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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 candidatePlan B advisor: John Hughes

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

https://docs.google.com/a/umn.edu/document/d/1tNr3wmXnaFNUBAvfhKXomrvkW8_3qI_8HdLpbmuanYs/edit

Feb 13, 2 p.m.Mayo A110

Brad Lewis, master’s candidatePlan B advisor: Dipankar Bandyopadhyay

0-1 Augmented Beta Regression using the SAS NLMIXED Procedure


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

Presenter: Wenjie Liao, Masters candidate in BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPh.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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPlan 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


BiostatisticsPlan B Advisor: Richard MacLehose

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

Presenter: Donghwi Shin, Masters Candidate in BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPh.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 BiostatisticsPh.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

BiostatisticsPh.D. Advisors: Brad Carlin & Joe Koopmeiners

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

Presenter: Shuzhen Li, Ph.D. Candidate in BiostatisticsPh.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 BiostatisticsPh.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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPhD 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 BiostatisticsPhD 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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPh.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 BiostatisticsPh.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 1250BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPh.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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPh.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 BiostatisticsPlan B Advisor: Kyle Rudser

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


Presenter: Adrian Tan, Master’s candidate in BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPlan 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 BiostatisticsPlan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

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


Presenter: Emily Zabor, Master’s candidate in BiostatisticsPlan 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 biostatisticsPlan B Advisor: Melanie Wall

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


Presenter: Jonathan Chipman Master’s Candidate in BiostatisticsPlan 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 ShanleyMaster’s candidate in BiostatisticsPlan 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 JohnsonMaster’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 ZhangMaster’s candidate in BiostatisticsPlan 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 HuangMaster’s candidate in BiostatisticsPlan 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 D199Presenter: Jeremiah MenkMasters 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 ZhouMasters Candidate in BiostatisticsPlan 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 HanMasters Candidate in BiostatisticsPlan 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 KangPlan 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


FridayJanuary 239:45AMMayo A301

Yufen ZhangPhD Advisor: Jim Hodges

Extending Smoothed Analysis of Variance to New Problems

WednesdayMay 272:00pmMayo D199

Jessica MusselmanPlan B Advisor: Melanie Wall

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

FridayJune 59:00amMayo A110

Qian RenPlan B Advisor: Sudipto Banerjee

Variational Bayesian Method for Spatial Data Analysis

ThursdayJune 1810:00amMayo 1250

Peng WeiPhD Advisor: Wei Pan

Network-based Mixture Models for Genomic Data

FridayJune 261:00pmMayo A110

Lijuan ShenPlan B Advisor: Brad Carlin

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

WednesdayJuly 811:00amMayo A110

Matt RousseauPlan B Advisor: Xianghua Luo

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

ThursdayJuly 910:00amMayo A301

Matt Deyo-SvendsenPlan B Advisor: Tracy Bergemann

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

WednesdayAugust 12

Yanni ZhuPhD Advisor: Wei

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


1:00pmMayo D199 Pan

WednesdayAugust 122:00pmMayo A110

Keegan HasselmannPlan B Advisor: David Nelson

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

FridayAugust 1411:00amMayo A301

Stacia KrausPlan B Advisor: Sue Duval

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


David SchladtPlan B Advisor: Saonli Basu

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

ThursdayAugust 201:00pmMayo D199

Wei ZhongPlan B Advisor: Wei Pan

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


Yafeng ZhangPlan 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

MondayNovember 92:00pmMayo A434

Xiaochun ZhuPlan B Advisor: John Connett

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


WednesdayJanuary 1610:00 AMMayo A110

Luping ZhaoPhD 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 282:00 PMMayo A434

Plan B Advisor: William Thomas

Creatinine and Cystatin C in Kidney Transplant Patients

FridayApril 49:00amMayo A110

Joshua RapkinPlan 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

FridayApril 111:00pmMayo A301

Xiaobo LiuPlan B Advisor: William Thomas

Illness-Death Model for Cystic Fibrosis Related Diabetes

WednesdayApril 163:45 PMMayo A434

Qun ShiPlan B Advisor: Jim Hodges

Mechanism of the Bacteriophage ø29 DNA-Packing Motor

FridayMay 22:30pmCCBR Ballroom

Rachel IsakssonPlan B Advisor: James Neaton

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

MondayMay 191:00 pmMayo A110

Laura HatfieldPlan B Advisor: Brad Carlin

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

TuesdayJune 242:30pmMayo A434

Zhenyu PanPlan B Advisor: Tim Hanson

Bayesian Model Comparison on CattleAbortion Data

FridayJuly 119:30amMayo A301

Haowen CaiPlan B Advisor: Sudipto Banerjee

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

ThursdayJuly 179:30amMayo A301

Jonathan JohnsonPlan B Advisor: Chap Le

Impact of Weight Loss on Circulating Renin-Angiotensin Hormones

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


July 251:00pmMayo A301

Plan B Advisor: Xianghua Luo Activities of Angiogenesis Inhibitors

MondayJuly 281:00pmMayo A301

Ann M. BrearleyPlan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

Reliability of Breast Cancer MRS Biomarker Concentration Measurements

ThursdayAugust 213:00pmMayo A434

Jiaqi YangPlan B Advisor: Baolin Wu

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

TuesdayAugust 2610:00amMayo A110

Katie SchomakerPlan B Advisor: Hongfei Guo

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

WednesdayAugust 2710:00amMayo D199

Benhuai XiePh.D. Advisor: Wei Pan

Variable Selection in Penalized Model-Based Clustering

WednesdayAugust 272:30pmMayo D199

Xiting CaoPh.D. Advisor: Baolin Wu

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

WednesdaySeptember 32:30pmMayo A434

Wei HePlan B Advisor: Tim Hanson

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

WednesdaySeptember 172:00pmCCBR Ballroom

Shengde LiangPh.D. Advisor: Brad Carlin

Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling of Geostatistical and Spatial Point Process Data

FridaySeptember 193:00pm

Melissa WardenPlan 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

ThursdayOctober 211:15amMayo A301

Qingqing YangPlan B Advisor: Melanie Wall

Multiple Latent Class Analysis

FridayOctober 311:15amMayo A434

Christopher AndersonPlan B Advisor: Patricia Grambsch

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


Jianmin LiuPlan B Advisor: Judy Punyko

Comparison of Imputation Methods for Survey Data

MondayOctober 279:30amMayo A434

Nick WoldPlan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

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


Hua HePlan 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 TaiPh.D. Advisor: Wei Pan

Incorporate Gene Network Structure into Bayesian Variable Selection


Xiang LiPlan B Advisor: Na Li

Single-SNP Association Analysis in Genome-wide Association Studies

MondayDecember 810:00amMayo A434

Meijuan LiPh.D. Advisor: Cavan Reilly

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

MondayDecember

Qinlei HuangPlan B Advisor:

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


222:00pmMayo A434

Melanie Wall Non-Response Weighting Adjustments


FridayFebruary 910:00 AMMayo D325

Hong GePlan B Advisor: Melanie Wall

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

FridayFebruary 2311:30 AMMayo A110

Na YuanPlan 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

MondayMarch 52:30 PMMayo A434

Yi PengPlan 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

WednesdayMarch 710:00 AMCCBR Ballroom

Brian HobbsPlan B Advisor: Brad Carlin

Practical Bayesian Design and Analysis for Drug and Device Clinical Trials

FridayMarch 231:00 PMMayo A110

Dan WangPlan B Advisor: Chap Le

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

TuesdayApril 33:30 PMCCBR Ballroom

Tarek HaddadPlan B Advisor: Jim Hodges

Smoothing Interactions in Analysis of Variance Using the Simplex Priors

MondayApril 92:00 PMMayo A434

Hua TianPlan B Advisor: Melanie Wall

Applied Statistical Analysis on Rat Tumor Data


MondayApril 231:00 PMCCBR Ballroom

Nicholas SalkowskiPlan B Advisor: Tim Hanson

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

WednesdayMay 302:30 PMMayo 1250

Ran LiPlan B Advisor: Melanie Wall

Multiple Indicator Hidden Markov Modelwith an Application to Medical Utilization Data

MondayJune 259:30 AMMayo D199

Min XiPlan B Advisor: Wei Pan

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

FridayJune 2910:00 AMMayo D325

Pei LiPlan B Advisor: Sudipto Banerjee

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

TuesdayJuly 3110:00 AMMayo A110

Haiying LinPlan B Advisor: Chap Le

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

MondayAugust 132:00PMMayo D325

Daniel DvorkinPlan B Advisor: Wei Pan

Predicting Gene Coexpression by Integrating the Gene Ontology with Microarray Data

MondaySeptember 101:00PMMayo A434

Jia XuPlan 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

TuesdaySeptember 243:00PMMayo D325

Xiaoxiao KongPlan B Advisor: Na Li

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

MondayOctober 110:00am

Zhi HuangPlan B Advisor: Tracy Bergemann

Missing Data Imputation inCase-parent Triad Studies


Mayo A110

TuesdayOctober 23:15PMMayo A434

Fang LiuPlan B Advisor: Baolin Wu

Multi-Class Cancer Outlier Differential Gene Expression Detection

MondayOctober 152:30PMMayo A434

Benhuai XiePlan B Advisor: Wei Pan

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

MondayNovember 1912:00PMMayo A434

Milan SethPlan B Advisor: Saonli Basu

A Logistic Regression model for Quantitative Trait Locus linkage Analysis

TuesdayNovember 273:00PMMayo A434

Yanni ZhuPlan B Advisor: Wei Pan

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

FridayNovember 302:30pmMayo A434

Qi WangPlan B Advisors: John Connett and Robert Leduc

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

TuesdayDecember 1810:00amMayo A434

Yue CuiPh.D. Advisor: Jim Hodges

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

FridayDecember 2110:00amMayo A301

Xinyu ZhouPlan B Advisor: Melanie Wall

Employee Behavior Study –A Two-level Latent Class Approach



TuesdayJanuary 242:30 PMMayo A434

Wenjun MaPlan B Advisor: Jim Neaton and Patricia Grambsch

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

WednesdayFebruary 221:30pmMayo A301

Hongyan QiaoPlan B Advisor: John Connett

Modeling of Smoking Cessation Behavior

MondayApril 241:30pmMayo A434

Rui ZhangPlan B Advisor: Jim Neaton

Implementation of a minimization algorithm and comparison with other allocation methods

WednesdayApril 261:00pmMayo A301

Gregg LindPlan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

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

WednesdayJune 284:00pmMayo A434

Zang XiongPlan 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

ThursdayJuly 204:00pmCCBR Ballroom

Vaughn BerryPlan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

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

MondayJuly 2410:00amMayo D327

Peng WeiPlan B Advisor: Wei Pan

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

TuesdayJuly 259:30amCCBR Ballroom

Qing CaoPlan B Advisor: Jim Hodges

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

MondayJuly 313:00pm

Adele GoldenPlan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

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


Mayo A301

TuesdayAugust 19:30amMayo A110

Haijun MaPhDAdvisor: Brad Carlin

Bayesian Hierarchical Boundary Analysis for Areal Public Health Data

WednesdayAugust 1611:00amCCBR Ballroom

Shweta SharmaPlan B Advisor: John Connett

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

MondayAugust 2110:00amMayo D199

Yang XiePhD Advisors: Wei Pan and Arkady Khodursky

Integrated Analysis of Genomic Data to Study Gene Regulation

TuesdayAugust 2210:00amMayo D199

Guanghua XiaoPhD Advisor: Wei Pan

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

FridayAugust 2512:00pmMayo A301

Yan ZhengPhD Advisor: Cavan Reilly and Wei Pan

Topics in the Low-level Analysis of Microarrays

MondayAugust 281:00pmCCBR Ballroom

Freda CoonerPhD Advisor: Sudipto Banerjee and Bradley P. Carlin

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

WednesdayAugust 309:30amMayo A301

Jay PottalaPlan B Advisor: John Connett

Diabetes Care Improvement Analysis

FridaySeptember 1511:30amMayo A301

Yi HePhD Advisor: Jim Hodges

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

Monday Jia Guo Biostatistical Models with Latent Variables


October 29:30amCCBR Ballroom

PhD Advisor: Melanie Wall

TuesdayNovember 212:30pmMayo A110

Colleen CurranPlan B Advisor: Patricia Grambsch

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


FridayMay 63:00 PMMayo D260

Scott WehrenbergPlan B Advisor: Jim Hodges

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

TuesdayMay 311:30 PMMayo A387/389

Yinghui WangPlan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

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

WednesdayJune 810:00amCCBR Ballroom

Xiaoping JinPhD Advisor: Brad Carlin

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

WednesdayJune 1510:00amJackson 2-137

Jarad NiemiPlan B Advisor: Brad Carlin

Identifying and Evaluating Contrarian Strategies for NCAA Tournament Pools

MondayJune 279:00amMayo A387/389

Bingbing LiPhD Advisor: Patricia Grambsch

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


WednesdayJune 2910:00amCCBR Ballroom

Feng TaiPlan B Advisor: Wei Pan

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

ThursdayJune 302:00pmMayo A387/389

Qian AnPlan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

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

TuesdayJuly 199:30amMayo A387/389

Fangyu KanPlan B Advisor: James Neaton

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

MondayJuly 2510:00amMayo A387/389

Haolan LuPhD Advisor: Brad Carlin and Jim Hodges

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

FridayJuly 2910:00amMayo A387/389

Brian ReichPhD Advisor: Jim Hodges

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

TuesdayAugust 210:00amMayo A387/389

Wanling XiePlan B Advisor: Lynn Eberly

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

ThursdayAugust 119:30amMayo A387/389

Yi-Chen WuPlan B Advisor: Na Li

Exploring Positional Candidate Genes: Linkage Conditional on SNP Genotypes

FridayAugust 122:00pmMayo

Luping ZhaoPlan B Advisor: John Connett

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


A387/389

FridayAugust 199:00amCCBR Ballroom

Qi LiPlan B Advisor: James Neaton

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

ThursdaySeptember 19:30amMayo A387/389

Helen Haiyun FanPlan B Advisor: Sudipto Banerjee

A Simulation-Based Framework for Bayesian Sample Size Calculations

TuesdaySeptember 64:00pmCCBR Ballroom

Shengde LiangPlan B Advisor: Sudipto Banerjee

Multi-Resolution Spatial Modelling with Application to Replicated Weed Experiments

MondaySeptember 123:00pmMayo A434

Allyson AbramsPlan B Advisor: Michael Oakes

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

TuesdayOctober 41:30pmMayo A434

Meijuan LiPlan B Advisor: Cavan Reilly

Analysis of mRNA stability in Human T Lymphocytes

MondayOctober 241:30pmA434 Mayo

Aixaing JiangPlan B Advisor: Wei Pan

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

WednesdayOctober 269:00amCCBR Ballroom

Yun BaiPlan B Advisor: Robert Leduc

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

MondayOctober 31st9:30amMayo A434

Maria Carola AlfaroPlan 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


TuesdayNovember 1st9:30amMayo A434

Lan PanPlan B Advisor: Will Thomas

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

FridayNovember 4th2:30pmCCBR Ballroom

Xuan LiuPhD Advisor: Melanie Wall

Latent Variable Models for Multivariate Spatial Data


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