Statistics & Biostatistics Journal Club

Previous articles:

• 12/2/2011
      Presenter: Manar Al-Amoudi & Desna Jenkins
      Article: How many were there when it mattered? - Estimating the sizes of crowds from Significance magazine.
      Time: 12:40 PM
      Location: Math/Stat Conference Room, 16 Colchester Ave.
  
• 10/28/2011
      Presenter: Xirun Chen
      Article: Late-Game Reversals in Professional Basketball, Football, and Hockey from The American Statistician
      Time: 12:40 PM
      Location: Math/Stat Conference Room, 16 Colchester Ave.
  
• 4/27/2011
      Presenters: Changhua, Qin, and Jue
      Article: Statistical Inference: The Big Picture to appear in the journal Statistical Science
      Time: 11:45 PM
      Location: Math/Stat Conference Room, 16 Colchester Ave.
  
• 11/18/2010
      Presenter: Changhua He
      Article: Why most published research findings are false from the Journal of Applied Probability
      Time: 12:00 PM
      Location: Math/Stat Conference Room, 16 Colchester Ave.
  
• 4/28/2010
      Presenter: Jue Wang
      Article: An Evaluation of Chinese Annual Earthquake Predictions, 1990-1998 from the Journal of Applied Probability
      Time: 12:00 PM
      Location: Math/Stat Conference Room, 16 Colchester Ave.
  
• 3/31/2010
      Research Presentation
      Presenter: Jeff Buzas
      Title: Estimation in logistic regression models for clustered/longitudinal data with covariate measurement error.
      Time: 1:00 PM
      Location: Math/Stat Conference Room, 16 Colchester Ave.
      Abstract: This talk considers estimation and inference in population averaged logistic regression models with covariate measurement error. It is shown that, surprisingly, standardized residuals in logistic regression models with covariate measurement error are unbiased, have constant variance, and preserve the correlation structure of the model with no measurement error. These properties are used to define unbiased estimating equations for population averaged logistic regression models when observations are clustered or measured repeatedly over time and covariates are measured with error.
• 4/7/2010
      Presenter: Kiran MacCormick
      Article: A Simple and Flexible Rating Method for Predicting Success in the NCAA Basketball Tournament from the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports.
      Time: 12:00 PM
      Location: Math/Stat Conference Room, 16 Colchester Ave.
  
• 2/17/2010
      Article: Survival Analysis: A Primer from The American Statistician.
      Time: 12:00 PM
      Location: Math/Stat Conference Room, 16 Colchester Ave.
• 11/20/2009
      Presenter (and co-author): Qin Zhou
      Article: China’s divorce and remarriage rates: Trends and regional disparities - to appear in the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage.
      Time: 12:40 PM
      Location: Math/Stat Conference Room, 16 Colchester Ave.
• 10/13/2009
      Information: This will be an informal meeting of the journal club where we can talk with Professor Prof. Mei-Ling T. Lee of the University of Maryland over lunch which will be provided. She will be visiting as part of the President's Burack Distinguished Lecture Series.
      Article: A case-control study relating railroad worker mortality to diesel exhaust exposure using a threshold regression model from a recent edition of the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference.
      Time: 11:30 PM
      Location: Votey 107
• 9/25/2009
      Presenter: Vicki McLaughlin
      Article: How Much Do Patients’ Preferences Contribute To Resource Use? from a recent edition of the journal Health Affairs.
      Time: 12:40 PM
      Location: Math/Stat Conference Room, 16 Colchester Ave.