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The MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminar Series (BSU). Seminars at the BSU are aimed at a general scientific audience and open to all. Most seminars are now in a hybrid format, taking place at the Seminar Rooms, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR . Please notice that start and finish hours may vary. If you would like to attend virtually, please follow the Zoom registration link included in the information for each seminar. If you have a question about this list, please contact: Alison Quenault; ajf64; srs1008; Pantelis. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 1 upcoming talk and 210 talks in the archive. BSU Seminar: "IV-learner: learning conditional average treatment effects using instrumental variables"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0od-CorDouHdEyadWd2HkaL_HUObpPwuoJ Karla Diaz Ordaz, University College London . MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 19 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Multi-state modelling to estimate infectious disease burden"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpf-6gpjkvHNaHjyzJDmLJi7vIrRb-STIQ Peter Kirwan, MRC Biostatistics Unit. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 05 November 2024, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkf-ysqDgqG9W5MbRoGxq5re7R9XadbBBd Ida Scheel, University of Oslo. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 22 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Bayesian latent multi-state modelling for longitudinal health trajectories"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqcuutqTkoG9R7enI9iOHBr61dOjW5BTKl Yu Luo, Kings College London. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 15 October 2024, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Bayesian nonparametric spectral analysis of multivariate time series"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrdOmpqzMuHNHNuAnIvofAmb7HOCQIQwzW Renate Meyer, University of Aukland. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 27 August 2024, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "A Bayesian framework for incorporating exposure uncertainty into health analyses with application to air pollution and stillbirth"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/22b7f255-8f6c-4dce-9c83-36281a3261bf@513def5b-df17-4107-b552-3dba009e5990 Joshua Warren, Yale School of Public Health. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 18 June 2024, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "The Topological Properties of the Protein Universe"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/93edb3b5-eb5d-4d19-b30b-1526233e3c17@513def5b-df17-4107-b552-3dba009e5990 Christian Madsen, University of Melbourne. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Thursday 23 May 2024, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Making predictions under intervention to avoid causal blind spots in treatment decisions"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/7045e477-b689-46bc-9ec3-fe1ed827a158@513def5b-df17-4107-b552-3dba009e5990 Prof Niels Peek, THIS Institute, University of Cambridge. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 21 May 2024, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: “Bayesian behavioural-change epidemic models: is your population alarmed?”This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vceqsqDwtHNLalYuBk7GmojclSXN5wIcE Rob Deardon, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Calgary. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Thursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Using Joint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data to Investigate the Causal Effect of Salvage Therapy after Prostatectomy"This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclceGorT0qE9YE3YCcRSFhCPPH_6ZNFPgh Dimitris Rizopoulos, Professor of Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam. Tuesday 12 March 2024, 12:00-13:00 BSU Seminar: "Uncertainty Quantification in the Digital Medicine Era"This will be a free hybrid event. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsduitrTotGNZxFmtFPPAx6Jh2LZfCYbV3 Marcos Matabuena, Harvard University . MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Statistical modelling for state-of-the-art gene editing experiments"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqdOmqqzsuE9HyOT32ptW3DZiTCmkZT-3X#/registration Magdalena Strauss, European Bioinformatics Institute . MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 20 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models"This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYocuCvpjotHNQoiEBwivER-WSnaKd-IlFw Ida Scheel, University of Oslo. Tuesday 13 February 2024, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Semiparametric posterior corrections"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqd-quqjkiHtRsIwSM3Sec0QFfHrtRftXa Andrew Yiu, University of Oxford. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 30 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Causal machine learning for biomarker subgroup discovery in randomised trials".This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rf-qppzwsEtEisA_2ZCkA3KoJ3d53uW1P Paul Newcombe, GlaxoSmithKline. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 23 January 2024, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Hyper-Localization and Predictive Modeling of Rapid Lung Function Decline in Cystic Fibrosis"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qdOyurDkjHdO0RzdaqWctUrYMks1YPvY1 Rhonda Szczesniak and Emrah Gecili, both from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 12 December 2023, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Unravelling the mechanisms and decision-making logic of biological systems"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtdOisrTosGNIMVJIXmGuq2X_so_tpo7s6 Giorgos Minas, St Andrew's University. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 05 December 2023, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "A new frequentist implementation of the Daniels and Hughes bivariate meta-analysis model for surrogate outcomes"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqcuuurzIuGtEUj6y8h6vKpM1Krt5hj60L Dan Jackson, AstraZeneca. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Harnessing Extra Randomness: Replicability, Flexibility and Causality"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAofuihqzgvHNyG24AgAAytgHlr1nmpetpx Richard Guo, Stas Lab, University of Cambridge. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Dynamic survival analysis: modelling the hazard function via ordinary differential equations"This will be a free hybrid event. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlce-spjIqHdQ4PYgBuSHSUSDRmLBAJQ5n Dr F. Javier Rubio, University College London. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: 'Some advances and applications of robust gradient-based Markov chain Monte Carlo'This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsdOypqTwrH9LeiEEIL8dXxO_IpOC8lVMS Sam Livingstone, University College London. MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.. Tuesday 03 October 2023, 15:00-16:00 BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian analysis of diffusion-driven multi-type epidemic models with application to COVID-19'This will be an online seminar. To register to attend, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ocO6qrTsiH9V3mlmvd_EOYT1sTBOKOmUZ Dr Lampros Bouranis, Athens University of Economics and Business. Tuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: 'Modelling the response to vaccine in non-human primates to define SARS-CoV-2 mechanistic correlates of protection'This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuf-usqDovGdf1TbAtYgsGCRJmoz0Hmbfi Mélanie Prague, Inria, University of Bordeaux. Tuesday 23 May 2023, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: 'Covariate Adjustment in Randomized Experiments with Incomplete Covariate and Outcome Data'Prof Fan Li, Duke University . Tuesday 18 April 2023, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: 'Methods for Bayesian optimal design of experiments, with application in biological science’This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrd-uoqjMiGN3f68WQc7zJQ7LmM4sZa2rx Prof Dave Woods, University of Southampton. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 07 March 2023, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian Covariance Structure Modelling of Clinical Trial Data'This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpf-uvrDMiGtLpMKemoVfOPmiD91Ju0-Xq Stef Baas, University of Twente. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: 'From Data to Decisions: Causal Inference Motivated by Policy Questions'This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwodOytqjItGNL_he9tZXSxmdT7KTWWQRgF Prof Mats Stensrud, EPFL. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: 'Phases of research for statistical methods’This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtd--hrzItHtTIezm0p763Lsc95VI0Q254 Dr Tim Morris, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 31 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: 'Detecting National, Regional and Global Changes in Terror Activity'This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtf-iqrjoiGd3egbADJAIx6u477THr4Et9 Dr Sam Tickle, University of Bristol. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 24 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Statistical approaches for differential analyses on transcriptomics data"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkfuivpj0jEta0t6wA4iKlz8YOaojvNwdt Dr Simone Tiberi, Universita di Bologna. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 10 January 2023, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: 'Double soft-thresholded model for multi-group scalar on vector-valued image regression'This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucOmvrj4pHd3vnOm5ReIZ1wmXR9x-xC1z Prof Arkaprava Roy, University of Florida. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Friday 16 December 2022, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: “Using Electronic Health Records for Scientific Research: Promises and Perils”This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctduyqrjgsEtYxJkz-fTWdzMmjL7qFrnAC Professor Bhramar Mukherjee, John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "The HealthGap study: Using linked administrative data to understand cardiovascular health of Indigenous people living in Victoria, Australia"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpc-qtqD4iHtMcJUj5fiD4uVwRqMWP4XkI Dr Karen Lamb, University of Melbourne. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 15 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Derivative-Based Neural Modelling of Cumulative Distribution Functions for Survival Analysis"This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdu6gpjgrHd1yp38Mi3xQxgCg_5BOQThO Prof Christopher Yau, University of Oxford . Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Making all pairwise comparisons in multi-arm clinical trials without control treatment"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlc-Grrj0vHNCSqPPY92EKkTJG5Xjm5yhY Dr Thomas Burnett, University of Bath. Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR. Tuesday 01 November 2022, 14:00-15:00 Virtual BSU Seminar: "Variable Selection and Prioritization in Bayesian Machine Learning Methods"This will be a free virtual seminar. To register, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIlc--rrT8qGNMFApbQ8304Icj6vW4CDcFo Lorin Crawford, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Brown University . Tuesday 18 October 2022, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Genome-wide genetic models for association, heritability analyses and prediction"This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpcuipqTMuGtP_pIJrVQDLQGbP3ndqAh-N David Balding, Honorary Professor of Statistical Genetics at UCL Genetics Institute and University of Melbourne. Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0SP. Monday 22 August 2022, 15:30-16:30 BSU Seminar: "Challenges in risk prediction using routinely collected health data"This will be a free online seminar. To register, click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkdOupqDspHtK1D30gXlBykdbIvLV8DMdH Dr Elizabeth Williamson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine . Thursday 14 July 2022, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Design and Inference for Enrichment Trials with a Continuous Biomarker"This will be a hybrid seminar. If you would like to attend virtually, please register for free here - https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErduCprzwiEtQhPshDBMXcqhwlvdZtp_IP Prof William Rosenberger, George Mason University. Seminar Room 12, School of Clinical Medicine, Hills Rd, Cambridge CB2 0SP. Tuesday 05 July 2022, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: “Optimising the discovery and development of gene silencing drugs with genetics and genomics”This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEudeGqrDgpH9w6XLGADT0ZoJB-ARc5EdD0 Dan Swerdlow, Silence Therapeutics . Tuesday 14 June 2022, 14:00-15:00 BSU Virtual Seminar: “Group Testing in Structured and Dynamic Networks”This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85960970204?pwd=dnVyWUFTSkM1bjJkWGMvc0ViLzA2Zz09 Batuhan Arasli, University of Maryland. Thursday 19 May 2022, 15:00-16:00 BSU Seminar: “Optimal design of First in Human trials via dynamic programming”This will be a hybrid seminar. If you would like to participate virtually, please register using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwvf-qgrTwrHNMDOZ_UZNN7h-wCbi90t9bA Dr Lizzi Pitt, University of Bath. Seminar Room 2, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital. Tuesday 10 May 2022, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Sparse Hamiltonian Flows (or: Bayesian Coresets Without all the Fuss)"This will be a virtual seminar. FREE registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rc-2vpz4qHNxdJ4Cm4hyLEn4BVOG5YcIt Prof Trevor Campbell, The University of British Columbia . Tuesday 26 April 2022, 14:00-15:00 Virtual BSU Seminar: "A flexible sensitivity analysis for sample selection bias"This will be a virtual seminar. To register for free, please click here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsu-seminar-dr-matt-tudball-tickets-251838374357 Matt Tudball, University of Bristol. Thursday 10 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 Virtual BSU Seminar: "Using Variational Bayes for fast inference in large longitudinal datasets”This will be a free virtual seminar. If you would like to attend, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsu-virtual-seminar-dr-david-hughes-tickets-242962345917 Dr David Hughes, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool. Tuesday 01 February 2022, 14:00-15:00 BSU virtual seminar: "Assessing batch effects and their implications in single cell RNA sequencing experiments"This will be a virtual seminar. If you would like to attend, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for the joining information. Prof Sarah Langley, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU, Singapore. Tuesday 23 November 2021, 12:00-13:00 Virtual BSU seminar: "NanoSplicer: Accurate identification of splice junctions using Oxford Nanopore sequencing"This will be a online seminar. You can register for free at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bsu-seminar-dr-heejung-shim-tickets-198278104147 Dr Heejung Shim, Melbourne Integrative Genomics (MIG), University of Melbourne. Tuesday 02 November 2021, 10:00-11:00 Virtual BSU Seminar: “Methodological Advances in Risk Prediction"This will be a virtual seminar. If you would like to attend, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for the joining information. Dr Glen Martin, University of Manchester. Friday 22 October 2021, 14:00-15:00 BSU Virtual Seminar: “Estimating treatment effects from adaptive clinical trials”If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Prof Ian Marschner, University of Sydney. Tuesday 14 September 2021, 09:30-10:30 Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Confidence intervals for policy evaluation in adaptive experiments’If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Dr Vitor Hadad, Stanford University. Thursday 27 May 2021, 14:00-15:00 Virtual Seminar: 'Probabilistic models of transcriptomic dysregulation in human genetic disease'If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Prof David Knowles, Columbia University. Thursday 20 May 2021, 14:00-15:00 Virtual Seminar: 'Adapting Real-World Experimentation To Balance Enhancement of User Experiences with Statistically Robust Scientific Discovery'If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Professor Joseph Jay Williams, University of Toronto . Thursday 13 May 2021, 14:00-15:00 Virtual Seminar: 'Statistical Inference with M-Estimators on Bandit Data’If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Kelly Zhang, Harvard University. Thursday 29 April 2021, 14:00-15:00 Virtual Seminar: 'Bayesian pyramids: Identifying interpretable deep structure underlying high-dimensional data’If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Professor David Dunson, Professor of Statistical Science, Duke University, USA. Wednesday 31 March 2021, 14:00-15:00 BSU Virtual Seminar: 'A Simulation-Free Approach To Assessing the Performance of the Continual Reassessment Method'If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Professor Thomas Braun, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, USA. Tuesday 23 February 2021, 14:00-15:00 Virtual Seminar: ‘The DURATIONS design: a practical trial design to optimise treatment duration’If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Dr Matteo Quartagno, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, UCL. Tuesday 15 December 2020, 14:00-15:00 Virtual Seminar: 'PROGRESS in sample size calculations for clinical prediction model research'If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Professor Richard Riley, Centre for Prognosis Research, School of Medicine, Keele University. Tuesday 08 December 2020, 14:00-15:00 Virtual Seminar: ‘Score driven modeling of spatio-temporal data’If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Alessandra Luati, University of Bologna . Thursday 19 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 Virtual Seminar: 'Using auxiliary variables in mediation analysis to address unmeasured confounding'If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Professor Richard Emsley, NIHR Research Professor, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. Tuesday 10 November 2020, 14:00-15:00 Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Stochastic treatment interventions in causal survival analysis'If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Dr Lan Wen, Harvard University . Tuesday 13 October 2020, 14:00-15:00 Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Assumption-lean inference for generalised linear model parameters'If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email alison.quenault@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Prof Stijn Vansteelandt, Ghent University . Thursday 24 September 2020, 14:00-15:00 Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Parameterizing Causal Marginal Models'If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Prof Robin Evans, University of Oxford. Tuesday 16 June 2020, 14:00-15:00 Virtual Seminar: “Delayed-acceptance Sequential Monte Carlo”If you would like to join this virtual seminar, please email: research_admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk for more information. Joshua Bon, Queensland University of Technology. Thursday 21 May 2020, 10:00-11:00 Virtual Seminar: “Including expert knowledge in genomic selection through intuitive tree-based joint priors”Ingeborg Hem, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Thursday 16 April 2020, 14:00-15:00 “Squeezing the most out of ridge”Professor Mark van de Wiel, Amsterdam University Medical Center. Tuesday 03 March 2020, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: “Building Representative Matched Samples with Multi-valued Treatments in Large Observational Studies”Professor Jose Zubizarreta, Harvard University. Thursday 11 April 2019, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Information theory in dose-finding trials"Prof. Thomas Jaki, Lancaster University. Monday 08 April 2019, 15:00-16:00 BSU Seminar: “Optimal Feature Selection using model-based Deep Reinforcement Learning”Dr Konstantina Pallas, Microsoft. Tuesday 26 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: “Sample size considerations for the design clinical trials – quantifying the target difference and the target no-difference”Prof Steven Julious, University of Sheffield. Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: "Probabilistic approaches for optimal sequential feature acquisition"Dr Christopher Yau, University of Birmingham and The Alan Turing Institute. Monday 28 January 2019, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: “How to obtain valid tests and confidence intervals for treatment effects after confounder selection”Dr Oliver Dukes, Ghent University . Tuesday 22 January 2019, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: “Estimation in two-stage adaptive threshold enrichment clinical trials”Dr Peter Kimani, University of Warwick. Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:30-14:30 BSU Seminar: “Unsupervised substructure discovery in mass spectrometry metabolomics data”Dr Simon Rogers, University of Glasgow. Thursday 08 November 2018, 14:00-15:00 BSU Seminar: “Statistical learning for drug screening in personalized cancer therapy”Manuela Zucknick, University of Oslo. Tuesday 02 October 2018, 15:30-16:30 BSU Seminar: "Using Gaussian processes to model branching dynamics from single-cell data" (provisional)Prof. Magnus Rattray, University of Manchester. Tuesday 17 July 2018, 14:30-15:30 BSU Seminar: “Biomarker discovery through statistical signal processing and Bayesian modelling on large-scale quantitative proteomics data”Professor Andrew Dowsey, University of Bristol. Thursday 14 June 2018, 14:30-15:30 BSU Seminar: "Mass spectrometry-based proteomics: challenges and opportunities"Dr Laurent Gatto, University of Cambridge . Thursday 07 June 2018, 14:30-15:30 BSU Seminar: "Optimal bootstrapping with dependent data"Prof Alastair Young, Imperial College London. Tuesday 29 May 2018, 14:30-15:30 BSU Seminar: “Cox-process representation and inference for stochastic reaction-diffusion processes”Dr Guido Sanguinetti, University of Edinburgh. Thursday 10 May 2018, 14:30-15:30 BSU Seminar: “Exchangeable Random Measures for Sparse and Modular Graphs with Overlapping Communities”Prof. François Caron, University of Oxford. Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:30-15:30 BSU Seminar: “Bayesian adaptive designs for Phase III trials”Dr. Liz Ryan, University of Warwick. Thursday 05 April 2018, 14:30-15:30 BSU Seminar: “Quasi Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods”Dr. Ben Calderhead, Imperial College London. Tuesday 20 February 2018, 14:30-15:30 Continuous inference for aggregated point process dataDr Ben Taylor, University of Lancaster. Tuesday 21 November 2017, 14:30-15:30 Individual dynamic predictions using landmarking and joint modelling: validation of estimators and robustness assessmentDr Loic Ferrer, ISPED, Bordeaux. Tuesday 31 October 2017, 14:30-15:30 Extended multivariate generalised linear and non-linear mixed effect modelsDr Michael Crowther, University of Leicester. Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:30-15:30 Genome-wide epistasis in bacteria, new statistical tools and fresh biological insightProf Jukka Corander, University of Oslo. Tuesday 03 October 2017, 16:00-17:00 A Bayesian model-based approach to finding cell-type level associations in heterogeneous methylation samplesDaniel Kennedy, Queensland University of Technology. Thursday 14 September 2017, 14:30-15:30 Dirichlet Process Mixtures of Multivariate Skew t-distributions for Unsupervised Clustering of Cell Populations from Flow-Cytometry DataDr Boris Hejblum, University of Bordeaux. Tuesday 12 September 2017, 14:30-15:30 “Joint variational inference for genetic association studies with multiple outcomes”Hélène Ruffieux, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences. Tuesday 20 June 2017, 14:30-15:30 “The xyz algorithm for fast interaction search in high-dimensional data”Dr Rajen Shah, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 30 May 2017, 14:30-15:30 “Identifying and evaluating personalised treatment recommendations”Prof Richard Emsley, Centre for Biostatistics, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre. Tuesday 23 May 2017, 14:30-15:30 "The Analysis of Recurrent Events: A Summary of Methodology and Informative Censoring Considerations"Dr Jennifer Rogers, University of Oxford. Tuesday 28 March 2017, 14:30-15:30 CANCELLED - Identifying and evaluating personalised treatment recommendationsProf Richard Emsley, University of Manchester. Thursday 23 February 2017, 14:30-15:30 "Dynamic prediction of survival using landmarking in large healthcare databases, with an application in cystic fibrosis"Dr Ruth Keogh, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Thursday 19 January 2017, 14:30-15:30 “Statistical opportunities and challenges in observational health data: Addressing missingness using two-phase sampling for nonresponse: methods and benefits"Dr Matthew Sperrin, University of Manchester. Thursday 12 January 2017, 14:30-15:30 Provisional title: "Percentage study weights in meta-analysis and meta-regression"Professor Richard Riley, Keele University. Tuesday 13 December 2016, 14:30-15:30 "A Bayesian analysis of microbiome data"Dr Sergio Bacallado, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 29 November 2016, 14:30-15:30 "Breaking non-identifiability using genetic information : an application to metabolite data and gene expression"Benjamin Frot, University of Oxford. Tuesday 08 November 2016, 14:30-15:30 "The Analysis of Recurrent Events: A Summary of Methodology and Informative Censoring Considerations"Dr Jennifer Rogers, University of Oxford. Tuesday 18 October 2016, 14:30-15:30 "Addressing missingness using two-phase sampling for nonresponse: methods and benefits"Dr Nanhua Zhang, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Friday 09 September 2016, 14:30-15:30 "A non-stationary Bayesian model for across-site heterogeneity in molecular phylogenetics"Dr Sarah Heaps, University of Newcastle. Tuesday 05 July 2016, 14:30-15:30 "Exploring dependence between categorical variables: Benefits and limitations of using variable selection within Bayesian clustering in relation to searching for interactions"Dr Michail Papathomas, University of St Andrews. Tuesday 07 June 2016, 14:30-15:30 "Modelling the evolution of brain signals"Dr Mark Fiecas, University of Warwick. Tuesday 24 May 2016, 14:30-15:30 "Improved ranking and selection for large-scale inference"Prof Michael Newton, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tuesday 10 May 2016, 14:30-15:30 "The analysis of variance and the analysis of causes"Prof Neil Pearce, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Tuesday 03 May 2016, 14:30-15:30 "Some aspects in high-dimensional Bayesian model choice"Dr David Rossell, University of Warwick. Tuesday 26 April 2016, 14:30-15:30 "Better prediction by use of co-data: Adaptive group-regularized ridge regression"Dr Mark van de Wiel, VU University Medical Center and VU university, Amsterdam. Tuesday 22 March 2016, 14:30-15:30 "Design for ABC and history matching with Gaussian processes"Dr Richard Wilkinson, Sheffield University. Tuesday 01 March 2016, 14:30-15:30 "The Implications of Differential Clustering for the Analysis of Binary Outcome Measures"Dr Chris Roberts, University of Manchester. Tuesday 23 February 2016, 14:30-15:30 "Understanding the role of secondary outcomes in multivariate meta-analysis"Professor John Copas, University of Warwick. Tuesday 09 February 2016, 14:30-15:30 "Genomic prediction of complex human traits: relatedness, trait architecture and predictive meta-models"Dr Athina Spiliopoulou University of Edinburgh. Tuesday 02 February 2016, 14:30-15:30 "An Unbiased and Scalable Monte Carlo Method for Bayesian Inference for Big Data"Dr Murray Pollock, University of Warwick. Tuesday 12 January 2016, 14:30-15:30 "Blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease & Temporal Clustering of biological, medical and wearable data"Dr Steven Kiddle MRC SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Tuesday 08 December 2015, 14:30-15:30 Title TBCProf Walter Gregory, Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Leeds. Tuesday 03 November 2015, 14:30-15:30 MRC Centenary Lecture: Putting life into numbers - how statistical science has transformed health careA summer reception to follow Professor David J. Spiegelhalter OBE FRS. Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. Thursday 20 June 2013, 18:30-19:30 Phase II/III clinical trials: Recent developments in methodology for trial design and analysisSue Todd, University of Reading. Tuesday 18 June 2013, 14:30-15:30 MRC Centenary Lecture: What's happening to the world?Professor Sir John Beddington FRS FRSE. Babbage Lecture Theater - New Museums Site. Tuesday 28 May 2013, 17:30-18:30 MRC Centenary Lecture: Numbers are weapons: a self defence guideTim Harford, of More or Less. Babbage Lecture Theater - New Museums Site. Wednesday 22 May 2013, 17:30-18:30 Semi Markov models under panel observationAndrew Titman, University of Lancaster. Tuesday 14 May 2013, 14:30-15:30 Causal mediation analysis with multiple mediatorsRhian Daniel, LSHTM. Tuesday 30 April 2013, 14:30-15:30 MRC Centenary Lecture: Failings in hierarchies of evidence for controversial health-policy decisionsProfessor Sir Michael Rawlins, of NICE. Babbage Lecture Theater - New Museums Site. Monday 29 April 2013, 17:30-18:30 Large sample results for tiny significance levelsProfessor Kenneth Rice, University of Washington. Monday 29 April 2013, 11:00-12:30 Scalable network modelling for personalized medicineSach Mukherjee, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI). Tuesday 23 April 2013, 14:00-15:00 Signal Identification for Rare and Weak Features: Higher Criticism or False Discovery RatesProf. Korbinian Strimmer, University of Leipzig. Monday 08 April 2013, 14:00-15:00 Statistical inference of virus phylodynamicsOliver Ratmann, Imperial College London. Tuesday 12 March 2013, 14:30-15:30 Haplotype sharing and time to common ancestor: resolving various genetics problems including the studies of rare variants and disease susceptibility variantsDr Augustine Kong, deCODE genetics. Friday 01 March 2013, 10:30-11:30 Conditional Density Estimation through Enriched Dirichlet Process Mixture ModelsSara Wade, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 05 February 2013, 14:30-15:30 Causal inference and stratified medicine: an illustration of trial designs incorporating biomarker information for mechanisms evaluationRichard Emsley, University of Manchester. Tuesday 22 January 2013, 14:30-15:30 Generating partially synthetic data to protect confidentiality in survey microdataRobin Mitra, University of Southampton. Tuesday 27 November 2012, 14:30-15:30 Dimension reduction based on sliced inverse regression (SIR): a look at the special case when n ‹pJérôme Saracco, Bordeaux Institute of Technology & Bordeaux Institute of Mathematics (Probability and Statistics team). Tuesday 20 November 2012, 14:30-15:30 Bayesian hierarchical models and recent computational development using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation, with applications to pre-implantation genetic screening in IVFGianluca Baio, University College, London. Tuesday 16 October 2012, 14:30-15:30 Mendelian Randomization: the next ten years?Professor George Davey-Smith, University of Bristol. Thursday 11 October 2012, 12:00-13:00 Predictive analytic modelling in clinical trials (patient recruitment, randomization and drug supply)Vladimir Anisimov, Qunitiles. Tuesday 09 October 2012, 14:30-15:30 Modelling heterogeneity in gene expression using the matrix-variate normal distributionAnestis Touloumis, EBI, Cambridge. Tuesday 02 October 2012, 14:30-15:30 Modelling the growth and transmission of infectious disease by linking epidemiology and population geneticsDaniel Wilson, University of Oxford. Tuesday 18 September 2012, 14:30-15:30 Optimal data combination in seamless Phase II/III clinical trialsLisa Hampson, Lancaster University.. Tuesday 19 June 2012, 11:00-12:30 Congenial multiple imputation of partially observed covariates within the full conditional specification frameworkJonathan Bartlett, LSHTM.. Tuesday 15 May 2012, 14:30-15:30 Setting sample size for common designs when evaluating interventions and biomarkersNote the earlier than usual start time Professor Toby Prevost, Kings College London. Tuesday 24 April 2012, 14:00-15:00 How to use simulation studies in understanding and evaluating statistical methodsIan White, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge. Tuesday 20 March 2012, 14:30-15:30 Some thoughts on multi-parameter evidence synthesisMr. Guobing Lu, University of Bristol. Tuesday 28 February 2012, 14:30-15:30 Latent Mixture Quantile Regression for Longitudinal DataDr. Bo Fu, School of Community-Based Medicine, University of Manchester. Tuesday 14 February 2012, 14:30-15:30 Which survival model? Model selection and model averaging issues for analysis of survival and event history dataProf. Nils Hjort, Department of Mathmatics, University of Oslo, Norway. Tuesday 17 January 2012, 14:30-15:30 Design and Analysis of Multi-Arm, Multi-Stage Clinical StudiesDr. Thomas Jaki, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University. Tuesday 06 December 2011, 14:30-15:30 Assessment of Trend in Recurrent Event ProcessesProfessor Jerry Lawless, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada. Tuesday 08 November 2011, 14:30-15:30 Modelling the transmission of Clostridium difficile in hospitalsDr Madeleine Cule, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. Tuesday 18 October 2011, 14:30-15:30 Statistical Software at the Centre for Multilevel ModellingProfessor William J. Browne, School of Clinical Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol. Tuesday 27 September 2011, 14:30-15:30 The Natural History and Predictive Factors of Long Term Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Analysis from the Hopkins Lupus CohortPenny Watson, School of Health and Related Research, The University of Sheffield. Tuesday 14 June 2011, 14:30-15:30 Assessing surrogacy using linear mixed models and the surrogate threshold effectDr. Sally Galbraith, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of New South Wales, Australia. Tuesday 07 June 2011, 14:30-15:30 Experience and challenges of applying Bayesian methods in food safety risk assessmentsDr. Marc Kennedy, The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera), Risk and Numerical Sciences (RANS) team. Tuesday 17 May 2011, 14:30-15:30 Patterns of vulnerability in pregnancy and early childhood: Measurement, interactions, effect moderation and random coefficients in latent variable modelsAndrew Pickles, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London. Tuesday 05 April 2011, 14:30-15:30 Sensitivity of parameter estimates of marginal and random-effects models to missing dataRumana Omar, Department of Statistical Science, UCL. Tuesday 15 March 2011, 14:30-15:30 A Causal Diagram Approach to Evidence SynthesisIan Shrier, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Canada. Tuesday 22 February 2011, 14:30-15:30 Dropouts in the AB/BA crossover designJohn Matthews, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University. Tuesday 15 February 2011, 14:30-15:30 Spatial prediction in the presence of positional errorThomas Fanshawe, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University. Tuesday 30 November 2010, 14:30-15:30 Modelling Relative Survival: Flexible Parametric Models and the Estimation of Net and Crude MortalityPaul Lambert, Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Leicester. Tuesday 16 November 2010, 14:30-15:30 The competing explanations: Frailty or individual development? Examples from cancer and from network theoryOdd Aalen, Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo. Tuesday 02 November 2010, 14:30-15:30 Modeling longitudinal observations with excess zeros and measurement error, with application to nutritional epidemiologyVictor Kipnis, National Cancer Institute, US. Thursday 21 October 2010, 14:30-15:30 Badger culling to control bovine TB - its potential role in a science-led policyChristl Donnelly, Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College, London. Tuesday 19 October 2010, 14:30-15:30 Model-based cluster analysis for structured dataSabine Landau, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. Monday 28 June 2010, 14:30-15:30 Modelling health scores with the multivariate skew normalJane Hutton, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick. Tuesday 22 June 2010, 14:30-15:30 Harnessing social networks for HIV surveillanceSimon Frost, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 11 May 2010, 14:30-15:30 A flexible regression approach using GAMLSSMikis Stasinopoulos, London Metropolitan University. Tuesday 20 April 2010, 14:30-15:30 Some issues for causal inference in observational epidemiologyNuala Sheehan, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester. Tuesday 16 March 2010, 11:00-12:00 Regret-regression for optimal dynamic treatment regimesRobin Henderson, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Newcastle. Tuesday 23 February 2010, 14:30-15:30 Modelling the association between patient characteristics and the change over time in a disease measure using observational cohort dataAndrew Copas, Centre for sexual health & HIV research, UCL. Tuesday 19 January 2010, 14:30-15:30 Emulation of random output (stochastic) models: theory and applicationDan Cornford, Non-linearity and Complexity Research Group, Aston University. Tuesday 01 December 2009, 14:30-15:30 Generalized estimating equations for censored dataDaniel Farewell, Cardiff University. Tuesday 10 November 2009, 14:30-15:30 The Value for Medical and Public Health Decisions of Adding Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Data to a Model for Breast Cancer RiskMitch Gail, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, USA. Tuesday 03 November 2009, 14:30-15:30 Estimation of time to pregnancy from current duration dataNiels Keiding, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen. Tuesday 27 October 2009, 14:30-15:30 A Bayesian dose-escalation procedure for phase I/II clinical trialsJohn Whitehead, Lancaster University. Tuesday 20 October 2009, 14:30-15:30 Generalized Multilevel Functional RegressionAna-Maria Staicu, University of Bristol. Tuesday 09 June 2009, 14:30-15:30 The use of baseline covariates in cross-over studiesMike Kenward, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Tuesday 19 May 2009, 14:30-15:30 Individual Prediction in Prostate Cancer Studies Using a Joint Longitudinal-Survival ModelJeremy Taylor, University of Michigan. Monday 27 April 2009, 14:30-15:30 Hypothesis testing and estimation in a group sequential phase II/III clinical trialNigel Stallard, University of Warwick. Tuesday 10 March 2009, 14:30-15:30 Lessons from livestock - some things animal movements can tell us about social networks in epidemiologyRowland Kao, University of Glasgow. Tuesday 24 February 2009, 14:30-15:30 Estimating the impact of school closure on influenza transmission from sentinel dataSimon Cauchemez, Imperial College London. Tuesday 27 January 2009, 14:30-15:30 The Error Statistical PhilosophyProfessor Deborah G. Mayo, Department of Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Tuesday 09 December 2008, 14:30-16:30 Bayesian meta-analysis of genetic association studies using StataJohn Thompson, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester. Tuesday 02 December 2008, 14:30-15:30 Modeling relationships between food intakes and health-related outcomes: zero-inflated data subject to measurement errorLaurence Freedman, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Sheba Medical Center, Israel. Tuesday 11 November 2008, 14:30-15:30 Multiply robust estimation of statistical interaction parametersStijn Vansteelandt, University of Ghent, Belgium. Tuesday 21 October 2008, 14:30-15:30 Transdimensional sampling algorithms for Bayesian variable selection in classification problems with many more variables than observationsJim Griffin, University of Kent. Tuesday 14 October 2008, 14:30-15:30 Hierarchical Evolutionary Stochastic Search with Adaptive ProposalsLeonardo Bottolo, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London. Tuesday 01 July 2008, 14:30-15:30 Epidemiological models for a Respondent Driven SampleMärt Möls, University of Tartu, Estonia. Tuesday 24 June 2008, 14:45-15:45 A parametric approach to modeling changes in general health and cognition: developing a stochastic model of agingArnold Mitnitski, PhD, Department of Medicine, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Wednesday 18 June 2008, 13:00-14:00 Structure Ranking and System Identification for Non-Linear Biochemical Process Models: Inferring the Structure of the ERK Pathway via Bayes FactorsMark Girolami, University of Glasgow. Tuesday 10 June 2008, 14:30-15:30 Focussed model selection and model averaging for the Cox regression modelGerda Claeskens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Tuesday 03 June 2008, 14:30-15:30 Dynamic predicting by landmarking as an alternative for multi-state modeling: an application to acute lymphoid leukemia dataHans van Houwelingen, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands. Tuesday 06 May 2008, 14:30-15:30 Issues and controversies in life course epidemiologyBianca De Stavola, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Tuesday 08 April 2008, 14:30-15:30 New copulae from an order-statistics approachRose Baker, University of Salford. Tuesday 11 March 2008, 14:30-15:30 The evolution and adaptation of HIV-1 virulenceChristophe Fraser, Imperial College London. Tuesday 12 February 2008, 14:30-15:30 Bayesian variable selection in generalized linear models under cost constraintsDavid Draper, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. Friday 08 February 2008, 14:15-15:00 Graphical models for causal reasoning in epidemiologyVanessa Didelez, University of Bristol. Tuesday 15 January 2008, 14:30-15:30 Building Models of Juvenile Salmon DemographyPaul Birrell, MRC Biostatistics Unit. Monday 17 December 2007, 14:30-15:30 Non-ignorable missing data in parametric survival modelsKatherine Boyd, MRC Clinical Trials Unit. Tuesday 11 December 2007, 14:30-15:30 Work in progress on the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care database: I modelling mortality using random effects regression, and II the development of quantitative indices reflecting provider 'process-of-care'Patty Solomon, Univerisity of Adelaide. Monday 12 November 2007, 14:30-15:30 What is the deviance information criterion?Martyn Plummer, International Agency for Research on Cancer. Thursday 25 October 2007, 14:00-15:00 Online inference and prediction for infectious diseases: a case study in Avian InfluenzaGareth Roberts, University of Warwick. Tuesday 16 October 2007, 14:30-15:30 Efficient Bayesian Segmentation of DNA dataPaul Fearnhead, University of Lancaster. Tuesday 25 September 2007, 14:30-15:30 Graphical Data and Data Graphics in RPaul Murrell, University of Auckland. Thursday 12 July 2007, 11:30-12:30 Identifying true positive associations in genome-wide association studiesJenny Barrett, University of Leeds. Tuesday 10 July 2007, 14:30-15:30 The Reporting of Associations in Genome-Wide StudiesJon Wakefield, University of Washington. Monday 09 July 2007, 14:30-15:30 Inference for binary Markov random fields without tears (or MCMC).Nial Friel, University of Glasgow. Tuesday 05 June 2007, 14:30-15:30 Representing uncertainty in numerical climate modelsNadja Leith, UCL. Tuesday 22 May 2007, 14:30-15:30 Joint modelling of competing risks of drug withdrawal and quality of life in epilepsy trials.Paula Williamson, Centre for Medical Statistics and Health Evaluation, University of Liverpool. Tuesday 17 April 2007, 14:30-15:30 Models for baseline and treatment effects in meta-analysisTony Ades, University of Bristol. Tuesday 27 March 2007, 14:30-15:30 Bayesian inference for stochastic epidemic models in structured populations based on final outcome dataPhilip O'Neill, University of Nottingham. Tuesday 20 February 2007, 14:30-15:30 Medical statistics: A little bit of historyVern Farewell and Tony Johnson, MRC Biostatistics Unit. Tuesday 16 January 2007, 14:30-15:30 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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