Statistics & Biostatistics Journal Club
Previous articles:
3/26/2008
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Terry Speed is visiting from UC Berkeley as part of the Burack Distinguished Lecture Series. He will lead us through a paper related to some of his work on designed microarray experiments for gene expression:
Linear Models and Empirical Bayes Methods for Assessing Differential Expression in Microarray Experiments
by Gordon Smyth in the journal Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology (2004),
2/20/2008
- Article:
Colin will lead us through a paper related to some of his work at IDX:
An Internet-Based Patient-Provider Communication System: Randomized Controlled Trial
by Lin, et al. in the journal J Med Internet Res.
11/28/2007
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Sheila will lead us through a paper related to colic in horses:
Is equine colic seasonal? Novel application of a model based
approach
by Archer, et al. in the BMC Veterinary Research journal.
10/24/2007
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Casey will lead us through a paper related to her work with the Vermont Mathematics Institute. The article is from the American Education Research Journal and is about effective means of providing professional development for mathematics and science teachers:
What Makes Professional Development Effective? Results From a National Sample of Teachers
by Garet et al. in the American Education Research Journal.
Additional related materials:
* A Flow chart of the probability sample used in the study that Casey created.
* The Teacher Activity Survey used in the study.
9/26/2007
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Luke will lead us through a paper related to the work he did this summer. The article is from the Journal Freshwater Biology and is about co-inertia analysis:
Co-inertia analysis: an alternative method for studying species-environment relationships
by Doledec and Chessel in the journal Freshwater Biology.
4/25/2007
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Yu will lead us through the following article about an investigation of the genetic basis of size determination in different dog breeds:
A Single IGF1 Allele Is a Major Determinant of Small Size in Dogs
by Sutter et al. in the April edition of Science.
The above file has the supplementary information that will be discussed. The full supplementary file is large and can be found
here.
3/28/2007
- Article:
Intravenous dexamethasone to prevent the recurrence of benign headache after discharge from the emergency department: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial
by Baden and Hunter in the Canadian Journal Emergency Medicine from last Fall.
2/7/2007
- Article:
Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey
by Burnham et al. in the Lancet from last Fall.
* Discussions and critiques of the study in Wikipedia (caveat emptor).
* Discussion of the survey in the April 2007 Amstat News.
12/6/2006
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Sujit will lead us through the following article that he chose about immunologic sensitization:
Does Living on a Farm during Childhood Protect against Asthma, Allergic Rhinitis, and Atopy in Adulthood?
10/25/2006
- Article:
A Case-Crossover Study of Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Onset of Congestive Heart Failure Symptom Exacerbation Leading to Hospitalization.
by Symons et al. in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Additional materials for those interested in further reading:
* An invited commentary by one of the top researchers in air pollution epidemiology.
9/20/2006
- Article:
Plasma antioxidants from chocolate
by Serafini et al. in the journal Science.
4/26/2006
- Article:
Geostatistics
by Noel Cressie, The American Statistician, 1989.
Noel Cressie will be giving talks on May 2nd here at UVM as a President's Distinguished Lecturer. I will post additional details below as they become available.
* Abstracts for talks on Tuesday May 2nd
"Spatial Prediction on a River Network" from 11-12 location TBA (more technical talk)
"Massive but Sparse Spatial Data" from 5-6 pm in the Campus Center Theatre (more general talk)
3/15/2006
- Article:
Thalidomide and Hematopoietic-Cell Transplantation for Multiple Myeloma
by Barlogie et al., NEJM, 2006.
Additional materials for those interested in further reading:
* Supplementary information
2/1/2006
- Article:
A meta-analysis of the risk for cardiovascular events associated with COX-2 inhibitors
by Mukherjee et al., JAMA, 2001.
Additional materials for those interested in further reading:
* There are a few editorials related to this study in
this issue of the journal.
* New England Journal of Medicine Editorial on Alleged Inaccuracies in a Vioxx-Naproxen Study (Dec. 8, 2005)
* Merck's Response to Dec. 8, 2005 NEJM Editorial
* Food and Drug Administration Findings on Vioxx and other Painkillers
11/30/2005
- Article:
Randomized controlled trial of yoga and exercise in multiple sclerosis
by Oken et al., Neurology, 2004.
10/12/2005
- Article:
An application of conditional logistic regression and multifactor
dimensionality reduction for detecting gene-gene Interactions on
risk of myocardial infarction: The importance of model validation
by Coffey et al., BMC Bioinformatics 2004.
9/21/2005
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Cardiovascular Events Associated with Rofecoxib in a Colorectal Adenoma Chemoprevention Trial
by Bresalier et al., NEJM 2005.
Additional materials for those interested in further reading:
There are two editorials related to this study in
this issue of the journal.