Time and place: Thursdays
********** Announcements ************
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This
biostatistics seminar continues next quarter, please sign up if you are
interested.
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See references
7-9 for week 9 talk by Dr.Deutsch.
********** Schedule ************
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Week 1:
organizational, Introduction to Biostatistics (Xu).
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Week 2: clinical
trials (sequential, phase
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Week 3:
observational studies (propensity score, instrumental variables) (Garner)
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Week 4:
high-dimensional data (chapter 3 in book below) (Chan)
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Week 5:
longitudinal data (Faig)
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Week 6 (Tues 2/9
11am): Dr. Natarajan (UCSD SOM)
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Week 7: Dr. Donohue
(UCSD SOM)
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Week 8: on
missing data (Dr.Ard, SOM)
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Week 9: Dr.
Deutsch (UCSD SOM)
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Week 10: Dr. Shen (Amylin Pharmaceutical)
References:
1.
Cnaan, A., Laird,
N.M. and Slasor, P. (1997) Using the general linear
mixed model to analyse unbalanced repeated measures
and longitudinal data. Statistics in Medicine, 16, 2349-2380.
2.
Li and Xu (eds, 2008). High-Dimensional
Data Analysis in Cancer Research. Springer.
3.
Sylvester et
al. (2002) Statistical methodology of phase
4.
Jennison and
Turnbull (1990). Statistical approaches to interim monitoring of medical trials:
a review and commentary. Statistical
Science, 5(3), 299-317.
5.
Angrist, Imbens and Rubin (1996). Identification of causal effects
using instrumental variables. Journal of
the American Statistical Association, 91,
444-455.
6.
D’Agostino RB, Jr. (1998)
Propensity score methods for bias reduction in the comparison of a treatment to
a non-randomized control group. Statistics in Medicine, 17, 2265-2281.
7.
Dohil et al (June 2006). Understanding intestinal cysteamine bitartrate absorption.
Journal
of Pediatrics, 764-769.
8.
Marcotte, Deutsch et al (2003). Prediction of incident neurocognitive impairment by plasma HIV RNA and CD4 levels
early after HIV seroconversion. Arch Neurol, 60, 1406-1412.
9.
Deutsch R, Mindt
MR, Xu R, Cherner M, Grant
I, and the HNRC Group. Quantifying relative superiority among many
binary-valued diagnostic tests in the presence of a gold standard. Journal of Data Science, 2009; 7(2): 161-177.