the Presence of Subgroups with Different Expected Treatment Effects


Presenter: Adrian Tan, Master’s candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Saonli Basu

Topic: Effects of Population Stratification on Logistic Regression and an Alternative to Achieving Greater Power

August 11, 10 a.m. CCBR Ballroom

Presenter: Anne Eaton, Master’s candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Patricia Grambsch

Topic: Comparing the Effects of Various Methods for Estimating Survival with Prevalent Cohort Data under Violation of the Independent Truncation Assumption


Presenter: Ning Chen, Master’s candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

Topic: Immortal Time Bias resulting from an Incident Event Following an Incident Exposure


Presenter: Emily Zabor, Master’s candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Brad Carlin

Topic: Adaptive Controlled Dose Escalation with Multiple Individual Covariates for Phase I Clinical Trials

July 9, 1 p.m. Mayo A301

Presenter: Brunna Alves, MPH candidate in biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Melanie Wall

Topic: Examing the Association of Postpartum Weight Retention with Gestational Weight Gain


Presenter: Jonathan Chipman Master’s Candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Jim Neaton

Topic: Motivating DSMB Discussion Regarding START Risks and Benefits and Whether to Recommend Continuing or Stopping START at Interim Analyses


Presenter: Wei Feng Master’s candidate in Biostatistics

Topic: Comparison of Combination Methods in Pathway-based Analysis


Plan B Advisor: Saonli Basu

June 30, 10 a.m. Mayo A110

Presenter: Ryan Shanley Master’s candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Xianghua Luo

Topic: A Comparison of Two New Prognostic Indices for Breast Cancer Patients with Brain Metastases Using Cox Regression and Recursive Partitioning


Presenter: Gayle Johnson Master’s candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Richard MacLehose

Topic: “Uterine Fibroids and Time to Conception”

June 15, 9:30 a.m. Mayo A110

Presenter: Nan Zhang Master’s candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Richard MacLehose

Topic: ”The Influence of Childhood Social Support and Lifetime Victimization on Risk of First Onset of Depression during the Late Reproductive Years”

June 11, 10:30 a.m. May A110

Presenter: Jiayan Huang Master’s candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: John Connett and Rob Leduc

Topic: Comparison of Several Methods of Hierarchical Cluster Analysis Applied to Continuous and Categorical Data

May 21, 10:30 a.m.

Mayo D199 Presenter: Jeremiah Menk Masters Candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Melanie Wall

Topic: An Evaluation of Model Based and Algorithmic Based Methods for Clustering Dichotomous Data

May 18, 10 a.m. Mayo A434

Presenter: Hui Zhou Masters Candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan

Topic: Penalized Joint Regression Modeling of Partial Correlations with Application to Detecting Altered Gene Networks

May 17, 10 a.m. Mayo D199

Presenter: Fang Han Masters Candidate in Biostatistics Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan

Topic: Latent Multivariate Gaussian Model for Multiple SNPs in Linkage Disequilibrium with application to Genetic Association Testing

April 20, 3 p.m. Mayo A434

Presenter: Wenjun Kang Plan B Advisor: Melanie Wall

Topic: “Exploring the Effects of Including Spatial Random Effects in Disease Mapping Using the SAS GLIMMIX Macro”

Jan. 20, 12 Presentor: Olive Buhule Topic: Modeling Diabetes Mellitus Disease


p.m. Mayo A301

Plan B Advisor: Tim Hanson Progression


Friday January 23 9:45AM Mayo A301

Yufen Zhang PhD Advisor: Jim Hodges

Extending Smoothed Analysis of Variance to New Problems

Wednesday May 27 2:00pm Mayo D199

Jessica Musselman Plan B Advisor: Melanie Wall

Development of Childhood Home Environment Dimensions related to Alcohol Consumption Behaviors: A latent variable analysis of the SSAGA

Friday June 5 9:00am Mayo A110

Qian Ren Plan B Advisor: Sudipto Banerjee

Variational Bayesian Method for Spatial Data Analysis

Thursday June 18 10:00am Mayo 1250

Peng Wei PhD Advisor: Wei Pan

Network-based Mixture Models for Genomic Data

Friday June 26 1:00pm Mayo A110

Lijuan Shen Plan B Advisor: Brad Carlin

Bayesian Change Point Survival Analysis of Androgen Suppression Therapy Utilization Patterns for Men with Prostate Cancer, 2000-2005

Wednesday July 8 11:00am Mayo A110

Matt Rousseau Plan B Advisor: Xianghua Luo

Determining the Impact of Donor KIR Genotypes on AML Patients Who Underwent HCT Using Ordinary and Competing Risks Survival Data

Thursday July 9 10:00am Mayo A301

Matt Deyo-Svendsen Plan B Advisor: Tracy Bergemann

Estimation of Gene-Gene Interactions in Case-Parent Triad Studies in the Presence of Missing Data

Wednesday August 12

Yanni Zhu PhD Advisor: Wei

Network-Based Support Vector Machines for Classification of Microarray Gene Expression Data


1:00pm Mayo D199

Pan

Wednesday August 12 2:00pm Mayo A110

Keegan Hasselmann Plan B Advisor: David Nelson

Simulation to Evaluate Methods for Combining Propensity Stratification with Methods to Address Missing Confounders in Observational Studies

Friday August 14 11:00am Mayo A301

Stacia Kraus Plan B Advisor: Sue Duval

Coronary Artery Plaque Formation and Location in High Intensity, Long Term Athletes


David Schladt Plan B Advisor: Saonli Basu

Genetic-based Association between Select UGT Drug Metabolizing Genes and Plasma Triglyceride and Lipoprotein Lowering Response to Fenofibric Acid

Thursday August 20 1:00pm Mayo D199

Wei Zhong Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan

Power Comparison of Statistical Tests of Association with Multiple SNPs with the GAW 16 Rheumatoid Arthritis Data


Yafeng Zhang Plan B Advisor: Patricia Grambsch

Estimating the Effect of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy on Death, AIDS and CD4 Cell Counts Decrease in HIV-infected patients with High CD4 Cell Counts using Marginal Structural Models

Monday November 9 2:00pm Mayo A434

Xiaochun Zhu Plan B Advisor: John Connett

Simulation Based Comparison of Estimation of Power by Negative Binomial Model and Life Table Method in Analysis of Count Data


Wednesday January 16 10:00 AM Mayo A110

Luping Zhao PhD Advisors: Tim Hanson and Brad Carlin

Mixtures of Dependent Polya Trees in the Proportional Hazards Model

Monday Juanran Feng Predictation of Glomerular Filtration Rate from Serum


January 28 2:00 PM Mayo A434

Plan B Advisor: William Thomas

Creatinine and Cystatin C in Kidney Transplant Patients

Friday April 4 9:00am Mayo A110

Joshua Rapkin Plan B Advisors: James Neaton and Tim Hanson

Applying the Varying Location and Dispersion Accelerated Failure Time (VLDAFT) Model to the Flexible Initial Retrovirus Suppressive Therapies (FIRST) Trial

Friday April 11 1:00pm Mayo A301

Xiaobo Liu Plan B Advisor: William Thomas

Illness-Death Model for Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes

Wednesday April 16 3:45 PM Mayo A434

Qun Shi Plan B Advisor: Jim Hodges

Mechanism of the Bacteriophage ø29 DNA-Packing Motor

Friday May 2 2:30pm CCBR Ballroom

Rachel Isaksson Plan B Advisor: James Neaton

Simulation to Estimate Sample Size for the Strategic Timing of Anti-Retroviral Treatment (START) Trial

Monday May 19 1:00 pm Mayo A110

Laura Hatfield Plan B Advisor: Brad Carlin

Spatiotemporal and Threshold Models for Relating UV Exposures and Skin Cancer in the Central United States

Tuesday June 24 2:30pm Mayo A434

Zhenyu Pan Plan B Advisor: Tim Hanson

Bayesian Model Comparison on Cattle Abortion Data

Friday July 11 9:30am Mayo A301

Haowen Cai Plan B Advisor: Sudipto Banerjee

Hierarchical modeling for spatially-referenced longitudinal data with applications to crop growth

Thursday July 17 9:30am Mayo A301

Jonathan Johnson Plan B Advisor: Chap Le

Impact of Weight Loss on Circulating Renin-Angiotensin Hormones

Friday Xiao Liu Analysis of Incomplete Longitudinal Data: Anti-tumor


July 25 1:00pm Mayo A301

Plan B Advisor: Xianghua Luo

Activities of Angiogenesis Inhibitors

Monday July 28 1:00pm Mayo A301

Ann M. Brearley Plan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

Reliability of Breast Cancer MRS Biomarker Concentration Measurements

Thursday August 21 3:00pm Mayo A434

Jiaqi Yang Plan B Advisor: Baolin Wu

A Statistical Method for Improved Genotype Calling of High-Throughput SNP Arrays

Tuesday August 26 10:00am Mayo A110

Katie Schomaker Plan B Advisor: Hongfei Guo

Evaluating the Treatment Effect with Actigraphy Data: A Comparison of Two Methods of Data Analysis

Wednesday August 27 10:00am Mayo D199

Benhuai Xie Ph.D. Advisor: Wei Pan

Variable Selection in Penalized Model-Based Clustering

Wednesday August 27 2:30pm Mayo D199

Xiting Cao Ph.D. Advisor: Baolin Wu

Empirical Bayes Modeling with Optimal Discovery Procedure for Improved Significance Testing of Microarray Data

Wednesday September 3 2:30pm Mayo A434

Wei He Plan B Advisor: Tim Hanson

Longitudinal Analysis of the Association between Childhood and Adolescence Violence Victimization and Menstrual Cycle Length During the Late Premenopausal Years

Wednesday September 17 2:00pm CCBR Ballroom

Shengde Liang Ph.D. Advisor: Brad Carlin

Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling of Geostatistical and Spatial Point Process Data

Friday September 19 3:00pm

Melissa Warden Plan B Advisor: Sudipto Banerjee

Spatial data analysis suite in open-source software: GRASS and R A tutorial using West Nile virus in Minnesota in 2005


Mayo A434

Thursday October 2 11:15am Mayo A301

Qingqing Yang Plan B Advisor: Melanie Wall

Multiple Latent Class Analysis

Friday October 3 11:15am Mayo A434

Christopher Anderson Plan B Advisor: Patricia Grambsch

An Update to the Rate Tables for the Survival Package in S-Plus/R


Jianmin Liu Plan B Advisor: Judy Punyko

Comparison of Imputation Methods for Survey Data

Monday October 27 9:30am Mayo A434

Nick Wold Plan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

Self-Rated Health and Depression: A Cross-Sectional Study of Women in Rural Nicaragua


Hua He Plan B Advisor: Saonli Basu

Power of Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction, Pair-wise Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction and Penalized Logistic Regression for Detecting Gene-Gene Interaction in a Case-Control Study


Feng Tai Ph.D. Advisor: Wei Pan

Incorporate Gene Network Structure into Bayesian Variable Selection


Xiang Li Plan B Advisor: Na Li

Single-SNP Association Analysis in Genome-wide Association Studies

Monday December 8 10:00am Mayo A434

Meijuan Li Ph.D. Advisor: Cavan Reilly

Statistical Models for a Censored Quantitative Trait and Candidate Genes Association Mapping in Structured Populations with Multilevel Genetic Relatedness

Monday December

Qinlei Huang Plan B Advisor:

Estimating Average Treatment Effects on the Alcoholism Abstinence using Propensity Score and


22 2:00pm Mayo A434

Melanie Wall Non-Response Weighting Adjustments


Friday February 9 10:00 AM Mayo D325

Hong Ge Plan B Advisor: Melanie Wall

Longitudinal Trends in Quality of Life and Predicting Survival in Heart Failure Patients

Friday February 23 11:30 AM Mayo A110

Na Yuan Plan B Advisor: John Connett

Comparison of the Matching on Propensity Score and on Multiple Variables in Studying the Relationship Between Beta Carotene and Lung Cancer in The Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT) Study

Monday March 5 2:30 PM Mayo A434

Yi Peng Plan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

Likelihood Ratio Test of Variance Components in General Linear Mixed Model comparing Group-Specific Random Intercepts to Group-Specific Random Intercepts and Slopes

Wednesday March 7 10:00 AM CCBR Ballroom

Brian Hobbs Plan B Advisor: Brad Carlin

Practical Bayesian Design and Analysis for Drug and Device Clinical Trials

Friday March 23 1:00 PM Mayo A110

Dan Wang Plan B Advisor: Chap Le

Implementation of Goodman’s and Piantadosi’s Continual Reassessment Methods

Tuesday April 3 3:30 PM CCBR Ballroom

Tarek Haddad Plan B Advisor: Jim Hodges

Smoothing Interactions in Analysis of Variance Using the Simplex Priors

Monday April 9 2:00 PM Mayo A434

Hua Tian Plan B Advisor: Melanie Wall

Applied Statistical Analysis on Rat Tumor Data


Monday April 23 1:00 PM CCBR Ballroom

Nicholas Salkowski Plan B Advisor: Tim Hanson

Modeling Association in Bivariate Ordinal Responses: Two Approaches and a New SAS Macro

Wednesday May 30 2:30 PM Mayo 1250

Ran Li Plan B Advisor: Melanie Wall

Multiple Indicator Hidden Markov Modelwith an Application to Medical Utilization Data

Monday June 25 9:30 AM Mayo D199

Min Xi Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan

A Simulation Based Power Analysis Approach to Determine Sample Size and Sub-Sampling Strategy in a Safety Intervention Study

Friday June 29 10:00 AM Mayo D325

Pei Li Plan B Advisor: Sudipto Banerjee

Mining for Edge Effects in Areally Referenced Spatial Data: An Approach Using the Bayesian Information Criteria

Tuesday July 31 10:00 AM Mayo A110

Haiying Lin Plan B Advisor: Chap Le

Use of Repeated Measures Analysis for Evaluation of Tobacco Biomarker Changes in a Smokeless Tobacco Brand Awitching Study

Monday August 13 2:00PM Mayo D325

Daniel Dvorkin Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan

Predicting Gene Coexpression by Integrating the Gene Ontology with Microarray Data

Monday September 10 1:00PM Mayo A434

Jia Xu Plan B Advisor: Jim Neaton

A Comparison of the Importance of Different Lipid Metrics for Predicting Coronary, Cardiovascular, and Stroke Mortality in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial

Tuesday September 24 3:00PM Mayo D325

Xiaoxiao Kong Plan B Advisor: Na Li

A Simulation Study Comparing Expectation Substitution and Full Maximum Likelihood Methods in Haplotype-based Genetic Association Analysis

Monday October 1 10:00am

Zhi Huang Plan B Advisor: Tracy Bergemann

Missing Data Imputation in Case-parent Triad Studies


Mayo A110

Tuesday October 2 3:15PM Mayo A434

Fang Liu Plan B Advisor: Baolin Wu

Multi-Class Cancer Outlier Differential Gene Expression Detection

Monday October 15 2:30PM Mayo A434

Benhuai Xie Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan

Prediction of Kidney Transplant Acute Rejection with SNPs: A Comparison of Penalized Logistic Regression and Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction

Monday November 19 12:00PM Mayo A434

Milan Seth Plan B Advisor: Saonli Basu

A Logistic Regression model for Quantitative Trait Locus linkage Analysis

Tuesday November 27 3:00PM Mayo A434

Yanni Zhu Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan

Identifying the Association between SNPs and Acute Rejection in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Comparison of Logistic Regression and Logic Regression

Friday November 30 2:30pm Mayo A434

Qi Wang Plan B Advisors: John Connett and Robert Leduc

Unbiased Estimation of Rates of Decline of CD4+ Cell Counts in the presence of Censoring

Tuesday December 18 10:00am Mayo A434

Yue Cui Ph.D. Advisor: Jim Hodges

Smoothing Analysis of Variance for General Designs and Partitioning Degrees of Freedom in Hierarchical and Other Richly-parameterized Models.

Friday December 21 10:00am Mayo A301

Xinyu Zhou Plan B Advisor: Melanie Wall

Employee Behavior Study – A Two-level Latent Class Approach



Tuesday January 24 2:30 PM Mayo A434

Wenjun Ma Plan B Advisor: Jim Neaton and Patricia Grambsch

Effect of Hydrochlorothiazide vs. Atenolol on Health Outcomes among Different Times of Day

Wednesday February 22 1:30pm Mayo A301

Hongyan Qiao Plan B Advisor: John Connett

Modeling of Smoking Cessation Behavior

Monday April 24 1:30pm Mayo A434

Rui Zhang Plan B Advisor: Jim Neaton

Implementation of a minimization algorithm and comparison with other allocation methods

Wednesday April 26 1:00pm Mayo A301

Gregg Lind Plan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

PedSeer: A set of computer programs for visualizing, modifying, and repairing pedigree data

Wednesday June 28 4:00pm Mayo A434

Zang Xiong Plan B Advisor: Jim Neaton

A Joint Analysis of Randomized and Non-Randomized Data Aimed at Estimating the Effect of Efavirenz and Nevirapine on Lipid Changes among Antiretroviral-Therapy-Naive Patients Infected With HIV Who Are Starting Treatment

Thursday July 20 4:00pm CCBR Ballroom

Vaughn Berry Plan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

Cause-Specific Mortality in Relation to Body Mass Index among Men from the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial

Monday July 24 10:00am Mayo D327

Peng Wei Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan

Incorporating Gene Functions into Regression Analysis of DNA-Protein Binding Data and Gene Expression Data to Construct Transcriptional Networks

Tuesday July 25 9:30am CCBR Ballroom

Qing Cao Plan B Advisor: Jim Hodges

Baseline Serum Antibodies and Measures of Infection in the Obstetrics and Periodontal Therapy Trial

Monday July 31

Adele Golden Plan B Advisor:

Comparison of Nonlinear Mixed Effect Model Fitting in SAS® and SPLUS®: NLMIXED vs. NLME Procedure


3:00pm Mayo A301

Lynn Eberly

Tuesday August 1 9:30am Mayo A110

Haijun Ma PhDAdvisor: Brad Carlin

Bayesian Hierarchical Boundary Analysis for Areal Public Health Data

Wednesday August 16 11:00am CCBR Ballroom

Shweta Sharma Plan B Advisor: John Connett

Comparison of Fisher Information and Bootstrap Estimates of Variance for Logistic Regression Parameters

Monday August 21 10:00am Mayo D199

Yang Xie PhD Advisors: Wei Pan and Arkady Khodursky

Integrated Analysis of Genomic Data to Study Gene Regulation

Tuesday August 22 10:00am Mayo D199

Guanghua Xiao PhD Advisor: Wei Pan

Integrating Biological Knowledge and Other Sources of Data into Microarray Data Analysis

Friday August 25 12:00pm Mayo A301

Yan Zheng PhD Advisor: Cavan Reilly and Wei Pan

Topics in the Low-level Analysis of Microarrays

Monday August 28 1:00pm CCBR Ballroom

Freda Cooner PhD Advisor: Sudipto Banerjee and Bradley P. Carlin

Latent Activation Cure Rate Modeling for Time-To-Event Data

Wednesday August 30 9:30am Mayo A301

Jay Pottala Plan B Advisor: John Connett

Diabetes Care Improvement Analysis

Friday September 15 11:30am Mayo A301

Yi He PhD Advisor: Jim Hodges

Bayesian Analysis of Real-Time RT-PCR Data with Right Censoring


Monday October 2 9:30am CCBR Ballroom

Jia Guo PhD Advisor: Melanie Wall

Biostatistical Models with Latent Variables

Tuesday November 21 2:30pm Mayo A110

Colleen Curran Plan B Advisor: Patricia Grambsch

Comparing Methods for Calculating the Number of Bins in a Histogram for the Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test


Friday May 6 3:00 PM Mayo D260

Scott Wehrenberg Plan B Advisor: Jim Hodges

Investigating the Accuracy of the Asymptotic Approximation of Gray’s Competing Risk Analysis

Tuesday May 31 1:30 PM Mayo A387/389

Yinghui Wang Plan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

Performance of the Selection Model on the Simulated Longitudinal Data with Informative and Random Drop-out

Wednesday June 8 10:00am CCBR Ballroom

Xiaoping Jin PhD Advisor: Brad Carlin

Multivariate Lattice Models for Areal Data with Application to Multiple Disease Mapping

Wednesday June 15 10:00am Jackson 2-137

Jarad Niemi Plan B Advisor: Brad Carlin

Identifying and Evaluating Contrarian Strategies for NCAA Tournament Pools

Monday June 27 9:00am Mayo A387/389

Bingbing Li PhD Advisor: Patricia Grambsch

Sample Size Calculation in Survival Trials Accounting for Time-Dependent Dynamics of Noncompliance and Risk


Wednesday June 29 10:00am CCBR Ballroom

Feng Tai Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan

Modelling Kappa by using Generalized Estimate Equations with Applications to RDC/TMD Study

Thursday June 30 2:00pm Mayo A387/389

Qian An Plan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for the Variance Components in a General Linear Mixed Model

Tuesday July 19 9:30am Mayo A387/389

Fangyu Kan Plan B Advisor: James Neaton

Comparison of Sample Size Calculation Programs for Complex Clinical Trials with Survival Endpoints

Monday July 25 10:00am Mayo A387/389

Haolan Lu PhD Advisor: Brad Carlin and Jim Hodges

Measuring the Complexity of Generalized Linear Hierarchical Models and Bayesian Areal Wombling for Boundary Analysis

Friday July 29 10:00am Mayo A387/389

Brian Reich PhD Advisor: Jim Hodges

Effects of Residual Smoothing on the Posterior of the Fixed Effects in Disease-mapping Models

Tuesday August 2 10:00am Mayo A387/389

Wanling Xie Plan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

Comparison of Two Diagnostic Procedures “Cook’s Distance” and “Conditional Cook’s Distance” in Linear Mixed Models

Thursday August 11 9:30am Mayo A387/389

Yi-Chen Wu Plan B Advisor: Na Li

Exploring Positional Candidate Genes: Linkage Conditional on SNP Genotypes

Friday August 12 2:00pm Mayo

Luping Zhao Plan B Advisor: John Connett

A SAS/MACRO Program That Provides Smoothed Estimates of Hazard Curves in Survival Analysis


A387/389

Friday August 19 9:00am CCBR Ballroom

Qi Li Plan B Advisor: James Neaton

The Evaluation of Effect of Clinical Research Site Size on Performance in Two Randomized Multicenter Clinical Trials

Thursday September 1 9:30am Mayo A387/389

Helen Haiyun Fan Plan B Advisor: Sudipto Banerjee

A Simulation-Based Framework for Bayesian Sample Size Calculations

Tuesday September 6 4:00pm CCBR Ballroom

Shengde Liang Plan B Advisor: Sudipto Banerjee

Multi-Resolution Spatial Modelling with Application to Replicated Weed Experiments

Monday September 12 3:00pm Mayo A434

Allyson Abrams Plan B Advisor: Michael Oakes

The SAS/SaTScan Macro Accessory for Cartography (SMAC) Package

Tuesday October 4 1:30pm Mayo A434

Meijuan Li Plan B Advisor: Cavan Reilly

Analysis of mRNA stability in Human T Lymphocytes

Monday October 24 1:30pm A434 Mayo

Aixaing Jiang Plan B Advisor: Wei Pan

Are BOEC Cells More Like Large Vessel or Microvascular Endothelial Cells?

Wednesday October 26 9:00am CCBR Ballroom

Yun Bai Plan B Advisor: Robert Leduc

Modeling the CD4+ Decline of Treatment-Naive Patients as a Function of Baseline CD4+ Cell Count and Other Possible Predictors.

Monday October 31st 9:30am Mayo A434

Maria Carola Alfaro Plan B Advisor: Patricia Grambsch

Testing Global Hypotheses of Equal Mean Differences, Between Two groups, of Correlated Endpoints Using O’Brien GLS, OLS and Tang Center Direction Tests


Tuesday November 1st 9:30am Mayo A434

Lan Pan Plan B Advisor: Will Thomas

Correlation Between Repeated Measurements of Glomerular Filtration Rate in Participants in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT)

Friday November 4th 2:30pm CCBR Ballroom

Xuan Liu PhD Advisor: Melanie Wall

Latent Variable Models for Multivariate Spatial Data

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