Brief description:

The objective of this project is to assist and facilitate the continuing education of Masters level biostatisticians through monthly seminars on biostatistical and technical skills. It will require the participation of each biostatistician to be involved in learning and/or teaching these skills. The seminar on each specific biostatistical method/skill would be considered successful when the biostatistician would have enough background and technical tools to start using it. General topics or theoretical topics can be referred or presented as background but the session will be a practical summary that outlines every thing the biostatistician needs to go back to his/her office and implement the tool. Continuing education series will also include writing seminars covering grants and manuscript related writings.

• Continuing Education Winter,Spring and Fall 2009
  • September 18th Dr.Mario Davidson. Challenges of Consulting: Experiences of Real Biostatisticians.
  • August 20th Dr.Irene Feurer. A comparison of exploratory and confirmatory approaches to principal components analysis.
  • June 18th Dr.Jeffrey Blume. A discussion on ROC curves.
  • May 15th Dr.Frank Harrell. A discussion on model validation, penalty and shrinkage analysis.
  • Apr 30th Nate Mercaldo. Beamer me Up Scotty: An introduction to making handouts, posters and presentations in Latex.
  • Mar 19th Dr.William Dupont. Dr. Bill Dupont will discuss and demonstrate power and sample size calculations using the new version of his PS software.
  • Feb 19th Dr.Frank Harrell. A discussion of state of the art statistical methods and why we should use them for specific research questions.
  • Jan 15th Dana Blakemore. R Graphics-An introduction to GGplot.
• Continuing Education Winter,Spring and Fall 2008
  • Dec 18th Daniel Byrne 30 most commonly used statistical methods.
  • Nov 20th Lisa Kaltenbach. Poisson Regression. Let me count the use!
  • Oct 16th Dan Ayers. Introduction to the Likelihood Measure of Statistical Evidence.
  • Sep 18th Dr. Paul Harris. A software toolset and workflow methodology (REDCap - Research Electronic Data Capture) to manage research data for research studies.
  • August 14th Dr. Patrick Arbogast. To Propensity Score or Not Propensity Score, That is the Question.
  • July 15 Dr.Leena Choi. How to Use Bayesian Methods in Clinical Research.
  • June 15 Daniel Byrne. How to write a grant.
  • May 15 Dr.Ayumi Shintani. The Proportional Odds Model.
  • May 1st Dr.Bryan Shepherd. Linear Mixed Effects Analysis in R, Part 2.
  • Apr 17 Dr.Bryan Shepherd. Linear Mixed Effects Analysis in R.
  • Mar 20 Dr.Jonathan Schildcrout. Analysis of Longitudinal Data, Part 2.
  • Mar 13 Dr.Jonathan Schildcrout. Analysis of Longitudinal Data.
  • Feb 21 Theresa Scott. R Graphics

• Continuing Education Winter,Spring and Fall 2007.
  • Nov 15 Gene Gallagher Compliance Officer Institutional Review Board
  • Oct 18 Jennifer Thompson.Bootstrap Confidence Interval for Difference of Two Means (handout and R code).Angel An. Data Simulation in R.
  • Sept 20 Dr.Frank Harrell.Update Data Reduction Methods (Post-poned).
  • Aug 16 Joint Statistical Meeting 2007 and User R conference.Share notes statistical courses and lectures attended and presented JointStatisticalmeeting2007.pdf.
  • July 21 Dr.Rafe Donahue.The Nature of Data Analysis
  • June 21 Lisa Kaltenbach.Insights from Wayne Ray's Epi II class
  • May 17 Dr. Chun Li.Part 2-Statistical analysis of genetic data
  • Apr 19 Dr. Yu Shyr.How to consult efficiently with investigators --- a case study of clinic trials
  • Mar 15 ENAR participants will present on statistical courses and lectures attended.
  • Feb 19 Dan Ayers Sample size calculation for survival analysis
  • Jan 18 Svetlana Eden. Introduction to string matching and modification in R using regular expression.

• Continuing Education Series Fall 2006.
  • Dec 21 No meeting.
  • Nov 16 Dr. Chun Li. Part1-Statistical analysis of genetic data.
  • Oct 19 Heidi Chen. Tips for survival analysis: competing risk, time dependent covariates. Discussion by Dan Ayers
  • September 21 Dr. Frank Harrell presented on imputation methods.

• Continuing Education Series of writing seminars Summer 2006.

• • August 17 Lynne Hutchinson lead a workshop in grant writing.
  • July 13 Daniel Byrne presented the first serie of grant writing seminar.

• Upcoming Continuing Education (5th Thursday of the month)
  • June 29th Theresa Scott presented on Statistical Graphics in R.

• Continuing Education (3rd Thursday of the month-May 18th)
  • Dr. Ayumi Shintani discussed Data Reduction- A case study.

• Continuing Education (3rd thursday of the month-April 13th)
  • Dr. Patrick Arbogast presented on analyses using propensity score.

• Continuing Education (3rd thursday of the month-March 16th)
  • Dr. William Dupont discussed his PS software program.

• Continuing Education (3rd thursday of the month-March 9th)
  • Dr. Chuan Zhou presented on an interesting Bayesian analysis topic: Meta Analysis and Logistic Regression.

• Continuing Education (3rd thursday of the month-February 16th.
  • Yi He covered Bayesian Analysis and introduced BayesianDataAnalysisWithOpenBUGSAndBRugs